Bones Beneath the Lotus Lantern

Ling Chu, a tea seller, crossed paths with Xin Heyu, a spoiled young master from a powerful clan. Thinking he was responsible for her family’s ruin, she struck him down, only to discover afterward that she’d mistaken him for someone else. To make amends, she became Xin Heyu’s maid. By a lucky twist of fate, she ended up helping him solve one strange case after another. Flowers suddenly blooming in a dark pool, growing from corpses; a flying dancer devoured by spiders; a living dead man who chatted merrily with guests despite having died long ago; and a ghostly hand that pierced its victims’ chests and stole their lives in full view of a crowd… One bizarre case after another leads to a conspiracy to rebel by a vassal prince, and is intricately tied to the death of Ling Chu’s father. But no one could have imagined that the person pulling the strings behind it all was a missing village woman.