Divination Q&A: Tracking a Mystery Case [Criminal Investigation]

In 2015, Pei Qing had just graduated and was still struggling to make ends meet as an artist. Taking her friends' and family's advice, she started livestreaming her drawing to earn some extra money. She was lucky. On her first day of streaming, her long, graceful fingers attracted a crowd of fans who couldn't get enough of her hands. Pei Qing encouraged herself: at least it was a good start. She stuck to her streaming style of showing only her hands, never her face, and never speaking, and began her career as a livestreaming artist. But gradually, she realized something was off about her drawings. It seemed her art concealed secrets unknown to the world. * In 2015, a strange and extraordinary fortune-teller suddenly appeared online. All a client had to do was explain what they wanted to know. The fortune-teller would light a special incense, pick up her brush, and start painting. The answer they sought would appear in the picture. A child who had been missing for ten years appeared in the painting as a teenager. A client asking about their exam results saw a failing grade on the report card. Anxious parents looking for their runaway daughter saw nothing but a large suitcase, with traces of blood on the outside. Whether clients praised or cursed her, the fortune-teller accepted it all without arguing. But her predictions all came true. More and more people became her admirers, and before long, she had drawn the attention of many different groups. What no one knew was that, besides being a remarkable fortune-teller, Pei Qing had another identity: a specially recruited talent of Department X. And so began her double life, telling fortunes online and solving crimes in person. The author's completed novel of a similar genre is The Livestream Call Connected Me to a Dead Person. Check it out in the author's collection if you're interested. Theme: Punish evil and promote good.