[A Northern Song mystery, political intrigue, and case-solving drama] Also known as [A Little Bitter Melon's Tale of Banding Together to Survive] or [The Mouse Falls for the Cat]
With the True Emperor on the throne, he promoted moral education, enforced the law, and especially despised anything that misled people's hearts or harmed the people's livelihood.
Yet strange cases kept appearing in the capital, Dongjing, and rumors ran rampant.
The Imperial City Bureau established its Seventy-Second Division, recruiting people of talent and unusual ability to solve the most extraordinary cases throughout the realm.
That is the official version.
In reality, what everyone else saw was this:
An inexperienced division chief leading a group of good-for-nothing teammates: people with criminal records, people with something wrong with their heads, women who looked like men, men who looked like women, and one little child.
"Step down! Step down!"
"My adoptive father is the current Vice Director of the Bureau of Military Affairs, Lord Wang."
"...Sorry to bother you."
The cases still had to be investigated.
A hall burned during the Buddha's birthday celebration, an immortal ascending in a ghost market, a flower house open day and night, a fire in the imperial palace, the hat demon of Xijing, a witchcraft fetus in Huangzhou, and a ghost city in Suizhou
They pretended to be supernatural, killed in the name of "rumors," wielded superstition as a weapon, and used people's hearts as pawns.
Six people make a division. Point them at a target, and they'll get to work.
Together, they're a blazing fire. Apart, they each return to their own prison...
See how the little bitter melon heroine, abandoned at the crime scene, stirs up trouble within the system.
P.S. This story has no supernatural elements. The Master didn't discuss strange forces and spirits!
Theme: When everyone wants to put out the fire, I alone will hold it high.
