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Books by Cai Yuze
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The Coroner Clears the Wronged: The Strange Cases of Macheng 仵作洗冤：麻城诡案录
A decomposed corpse is found on a desolate stretch of land, and everyone says it is Mrs. Yang. Her husband, Tu Rusong, is convicted of killing and dumping his wife’s body. Beaten into a confession, he becomes the notorious wife-killer of Macheng. But Su Jianbai, a coroner who has lived in seclusion for years, examines the coffin and says just one thing: “This isn’t a woman.” With those words, the ironclad murder case cracks wide open on the spot. Then an even more terrifying truth emerges: The “
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The Coroner Clears the Innocent: The Strange Case of Macheng 2 仵作洗冤：麻城诡案录2
A woman’s corpse is pulled from an ancient well in Macheng. The authorities rule it a suicide by drowning, but coroner Su Jianbai finds three suspicious details: Mud beneath her fingernails, an injury behind her neck, and a strand of silvery gray caught in the soles of her shoes. Before her death, Liu had found an oilcloth bundle. Afterward, a warehouse clerk died suddenly, an old silversmith was brutally silenced, and a ten-year-old incense ledger from Bailong Temple resurfaced. There was no si
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A River of Heartfelt Affection 心意长河
Divine Fist Dai Erlü, whose twin mastiffs tested his boxing and brought the Shanxi merchants to heel; Li Luoneng, an outsider who studied for ten years and founded Xingyi. During the Kangxi and Qianlong eras, Dai Longbang braved wind and snow to seek a master and learn boxing, creating the Dai family’s Xinyi Boxing. From then on, the Dai family built its reputation on boxing and protected merchants with armed escorts. Its two great escort agencies, Guangsheng and Taifen, traveled the trade rout
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The Coroner Clears the Innocent: Case Files of Strange Happenings in Macheng 6 仵作洗冤：麻城诡案录6
Twenty years ago, on the road as refugees, Qiao gave her seven-year-old son, A-Dou, to people in a refugee shelter who claimed to be "a good family." They said they were taking him on as an apprentice, where he would have enough to eat. Before leaving, they even gave Qiao a small bag of rice. As the woman led A-Dou away, he kept looking back at his mother. Qiao never forgot that look, or how the woman held his hand and coaxed him: "I'll take you to see a big ship." Twenty years later, the bones
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Heart-Mind Fist Ablaze: A Garrison General’s Tale of Guarding the Floodwaters 心意拳火：挂印总兵守汛记
The Yellow River is about to flood, and the old levee is on the verge of collapse. Cao Jiwu came from Qiuzhi Hall, where he trained in boxing and toughened his body. After years of military service and posts away from home, he has now become a general charged with guarding the flood defenses. But what he guards along the river has never been just the water. There are also layers of officialdom, the accumulated ills of old cases, and people passing the blame. The old works at Dongwan are hollow a
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The Dead Men's Ledger on Page Seven 第七页死人账
On the day the Shen family cleared out their old warehouse, Xie Yunxiu found half a bloodstained scrap of paper buried in a pile of waste. When held up to a lamp, the scrap revealed words: it was a page from a ledger recording the dead. Names, times, causes of death, and destinations, all recorded with chilling precision. And this page was numbered seven. That same night, an old servant swallowed the paper and killed himself, a broker’s office went up in flames, and every witness to the ledger w
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The Yellow River Dragon Shadow Map 黄河龙影图
She was the only woman brave enough to run an escort route during Shanxi's worst drought. The Qiao family's treasure, an escort job forbidden to accept under three conditions, ambushes all along the way, and a government manhunt. Qin Sanniang took an arrow and stayed behind to hold them off, protecting the people, the water, and the cargo. She refused to take a single step back. Every night, the rosewood chest made the sound of water, as if a river had been sealed inside it. Only when the lid cr
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