I Opened a Scripted Murder Mystery Inn in Ancient Times

My upcoming novel, The White Moonlight Goes on a Rampage, is introduced at the very bottom.

Rookie policewoman Zhao Yiran transmigrated one day and became the proprietress of a supposedly haunted inn in Yejing.

At home, her drunken father was a gambling addict who was drowning in debt and constantly plotting to get his hands on her dowry.

Outside, there was a gambling den owner who lusted after her beauty and was determined to sell her to a brothel.

There was Auntie Wang, who claimed to have her best interests at heart but kept trying to marry her off to a lame scholar.

And there was the owner of the inn across the street, who coveted her beauty, secretly played tricks on her, and schemed to marry her as his concubine...

How could Zhao Yiran put up with any of that?

First, she'd drag out the owner of the inn across the street, who was hiding in a dark corner pretending to be a ghost. You want a concubine? I'll make sure you don't even have a wife!

Next, the arrogant gambling den owner. You want me in a brothel making money for you? I'll make sure you can't even keep your gambling den open!

And then there's my dear father and Auntie Wang...

What? You're quitting gambling? You're done trying to marry me off?

Well, what did you expect to gamble with when your gambling den is gone?

Oh, right, I forgot: the owner of the inn across the street's legal wife is you, Auntie Wang!

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Everyone says there's a peerlessly beautiful young woman in Yejing who opened the first-ever murder mystery role-playing inn. It's been so wildly popular that nothing before or since has come close.

Whenever visitors arrive after hearing the rumors, they always complain, “It's all marketing! I've been here so many times, and I've never once seen the legendary beautiful proprietress!”

The die-hard murder mystery fans have something to say about that. “What do you know? To find us unique scripts, Miss Zhao braves every danger and personally helps solve the Dali Temple's unsolved and cold cases. She travels far and wide, sparing no effort...”

Hearing this while she lounged in Fang Jinghan's arms, acting coy and demanding, Zhao Yiran was baffled. “?”

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Financial star Fang Jinghan transmigrated and became a Deputy Minister of the Dali Temple in the capital, tasked with investigating a number of old and unsolved cases.

While investigating cases and pondering how to return to the modern world, Fang Jinghan never expected to run into his ex-girlfriend, whom he had broken up with more than a year ago.

And wouldn't you know it, his ex-girlfriend greeted him using the exact same line she'd used when she first hit on him...

Fang Jinghan was furious. Gritting his teeth, he asked, “Zhao Yiran, aren't you tired of this past-life-and-present-life routine yet?”

Reader's guide:

1. Both the hero and heroine transmigrate, and their relationship gets a second chance.

2. Each achievement point corresponds to a script. When the heroine unlocks an achievement point, she receives a new script.

3. Each script corresponds to a real case. The scripts and cases progress together in the story, so there's no foreknowledge.

4. The entire story is told from the heroine's perspective, so there are twists later on.

The White Moonlight Goes on a Rampage

In an age of chaos across the Nine Provinces, demons and monsters ran rampant, and the gods sent down heavenly tribulations to punish the world.

To save all living beings, Shen Muqing faced the rolling thunder alone. She died in her prime, becoming the undisputed, irreplaceable white moonlight of the entire cultivation world.

Yet not even a hundred years later, whenever anyone mentioned Shen Muqing, people would say, “I've never heard of her.”

Shen Muqing assumed people were simply forgetful and paid it no mind. That is, until her once-steady, gentle, and refined fiancé, an immortal lord, betrayed his sect for a demoness and handed the world she had died to protect over to the demons...

Shen Muqing could take no more. She was so furious that she forced herself back to life.

But before killing her ungrateful ex-fiancé, Shen Muqing had something even more important to do: kill her junior apprentice brother, who had stolen her corpse and shown the utmost disrespect to her body!

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Yan Zhao's original name was Yan Shi, with the character for “loss.”

When his master found him and brought him to the sect, his senior apprentice sister Shen Muqing thought the name was too unlucky and changed one character, naming him Zhao.

From that day on, Shen Muqing shone into Yan Zhao's heart like a ray of light.

But Yan Zhao knew he was no good. He didn't deserve the name his senior sister had given him, let alone his senior sister herself.

While his senior sister was alive, Yan Zhao did his utmost to play the obedient junior apprentice brother Shen Muqing expected him to be, but she never paid him any special attention.

After his senior sister died, Yan Zhao hid her body in his room, dressing and grooming her every day while confessing his years of love...

Then, one day, his senior sister suddenly woke up and declared that she would kill him with her own hands!

Yan Zhao didn't resist. To die by his senior sister's sword was a great honor.

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After plunging her sword into her junior apprentice brother's chest, Shen Muqing smelled an irresistible fragrance. Unable to control herself, she reached out and wiped up the blood running down the blade, then licked the blood from her fingertips.

How fragrant!

As if bewitched, Shen Muqing looked at her junior apprentice brother with an almost lovestruck gaze. A surging emotion welled up inexplicably in her heart, crying out wildly in her mind: I love A-Zhao, and A-Zhao loves me too...

As her consciousness faded, Shen Muqing heard her junior apprentice brother say, “The love worm has been planted!”

Theme: The net of heaven is vast