The Chang’an Secrets: The Unheard Volume

The three bureaus of Chang'an fall into disarray on the same day: The wind's direction contradicts the case evidence, the water's reflection breaks apart under the Reflection Art, and a wish-flame ignites before its wisher is dead. Every clue points to the same "moment that should never have existed." Wen Lan, an heir to the lost Pre-Hearing Bureau, can hear "unheard sounds." They are truths erased from history, struggling in the darkness. When she hears a whisper of her own future death, time throughout the entire city seems to twist in an instant. The Wind Bureau captures the wind, the Water Bureau reveals reflections, the Incense Bureau judges wishes, and the Pre-Hearing Bureau listens for sounds. For the first time, all four bureaus converge before the forbidden pavilion: wind disturbs the water's reflection, water illuminates the incense flame, and incense draws out the unheard sounds. Their arts tug at one another, as if someone were secretly rewriting every murder case in Chang'an. Gradually, they realize: This is not a string of connected cases, but an entire city's fate being edited anew. Deaths are undone, timelines spliced together, case files blackened. Every anomaly points to the blank page in The Book of Pre-Hearings. The truth is not at the scene, but in the second that was "never allowed to happen." The closer they get to the truth, the more they feel as though they are chasing a history book that is erasing itself. And The Unheard Scroll is where the voices that were buried, rescinded, and rewritten speak again. Read to the final page, and you will discover that Chang'an, from the very beginning, was not what it seemed.