The Canal's Strange Plot: A Barber Slays the Golden Thread Dragon Vein

Bian Yulou, a barber on Gengzi Street in Yangzhou, is drawn into a century-old blood curse because of his gilt razor.

Warlord Shen Henian controls mechanical puppets, while wealthy merchant Pei Wenxuan uses living people to cultivate golden-thread puppets. And deep beneath the canal lies the secret of the Zhou family's pawnshop, where three hundred young boys were sacrificed in a blood ritual.

When Qingdai suddenly finds golden threads wrapped around her body and a banquet featuring living people appears at the Fuchun Teahouse, Bian Yulou takes up his family's heirloom razor. Together with the imprisoned Zhou Mingtang and Chen Asi from the docks, he begins to unravel the astonishing secret of the golden-thread dragon vein amid a sinister web of machinery and flesh.

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