Story Introduction
You think death is the end, but for some, it is only another beginning.
Yang Hongyu never imagined she would be connected to a bloody case from twenty years ago, until a strange invitation led her to an old mansion on the outskirts of town, where she met Chen Zijin.
His aunt, Chen Mingyue, was the last Daoist heir to be killed by the paper craftsman Yang Mingyuan twenty years ago. Now, the paper figures Yang Mingyuan created with cinnabar talismans and vengeful spirits are returning beneath the light of the blood moon, seeking revenge for the wrongfully dead.
The paper figures have no heartbeat, yet they can track the scent of their enemies;
They cannot speak, yet they can tear the souls from the living.
Yang Hongyu gradually discovers that she is a descendant of Yang Mingyuan's bloodline, and the final perfect vessel for his plan to live forever. And her father, missing for twenty years, has long since hidden his consciousness inside paper through dark sorcery, becoming a half-human, half-ghost being, waiting for the night the blood moon hangs overhead to complete a ritual that crosses the boundary between life and death...
When cinnabar meets blood and the paper figures open their eyes, the flames of vengeance will burn away every lie.
But if even souls can be made into paper, where does the boundary between humans and ghosts lie?
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.
