Jingzhe Bone Bell

On the night of Jingzhe in the thirty-second year of Guangxu's reign, the first drop of blood seeped out of the beams of the Han family's old house. Fifteen-year-old Han Li held on to the rusty bell left by his mother. Among the coffins hanging upside down at the bottom of the well, he glimpsed the truth of his family's centuries-old curse - every time the Waking of Insects came, the Han family's men turned into blood-fed Beidou sacrifices, with copper bells ringing in their throats, and souls locked in twenty-three hanging coffins. When his second brother Han Zhu's pupils ignited with green ghost fire and his grandfather's handwriting on the pages of the yellow book began to squirm, Han Li realized that the copper bells on the eaves had never exorcised evil spirits, but were guiding the souls who had changed their lives. Under the blood-colored star track, a gray rat holds a bone as a bridge, and a Taotie-patterned pottery urn spits out the "Han Li" tablets of the past dynasties. In order to cut off the cycle of sacrifices from generation to generation, the young man broke into the ancestral hall during a thunderstorm that awakened the stings. However, he saw his birth date being eaten by rats on the altar table in the cellar. At this moment, in the sky reflected by the well water, the bitten Beidou Tianshu star flickers in and out, and the phantom of his mother's blood-oozing orifices is stuffing the blood-stained dagger into his trembling palm... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.