Missing You as Before

One word: hatred. Two words: resolve. Three words: kill. A hundred schemes, a thousand plots, ten thousand traps. Strange curses trigger a chain of murders; midnight horrors leave people trembling; haunting opera tunes steal souls; the vanished return from the Yellow Springs... Every case conceals something behind the murders, and what kind of monstrous lie will await him this time? Everyone knows that among the southern opera troupes, the Lichun Troupe is the most famous, and the performer Nianqing is its leading lady. From Wenzhou Prefecture, through Yangzhou Prefecture, to the capital, the decadent strains of opera mask a blood-soaked trail of slaughter. Lang Jue: I once knew a girl. I loved her and cherished her. I asked for nothing from life, but now I ask only this: may Nianqing remain as she was.