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Zhu Dengdeng isn’t exactly cut out for the detective business. She’s a regular city girl with zero knowledge of murder mysteries—no idea what a locked-room is, what “deduction” actually means, or why anyone would willingly become a detective’s assistant. So when a ghostly spirit begs her to investigate a half-year-old case, her brilliant plan is… to fake her way into the job. She ends up in the middle of a “Detective Summit” at the opulent, snowed-in Golden Pavilion—a man-made storm, a suspiciously dramatic host, and four top-tier sleuths (plus their very competitive assistants) in one house. What could possibly go wrong? When someone turns up dead the next morning, the detectives quickly turn their magnifying glasses on each other—and on Dengdeng, who’s suddenly the least qualified assistant in the room and the prime suspect. With suspicion falling on her and no idea what she’s doing, Dengdeng accidentally stumbles into the role of detective. Zero detective skills. One dead body. Let’s wing it. A genre-bending mystery that blends Western-style closed circle mystery with the eccentric flair of Japanese detective fiction—equal parts clue and chaos. A closed-circle murder mystery that’s both classically constructed and gleefully absurd, where logic meets laughter. When the clueless assistant starts solving crimes and the ghost starts helping out… who’s really in charge of the case? 36