Female Body

Female Body is a supernatural suspense novel by the web author Liu'an Huaming. First serialized online, it became a work that a generation of longtime readers still remember fondly. The story begins on a nightmarish evening: a corpse with a woman's body and a man's head appears inexplicably, and the police officer Yan Feng, who arrives at the scene, discovers after examination that the deceased is his first love, who had suddenly vanished ten years earlier. More bizarre still, a second and then a third corpse with mismatched head and body appear—it seems that many 'half-male, half-female' people live in this world. Every extra head means someone has lost a body. With this bizarre serial case as its main thread, the novel has Yan Feng investigate the killer while confronting the past he sealed away ten years ago. As the investigation deepens, people who disappeared years ago gradually reappear, an old case in which the men of a mountain village were all beheaded is brought up again, and sorcery rituals involving 'body swapping' and 'resurrection' surface layer by layer. The story interweaves the realistic threads of criminal investigation with village secrets and the eerie atmosphere of ancient sorcery, shifting between the present murder case and events a century earlier, and finally points to a secret that has endured for thousands of years. At over 200,000 characters, the book is tightly paced and chilling in atmosphere, blending the supernatural with mystery and deduction. It should be noted that this is a web novel with no verified formal publication information; the versions circulating are mostly self-edited online texts.