I'll continue writing somewhere else. May Laotiannai bless me.
"A case can be investigated in a down-to-earth way, but you can't take it down to the underworld."
"What if I came from the underworld?"
In her previous life, Bo Gantang was executed for a wrongful conviction. Clutching her head, she went to the underworld to protest her innocence. By a twist of fate, Judge Lu guided her into becoming a deity. During her cultivation, she traveled through the human world, doing good deeds, building merit, and broadening her horizons. Then she came across a wrongful case: a woman named Du Wenniang had been convicted and sentenced to death by a thousand cuts. Gantang tried to challenge the verdict in court but was thrown into prison. Meanwhile, the case file containing the verdict in Du Wenniang's case had reached the hands of the Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review for examination. To avoid breaking the laws of Heaven by using divine power to interfere in mortal affairs, Gantang decided to join forces with the Assistant Minister and oversee the mortals as they solved the case by mortal means. As the investigation deepened, Gantang discovered that the demon realm was stirring and the devil realm was watching them like a tiger stalking its prey. Meanwhile, the mortal Assistant Minister she had intended to use had already lost two fiancées, one after another, to untimely deaths. With so many suspicious details, what conspiracy would come to light?
A small underworld deity sworn to solve wrongful cases teams up with an Assistant Minister of the Court of Judicial Review who seems upright but is mad inside.
Two adversaries on the same side of the law trade disdain and suspicion while each keeps their own secrets and searches for the truth.
They investigate cases and apprehend criminals in the human world, and vanquish evil throughout the Six Realms.
Women-friendly (meaning the main female characters pass the Bechdel test, the Sexy Lamp test, and the Mako Mori test)
A fantasy-tinged ancient mystery with supernatural elements. No cultivation, and no romance. In the setup, the heroine had a husband who died hundreds of years ago, but he doesn't appear in the story. Please don't read if that bothers you.
Theme: Between Heaven and Earth, righteousness takes form in all things.
