The Encryption Mystery

A master detective from the Republic of China era; a detective’s notebook whose records begin in 1931; a special cipher tailored for detectives of the future; and an intellectual duel that forcibly draws in the Queen of Crime…

A conspiracy passed down through generations, inherited schemes, an endless cycle of revenge, and a detective who cannot rest in peace. Only by cracking the double cipher hidden in the notebook can one reach the truth buried in the distant past. The detectives’ wordplay begins.

A Chinese teacher who had dreamed of becoming a detective since childhood meets a criminal investigator devoted to educating others at a wedding where they seem to have no business being. The two hit it off and team up to solve “word cases” that span the river of time.

After working together seamlessly, they discover that the Republic-era detective notebook they came across by chance is no fictional tale plagiarizing a famous work. It is a web woven from words, and the two of them are caught in it. More astonishing still, the notebook’s reappearance seems to have triggered some hidden mechanism. Gears mesh, fate turns, and the descendants of people named in the notebook begin dying one after another…