Leyline Engineer

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: