Also known as The Wordless Fragment: Solving Cases in the Jianghu Through Autopsies
On a rainy night in Linhe Town, his adoptive father disappears and seven people are found dead.
The young Shen Yan pulls half a cloud-patterned bronze token and a wordless scroll fragment from beneath the third floorboard. The fragment teaches no divine arts and grants no lucky breaks. At the brink of life and death, it offers only a vague clue.
An old case involving an entire family’s murder leads to military records from the Northern Camp, the Longevity Apothecary, the remnants of the Cloud Garments, and a face-changing impostor hidden deep in the jianghu.
He examines wounds, identifies poisons, and follows clues to break the case. Armed with a wooden sword, he ventures into a ghost ship, an apothecary, a hanging coffin, and a mountain gate in the snow.
The most terrifying thing in the jianghu has never been ghosts.
It’s people turning the living into evidence and writing lies about the dead.
Shen Yan only wants to find his adoptive father. But he discovers that the scroll fragment that reveals no words is showing him a blood debt buried for fifteen years.
It looks good, hehe.