Xerses has worked in a variety of genres, including mystery, martial arts, and speculative fiction. Xerses debuted in 2013 with Lotus of the Same Fate, winning the Bronze Award at the Kadokawa Light Novel Awards, followed by recognition for the martial arts novel Immortal Bird. In 2015, Xerses’ mystery novel H.A. was a finalist for the Shiomida Shosuke Mystery Novel Award, and in 2020, the epic novel K.I.N.G.: Natural Disaster Response Center was nominated for the Taipei International Book Exhibition Grand Prize. Recent works include the suspense series Witch's Spearhead and the collaborative ghost story novel Chopsticks: Strange Tales of the Occult, which sold rights in Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. The Agnostic Detective has garnered over 100,000 views on the CCC online platform.

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