(This is a fictional story set in an imaginary dynasty. There is no rule against royal consorts taking part in government.) I don't know how to continue, so I'm stopping here.
Princess Zhaohua, Shen Mingyuan, was frail from childhood and kept out of sight. People in the capital knew her only as a dignified, well-mannered darling of the emperor and empress. No one knew she had been born into this world carrying memories of her former life as a forensic examiner.
Xiao Yanci was born into a poor family, made a name for himself at a young age, and approached his work with cool-headed rigor, solving cases through fairness and evidence.
An imperial decree of marriage bound the two together.
When bodies began appearing in the willows along the riverbank outside the city, rumors spread that a water ghost was claiming lives. She happened to hear something that caught her attention and spotted a flaw in the story. He followed the evidence and dug deeper, exposing the real culprit behind it.
From then on, the two joined forces to solve one strange case after another:
Cries in the Embroidery House at midnight, as the shop owner's family of three die one after another: is it a vengeful ghost, or a cover-up?
A body burned in a room at an ancient monastery, while the abbot supposedly passes away after attaining enlightenment: was it a cultivation accident, or greed for wealth?
Bodies in the Grand Canal, a cursed ancient painting, a ghostly apparition at a deserted way station, a theater troupe haunted by spirits... More than a dozen murders disguised as supernatural incidents, each stripped of its ghostly trappings to reveal the greed, hatred, and delusion in the human heart.
