I Am a Medium: Lady Xiangjiang

[Psychic Mystery] [749 Bureau] [Occultist Horror] [Yin-Yang Showdown]

I was born with a rare gift for communicating with spirits. Raised on the banks of the Xiang River, I grew up watching my mother perform spirit-medium rituals, traveling between the worlds of the living and the dead.

The year the Nine Purple Li Fire fortune began, a talisman seller by the Xiang River took on a job she should never have accepted.

Zou Zizhen, twenty-two years old, has three general manager titles on her business card, but all her ventures are small-time. No one knows she once knelt at fourteen to pour tea for a creditor. No one knows her mother, Ruan Guanguan, the eighth Xiang River Lady, guided three thousand souls across without taking a penny, and in the end couldn't even afford surgery. And fewer still know that the battered ledger she keeps records not money, but karma.

She slips into the Nine Purple Li Fire Supernatural Academy as a school-business partner and takes over its cafeteria, investigating an old altar case. She stumbles into a conspiracy spanning both sides of the yin-yang divide: someone is using dungeons to sort virtuous souls, pricing fates with algorithms, and turning "ascension," "eternal life," and "happiness" into privileges that can be bought and optimized.

Cen Baiheng, altar guardian of the Lushan Sect; Zhang Yichuan, special agent of the 749 Bureau; and Yan Zhaoqian, her middle-school classmate from the Qingwei Sect: all three started with good intentions, all once loved her, and all have argued with her. In the end, she entered every one of them in the same ledger. One upholds the orthodox rites, one guards karma, and one defends impartial justice.

By day, she does business. By night, she enters the underworld as a temporary night judge. She has opened a gambling den, built the Ziwei Tower, burned fake sheddings, broken blood marriages, and stopped a ceremony that sought to steal heaven's power and replace the heavens.

Some good deeds cannot be assigned a price. Some suffering cannot be optimized. Some promises cannot be kept.