The Half-Demon Pavilion

Mystery and deduction | Case within a case | Cold-faced, adorable demon hunter × hot-blooded, shameless young lord | Love triangle drama

Yin Shi disguised herself as cargo and infiltrated the Qifeng Pavilion to hunt a face-peeling demon.

A folding fan wreathed in baleful flames flew past, burning away the demon’s false face.

The young man smiled with carefree confidence. “Do you like the face I gave you?”

She recognized him at a glance: Xuan Ce, the case officer of the Jing’an Bureau and the heir to the Prince of Lin’an.

The demon escaped Xuan Ce’s heavenly fire formation, and Yin Shi’s blood ran across the ground, flowing strangely toward the formation.

But the demon returned, all just to lick her blood.

A human body wrapped in skin, a demon’s heart slowly revealed. The first trace of a half-demon appeared in Jing’an.

Face-peeling, skinning, heart-swapping, life-borrowing. Every unsolved case in Jing’an pointed to one thing: half-demons.

Yin Shi had no idea what was hidden in her blood.

She also had no idea that Xuan Ce had been searching for her for ten years.

Detailed synopsis below. If you’d like to preserve the mystery, feel free to skip it.

On the surface, a string of demon-related cases was unfolding in Jing’an City:

Some victims had their faces peeled off, others had their hearts ripped out. Half-demons had infiltrated the crowds, while ghost soldiers lurked in the shadows.

A demon hunter named Yin Shi, who had come from the martial world, was drawn into one bizarre case after another.

But in reality, this was a scheme ten years in the making:

Demons were the bait. People were the players.

The Empress Dowager, the Imperial Preceptor, the princes, spies from Nanxing... Everyone was making a move in a much bigger game.

And Yin Shi was both a pawn and the one who would overturn the board.

She had forgotten her past and forgotten him.

He had remembered her for ten years, but when they finally reunited after so long, he didn’t dare acknowledge her.

“I told you, I don’t care whether you’re human or demon. You’re the only one I love.”

Love triangle dialogue

[Xuan Ce]

Xuan Ce: “That’s twice now. Is this how you treat the person who saved your life?”

Yin Shi: “I could’ve escaped without you.”

Xuan Ce: “Let’s see how long you can keep insisting on that.”

[Shen Jinghong]

Shen Jinghong: “If you can’t stay there any longer, tell me quickly, so I can bring you back to the manor sooner.”

Yin Shi: “Young Master Shen, you seem to know an awful lot about the Empress Dowager.”

Shen Jinghong: “Didn’t you already uncover my relationship with the Empress Dowager? Why ask when you already know? Are you trying to play hard to get?”

[Yin Jiu]

Yin Shi: “Whenever I got hurt, my big brother used to apply the medicine for me. No one else was as good at it. I used to tease you, saying that maybe being sick so often had made you an expert, so you knew exactly how to apply it without hurting me.”

Yin Jiu: “You still remember that?”

Yin Shi: “I do, but only in bits and pieces. I don’t remember how I got hurt, though.”

Reader’s Guide:

1. A fictional mystery-solving, demon-hunting story with a strong emphasis on suspense. The romance may develop slowly.

2. The hero appears in Chapter Three.

3. The cases are all fictional and have no specific real-world basis. Each case is connected to the others.

4. Feel free to save this story for later! It’s especially satisfying to read all the cases in one go once the story is complete!

Screenshot dated March 14, 2026

Theme: Only I can decide who I am.