Painter: Chang'an Secret Bureau

In the treacherous Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty, there is a mysterious profession that specializes in painting faces of the dead - skin painters. Twenty-seven-year-old Shen Li is one of them. She sacrifices her life just to retain the last dignity and truth for the deceased. On a strange rainy night, Pei Ling, the young minister of Dali Temple, turned to her for help regarding the case of a faceless corpse. Shen Li used psychic skills to explore the remaining traces of the painting's skin, and discovered that the deceased's face was covered with two layers of human skin, and the face on the bottom belonged to Concubine Hui, who disappeared mysteriously twenty years ago. This shocking discovery completely involved Shen Li in a shocking conspiracy sweeping Chang'an. As a series of mysterious cases such as the blood wedding dress and the human skin drum broke out one after another, Shen Li discovered that all the clues pointed to her senior sister "Shadow" who had been missing for ten years. His former classmates have now fallen into darkness, using the art of skin painting to change the appearance of the mysterious organization "Hundred Ghosts", and the mastermind behind it is directly targeting the current Prince Rong. Faced with the senior sister's constant pressure and the confusion of the master's life and death, Shen Li and Pei Ling worked together to break the situation. After Pei Ling drew his sword and cut it off, Shen Li took up the painting and vowed to tear off all the false masks in Chang'an City and return the truth to the world. However, the road to discovering the truth is full of thorns. The master's last words before his death, "This face is not yours, but it is already yours" linger like a nightmare. This is not only a contest about suspense and solving the case, but also a profound interrogation of "surface" and "bones", "me" and "not me". "Chang'an Without Ghost" is a 340,000-word Tang-style fantasy suspense masterpiece. The whole book is organized into nine mysterious cases. In the turbulent city of Chang'an, we peel off the layers of painting and explore the truest soul in the depths of human nature.