Bone Jade: a Closed Loop of Time in Xiangxi Gu Town

Lu Shen, an antique restorer, received a rosewood box engraved with "Xiangxi Luogu Town" after his master Qin Jiuzhen died suddenly and mysteriously. In the box were half a piece of Qinxue Bone Jade, a incomplete book of secrets about Gu affairs, and a faded photo - in the photo, he had a butterfly-shaped scar on his collarbone when he was a boy. The girl wearing Miao clothes next to him was holding the other half of the bone jade, and the "Gu Sealing Tower" in Luogu Town was in the background. What's even weirder is that Lu Shen falls into a recurring dream every night: Under the Gu sealing tower, the girl holds up the bone jade and chants "On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the bone and jade match, time returns to its original position." The butterfly-shaped scar on his collarbone always oozes blood in his dreams. In order to find out the cause of his master's death and the truth about the dream, Lu Shen went to Luo Gu Town, only to find that the place was trapped in a "three-day time loop": every three days, the memories of the townspeople were reset, and only he and the sudden appearance of ancient books researcher Su Gu held the other half of the bone jade to retain their memories. The town is dead during the day, but at night it echoes with Miao Gu songs; the Gu Pagoda exudes "gu liquid" at midnight, and the inscription on the tower body is engraved with the curse "use love as a guide, use bones as a lock". With the retrieval of the missing pages of the secret record of Gu affairs and the exploration of the old site of Gu town, Lu Shen gradually regained his memory: This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.