Paper Effigies

Old Zhang, who had spent his whole life making funeral paper offerings, left his shop to Xiao Qi on one condition: it could not be sold or rented out, and Xiao Qi had to keep running it himself.

Xiao Qi thought he was in for a pleasant life selling paper people and horses, but a customer who showed up out of the blue shattered that illusion. Xiao Qi had seen the man just that morning, yet was told he had died several days ago.

He had thought he was simply doing business with the dead, but it turned out he was doing business for the dead.

Unsolved cases, sinister arts, vengeful ghosts, evil gods: they're all here.

You may guess how it begins, but there's no way you'll guess how it ends.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is coincidental. Do not imitate.