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Elegy of Ash and Spring Vol. 1: A Xianxia Mystery Danmei Novel
Murdered by the man he loved, Lin Rui wakes in the body of a poisoned cultivator.
In Los Angeles, he was a private investigator with one last case and six months to live. In the Aethelian Realm, he's eighteen again, trapped in a cultivation clan that wrote the original Lin Rui off as useless.
Except the boy was murdered too.
The poison in his veins is too rare and too expensive to be an accident. If Lin Rui wants to survive his second life, he has to solve the murder he inherited. Every clue leads deeper into Bamboo Cloud Town's hidden rot.
tolen herbs. Forbidden rituals no one will name. Demonic artifacts in a town that swears it has none. A Spirit-Web that rewards justice and collects on corruption. And somewhere behind it all, someone powerful enough to kill a nobody without leaving a trace.
Then there's Wang Ruohan. Beautiful, cold, once betrothed to this body, and wearing the exact face of the man who killed Lin Rui in his first life.
Lin Rui has two murders to solve, one dangerous world to survive, and far too many dangerous men paying attention to him.
Book 1 of Elegy of Ash and Spring is a xianxia mystery with transmigration, clan politics, found-family investigation, and slow-burn danmei/M/M tension.
In Los Angeles, he was a private investigator with one last case and six months to live. In the Aethelian Realm, he's eighteen again, trapped in a cultivation clan that wrote the original Lin Rui off as useless.
Except the boy was murdered too.
The poison in his veins is too rare and too expensive to be an accident. If Lin Rui wants to survive his second life, he has to solve the murder he inherited. Every clue leads deeper into Bamboo Cloud Town's hidden rot.
tolen herbs. Forbidden rituals no one will name. Demonic artifacts in a town that swears it has none. A Spirit-Web that rewards justice and collects on corruption. And somewhere behind it all, someone powerful enough to kill a nobody without leaving a trace.
Then there's Wang Ruohan. Beautiful, cold, once betrothed to this body, and wearing the exact face of the man who killed Lin Rui in his first life.
Lin Rui has two murders to solve, one dangerous world to survive, and far too many dangerous men paying attention to him.
Book 1 of Elegy of Ash and Spring is a xianxia mystery with transmigration, clan politics, found-family investigation, and slow-burn danmei/M/M tension.
321 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 27, 2026
About the author
Qiu Yao Nan Zhi
3 booksQiu Yao Nan Zhi is a bilingual writer based in Shanghai who started writing fiction as a hobby and hasn't figured out how to stop. They read too much fantasy, xianxia, and danmei, and blame it on buying a copy of Mirage of Blaze from a newsstand at eleven years old.
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