Ancient Werewolf: Who Is the Impostor?

Sharp, rational, resilient, sharp-tongued heroine x outwardly cold but warm-hearted, upright hero (Another upcoming novel is listed at the end. Please add it to your reading list〰️)

Good news: Yao Panzhi wakes up to find herself in the body of a wealthy young lady.

Bad news: Heaven says there's an undercover transmigrator in the Ministry of Justice who plans to kill the emperor and alter history.

Even worse news: A red countdown line circles her elbow. If it disappears before she catches the culprit, she'll never be able to go home!

To get home, she joins the selection for female officials and enters the Ministry of Justice, only to hit a wall on her very first day.

Her superior, Lu Haici, scoffs. "You asked your father to arrange special treatment? You may leave."

Yao Panzhi fires back. "My anonymous exam paper caught the examiners' attention! Asked my father? Sir, have you never heard of impartiality?"

Lu Haici's expression darkens.

Yao Panzhi presses her advantage. "Solving cases takes skill! You're jumping to conclusions. You're eight feet tall and handsome. Could it be that you rely on that face to uphold your official authority?"

"You!"

The whole room falls silent. She wins.

Yao Panzhi isn't just good at arguing. She also has a solid grasp of forensic investigation. Her knowledge of trace evidence and crime-scene reconstruction leaves the officials speechless, and even earns her superior Lu Haici's respect.

The two gradually join forces to solve cases. Yao Panzhi investigates openly while secretly searching for the culprit.

But why does everyone in the Ministry of Justice seem like the undercover agent she's looking for...

She sets one trap after another to test them, but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she imagined...

[Reading Guide]

✓ The bonds between female officials: Women helping women is always moving!

✓ Plot-driven wish fulfillment: Both leads have no prior romantic experience + HE

✓ Dense foreshadowing, fast-paced plot, and twists in the truth

✓ Fictional dynasty. Not recommended for readers who expect historical accuracy.

Here are the full blurbs for the two upcoming novels.

Upcoming novel 1: "I'll Clean Up After My Clients' Ancestors" Please add it to your reading list〰️

[Money-loving, street-smart heroine x determined, scheming hero]

Lin Chuci runs a cause-and-effect aftercare agency.

The past causes the present, and the present becomes the past's consequence. Her modern clients keep seeing ghosts, going mad, or dying young, all because of the karmic debts their ancestors incurred: seeing ghosts because their ancestors robbed tombs, going mad because their ancestors seized family fortunes, dying young because their ancestors massacred entire cities...

She transmigrates to the past again and again, rewriting her clients' ancestors' lives and giving her modern clients a chance at a new beginning.

So she only cares about two things:

Money and other people's ancestors.

She doesn't know that, as she transmigrates over and over, she is also recovering her memories and her own karmic ties.

There's only one problem: every time she transmigrates, she runs into the same man, Song Chi of the Great Ning Dynasty.

And all her clients' ancestors happen to be in the Great Ning Dynasty.

Song Chi is different ages in different years, but he always finds a way to oppose her!

One time, she plans to bury her client's ancestor's ill-gotten wealth, intending to dig it up after returning to the present. But twenty-five-year-old Song Chi catches her in the act. "Miss Lin, we meet again."

"...What a coincidence." Lin Chuci smiles brightly on the outside, while gritting her teeth behind her back.

That jinx again!

Song Chi raises an eyebrow and points behind her. "What are you hiding back there?"

Reluctantly, she brings out a chest of gold and silver. "I was just about to turn it in to the authorities. It's just that you always show up at the perfect moment... Someone might think you're following me, Young Master Song."

Song Chi stands with his arms crossed, wearing a knowing smile. "Take it all out. The things in your sleeves, the things in your hair, and, oh yes, the stash in your shoes, too."

Lin Chuci can no longer keep smiling.

She slowly pulls a pair of gold pendants from her sleeves, plucks five silver hairpins from her bun, and finally hands over the jade beads hidden in her shoes.

Song Chi, just you wait!

On her final transmigration, the day her client's ancestor intends to massacre a city, thirty-year-old Song Chi stands facing her, sword in hand. "Lin Chuci, you've changed so many people's fates, but you don't know that everything began with you."

Arrows streak through the sky like streams of light, falling in a glittering rain.

It turns out none of their encounters were coincidences.

They were a karmic bond Song Chi had held onto for his whole life, waiting from youth to middle age and never letting go.

Upcoming novel 2: "The Succession Struggle, but My Rivals Are Qin Shi Huang and Empress Wu" Please add it to your reading list〰️

The heroine transmigrates into the body of Shen Caohuang, a low-ranking retainer in the Duke of Dingguo's household in the Great Ning Dynasty, after the original Shen Caohuang dies of illness.

She discovers that the princes and princesses here are actually historical figures such as Ying Zheng, Wu Zhao, and Gao Yang. Their appearance, personalities, intelligence, and even names are all similar to their historical counterparts. The only difference is that they have no memory of ever being emperors, though as princes and princesses, they all aspire to reach the top.

The heroine concludes that she's transmigrated into a fictional dynasty where three emperors have been reborn. Using her identity as the original Shen Caohuang, she moves among them, watching and placing her bets. She weighs the emperor's will, the ministers' opinions, and the people's sentiment (the readers') to decide who will ultimately rise above the rest, and whom she should support as the greatest emperor of all.

Shen Caohuang places bet after bet, changes her picks, and supports and even betrays them!

Ying Zheng: The First Emperor. Shen Caohuang: I believe in you!

Wu Zhao: The only female emperor. Shen Caohuang: Empress Wu can do it!

Gao Yang: A bloodthirsty tyrant. Shen Caohuang: A wild card? I'll double my bet!

Three emperors battle for supremacy. Who will be the ultimate emperor of emperors?

But as Shen Caohuang's power grows, so does her ambition. Everyone thinks she's only the lowest-ranking retainer,

Until she takes a seat at the table herself.

If you've all got experience being emperors, serving as ministers should be no problem. All you emperors, bow down and become my subjects!

Theme: Use modern knowledge to solve ancient cases and unite women's strength to protect the right course of history.