The Crane's Cry in Jade Capital

The new wuxia mystery, Sword Across the Bright Moon, is now available to read! · To avoid major spoilers affecting everyone’s reading experience, the comment section is now closed. Thank you, dears, for supporting the official release. The heroine: Bo Ruoyou lost both her parents when she was five. Her uncles brought in a Taoist priest to read her fortune. He declared that she was a bringer of misfortune who had caused her parents’ deaths, and that she had the look of someone who would die before turning eighteen. Claiming they wanted to change her fate, her uncles drove her out of the family home. After she left, they seized her property and stole her engagement. They took everything and waited for her to die at eighteen. They waited and waited. Before Bo Ruoyou even turned eighteen, word of her skill at performing autopsies and examining bones had already spread throughout Jiangnan. The powerful called on her to make the dead speak, and lords and princes begged her to clear the names of the living. And behind her stood a man who struck terror into the entire Great Zhou dynasty. The hero: He commands the Embroidered Uniform Guard and oversees the Court of Judicial Review. Though the ruthless and volatile Huo Weilou wields power over the whole court, he has nothing but contempt for women. So when he first meets Bo Ruoyou, despite her official family background and peerless beauty, he despises her as if she were beneath his notice. But then he watches her delicate hands examine a woman in red who has been murdered, solve a case of a ghost killing people, and uncover an old injustice... Huo Weilou: I take it all back. This is so damn good! - Mystery and investigations first, sweet romance, devoted to each other, happy ending - Entirely fictional setting, research-heavy, anti-piracy measures in place. No historical nitpicking or digging into the author’s personal life. - Author’s Weibo: @Bo Yue Qi Yan Theme: Even the humblest person can judge cases and right wrongs. Evil will always be punished.