The Ghost Detective's Case Files

The Ghost Detective's Case Files is a supernatural mystery novel by Mei Mengshu, a contracted author on Motie Chinese Web, serialized from 2014 and completed in July 2020. Running about 740,000 characters, it is divided into four volumes: The Mystery of the Spirit Case, The Secret of Xiangyun, The Road to Truth, and The Final Battle at the Imperial Tomb. Told in the first person by a criminal investigator, it opens with the declaration "I am a detective who made a pact with a ghost—and then broke it," a confession that leads into a succession of horrifying unsolved cases. The story begins in Guangshun Town in the Miao Autonomous Prefecture of southern Guizhou, site of the ancient Yelang kingdom's royal city. In the Jinlang Tianzhai stockade, on the very night an old woman is buried, her grave is dug open and the body vanishes; the ritual master who presided over the funeral is found dead in a bamboo grove, his heart torn out. The detective and his colleagues rush to the scene and work among such evidence as half a Western Han jade bracelet and a Qing-dynasty platform shoe, only to find the case leads far beyond a single murder. As the investigation unfolds, episodic cases follow one another—a soul-summoning "ghost pact," a lethal gu poison, a cunning tomb robbery, a thousand-year curse spirit, a silver-headed female ghost—and the clues gradually converge on the historical fog surrounding the ancient Yelang kingdom and the secrets of a family that has guarded tombs for a thousand years, while the protagonist's own entanglement with the "ghost pact" is peeled back layer by layer. Built on folk sorcery, feng shui burial customs, and ancient tomb legends, the novel keeps interlocking supernatural explanations with human conspiracies as the cases advance, creating a reading experience where mystery and eerie folklore intertwine. According to public information, the online version required rectification owing to content issues and was later released in print under titles such as The Mystery of the Spirit Case, The Road to Xiangyun, and The Final Battle at the Imperial Tomb.