Thirteen years ago, Shen Zhiwei, a gifted young woman of the mystic arts, died in a sealing accident at the Fu family’s old estate. All she left behind was a copper bell that made no sound.
Thirteen years later, her daughter, Ye Qingyi, came down from the mountains.
In a Taoist robe, with her hair in a ponytail and three copper coins in hand, she was sharp-tongued and ruthless. Fortune-telling and face-reading started at three hundred, and she never gave credit for talismans or blessings.
Everyone thought she was a discarded daughter sent to marry into the Fu family and bring them good luck:
She was to wed Fu Hanting, the cold-faced, fearsome head of the Fu family, who supposedly wouldn’t live past thirty.
Only Ye Qingyi knew the truth: she was there to find out how her mother died.
She livestreamed fortune-telling and solved a case involving a sinister mirror that drained people’s essence on her very first day.
At a charity gala, she publicly put her snobbish stepsister in her place.
When she sneaked into the old estate’s sealing chamber at night, she found a woman in the mural with the very same face as hers.
Copper Coin Sprite One was greedy, Sprite Two was timid, and Sprite Three was a sharp-tongued gossip. Her livestream fans showered her with tips.
A mysterious account named “Watching the Game in Silence” warned her in secret. The spirit fox Liu Xuanyin had been sealed inside a painting for five hundred years.
Her second senior brother had spent two years investigating an illegal trade in forbidden arts, and the trail led straight to the Fu family.
A crescent-moon mark, an ill-fated bond with an ancient mirror, an underground seal, and a tablet granting eternal life…
Every clue pointed to someone known only as “Mister.”
Meanwhile, Fu Hanting quietly shielded her from three assassination attempts. When his cold poison flared, he clutched her wrist and said:
“Don’t be like her… Don’t jump.”
Ye Qingyi said, “Don’t worry, I’m tough to kill. Besides, you still owe me eight thousand taels in medical fees. Who’ll pay me if you die?”
Fu Hanting said, “…I’ll spend my whole life paying you back.”
