The Heart Demon's Mystery

She was once a genius in the field of psychology. Now she's a small-town "fortune-telling fraud."

A deadly doctor-patient relationship dragged her into an abyss. In the name of love, someone slaughtered everyone around her and forced her to become the scapegoat for a series of murders. To protect herself, she hid her identity and used fortune-telling as a disguise, living on a knife's edge, until she met Qi Fei, the detective determined to tear that disguise away.

He's a tough detective who doesn't believe in fate, but while investigating her "tricks of the trade," he stumbles upon one bizarre murder after another. An unruly genius at solving crimes, he initially assumes Zhong Kui is a fraud putting on an act, but as they join forces to hunt the killer, he catches a glimpse of her sharpness and vulnerability. She uses a killer as her weapon, luring the culprit into a trap; he follows the clues to the heart of the evil.

He lies in wait in the shadows, using love as bait to hunt down everyone who comes near Zhong Kui. But Zhong Kui carries more than a blood debt. She also bears a fear buried deep in her heart: she and Xi He may be cut from the same cloth. As the truth draws near, she must gamble everything and lure the devil into a dead end.

As the serial murders lead to even more "people who deserve to die," and love and murderous intent become entangled in a web, can Zhong Kui tear off her disguise and join forces with Qi Fei to break free of their inner demons? Or perhaps she is the most dangerous piece on the board... In this deadly game of psychological warfare, the line between madman and genius has long since blurred.

High-IQ crime × extreme psychological warfare × forbidden redemption. A case-by-case investigation with an overarching mystery, where darkness and redemption intertwine in a deadly temptation that plumbs the depths of human nature. The author's completed works include The Abyss of the Unknown, Detective Hu Dafa, and The Divine Schemes of the Tang Dynasty.