
Backflow Incense
About This Novel
In Shanghai in 1933, the Zhenhua Ghost Ship carried thousands of coffins and cursed it and moored into the Huangpu River. Tongyin perfumer Bai Ying's mandala tattoo oozed blood - the ninety-ninth deceased wearing a pearl white cheongsam, the golden thread on the corpse's neck spelled out the name of Sheriff Shen Yan. The pool of blood in the ballroom reflected the bad fate of reincarnation: his collarbone was branded with the Zhenhua anchor, the tip of her tongue was quenched with the Yin woman's poison; the barrel of his gun pressed against the roots of the mandala on her lower back, and her silver hairpin opened the red thread that stitched his memory. When the gilt dressing box spits out shipworms soaked in requiem, and at the three-quarter bell, the boys and girls who devoured each other's hearts in the shipwreck twenty years ago will finally turn their ninety-nine bloody reincarnations into the incense of salvation in this strange and troubled world.
What Readers Think
Rating
Community(0)
Rating
Community(0)







