The Necromancer's Notebook (GL)

Main couple: A brilliant female detective with a knack for attracting trouble × the controlling, deceptively sweet-and-innocent Lord of the Dead (truly calm but pretending to be expressionless × truly scheming but pretending to be harmless)

Arrogance, envy, rage, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust: the seven original sins of humanity. From Notes on the Dead

A thousand years ago, the Seven Demon Kings of the Underworld broke free of their shackles and burst out of their seals. The immense energy tore a rift in the barrier between the human world and the Underworld, allowing countless spirits to flee into the human world and wreak havoc.

The Lord of the Dead used his own body to mend the rift, then tore the register containing information on every spirit, Notes on the Dead, into three pieces and sent them into the human world.

A thousand years later, by a twist of fate, the Lord of the Dead was reborn.

There is a small, ancestral wooden box in Yu Ci's home, sealed with a yellow talisman. It is a treasured family heirloom passed down from an ancestor of the Yu family centuries ago.

Yu Ci doesn't know what's inside. She only remembers her father's dying words: under no circumstances should she open the box.

She is a middle-school teacher in a small city, as well as the behind-the-scenes owner of a detective agency specializing in paranormal cold cases.

She also has a secret: she can see things ordinary people can't.

Reading guide:

1. A paranormal mystery with ghosts and spirits. Many elements are the author's own inventions.

2. Draws on the Western theological concept of the seven deadly sins.

3. Episodic story, mildly frightening.

4. This blurb was captured on 2021.01.16 and may be revised.

Theme: Keep the mirror free of dust, and evil cannot overcome good.