[Cross-Dressing Female Mechanism Expert x Imaginative Secretary]
Everyone in Chang'an says there are ghosts in this world.
A haunted mirror that shines on departed souls.
The river god demanding sacrifices at night.
A headless stranger entering an inn after dark.
A dead man wielding a brush to write a heavenly prophecy.
Demons, evil spirits, departed souls...
The gods and spirits are hard to trust, and the human heart is harder to fathom.
Shen Qingwu disguised herself as a man to enter the Imperial Observatory. All she wanted was to keep her identity hidden and coast along until retirement.
Then she met Du Yunheng, a man who seemed to be the nemesis of peace itself.
Wherever he went, strange cases followed. And wherever she went, he always dragged her back to investigate them.
Fortunately, she had studied mechanisms since childhood. She could unravel the uncanny and dismantle ingenious contraptions, always finding a way to crack the case.
Over time, Shen Qingwu rose from a low-ranking observatory official to become Lord Shen, someone everyone in Chang'an wanted to consult.
But stranger than the bizarre cases was Du Yunheng.
The way he looked at her grew increasingly peculiar, and his behavior toward her ever more unusual.
He interfered when she chatted with others, when she got even the slightest injury, and even seemed to take an extra look at whatever she wore.
Shen Qingwu could take no more.
"Lord Du, what exactly are you trying to do?"
Du Yunheng fell silent for a long moment.
He wished he knew.
Du Yunheng was the sharpest blade in the emperor's hand.
His father had died after being falsely accused, and his mother had passed away from illness. As a boy, he had made his way to Chang'an alone, seeking nothing but justice.
Later, he entered the Secretariat, investigating corrupt officials and interrogating rebels on the emperor's behalf.
Decisive and ruthless, he was feared by all.
The Jade-Faced King of Hell, renowned throughout Chang'an.
Yet this man, who could calculate everything, found that after meeting Shen Qingwu, he could neither see through her nor understand himself.
At last, one day, he couldn't help asking:
"Shen Qingwu! You master mechanisms, understand divination, and can read the heavens. Have you truly never cast a divination for your own heart?"
Shen Qingwu stared at him blankly.
"Everything's been going smoothly for me lately, and I have no worries. Why would I cast a reading for no reason?"
Du Yunheng: "..."
He suddenly realized that Shen Qingwu was the most unfathomable mystery in the world.
Theme: Seeking the truth about the world
[Cat's Claw] Great! It's self-rescue, Qing Wu Stick💪 [Cat's Claw] Damn it, why are there male protagonists everywhere [picking the brain]
[Cat's Claw] Dear, may I ask how this position is divided? Don't you feel that this Liu You is in charge of the Chang'an department? It feels like he is an official directly under the central government, while Shu is a county captain. Is it a bigger official? Why is Liu You so afraid of him? (I don't know the level of official positions and jurisdiction and scope of the Tang Dynasty. If you ask stupid questions, don't be angry.) [Cat Claw] I hope to see the heroine save herself. I don't know if she has any self-rescue measures. The main reason is that she just followed Liu You in without any restraint measures, which seemed a little uncautious.
[Cat's Claw] Hey, I thought the person who wanted to ask dad about the treasure yesterday and was suffocated to death was Liu Gong. So it wasn't him? [Cat Claw] I would like to ask if there are many emotional lines in this book? Also, in the eyes of others, the heroine is a man, and it's a bit strange for another man to stare at her entranced🤔
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