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Leyline Engineer

Leyline Engineer

by NightJadeWrites

ContemporaryFantasyMagicMale LeadMystery

A disgraced geomancy consultant discovers that someone has been turning modern buildings into weapons. Lin Jue reads what ordinary engineers miss: pressure where walls should be calm, load paths bent by hidden anchors, and leyline wounds buried under city concrete. Once, developers paid him to solve impossible site problems. Then a sabotaged headquarters project ruined his name, his master died chasing the same pattern, and every official report called it an accident. Now he works small jobs with a cracked luopan, field notebooks, and a body-scarring talent that lets him feel what instruments cannot. When a luxury development starts producing impossible failures, Lin Jue finds the first cut in a much larger network. Someone is redirecting geomantic force through hospitals, depots, towers, and old infrastructure, making disasters look like bad design, bad luck, or human error. To survive, he has to rebuild his tools, test every anomaly, map the hidden network under the city, and prove the difference between superstition and engineering before the next site kills people. What to expect:

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1Chapter 1: Freelancer0----
2Chapter 2: The Development That Refused To Hold0----
3Chapter 3: Eight Meters Down0----
4Chapter 4: Reputation Wound0----
5Chapter 5: The City Spine0----
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7Chapter 7: Anchor Test0----
8Chapter 8: The Wrong Consultant0----
9Chapter 9: Dead Vein Contact0----
10Chapter 10: The First Cut0----
11Chapter 11: The Media Trap0----
12Chapter 12: The Logistics Depot0----
13Chapter 13: Compass Damage0----
14Chapter 14: Rebuilding The Instrument0----
15Chapter 15: The Contractor's Ledger0----
16Chapter 16: Steel Rain0----
17Chapter 17: Cost Of Resonance0----
18Chapter 18: Old School, New Knife0----
19Chapter 19: Three Missing Points0----
20Chapter 20: The Public Demonstration0----
21Chapter 21: The Mountain Case0----
22Chapter 22: Xie Changshan's Last Survey0----
23Chapter 23: The Hidden Bureau0----
24Chapter 24: Cut Point South0----
25Chapter 25: Failure Condition0----
26Chapter 26: The Man Who Knew The Compass0----
27Chapter 27: Break The False Line0----
28Chapter 28: Lu Jinlan's Price0----
29Chapter 29: Thirty-Year Machine0----
30Chapter 30: The First Cut Opens0----