Solving Cases Earns Merit: I Ascend by Vanquishing Evil

[A somewhat burned-out office worker with a touch of workplace fatigue x a black-lotus, scheming childhood friend] In the second year of Jianyan, in the Great Yan dynasty, at a quarter past one in the morning.

Late at night, a sharp meow shattered the silence. A cat died in the capital, Shangjing, and its body was not discovered until the following day.

Ye Liuli of the Court of Heavenly Secrets is ordered to investigate. But what this single cat’s death could lead to seems far from ordinary…