Memoirs of Shaoqing's Past Events

My name is Shaoqing, and I work with a folk exorcism master. I thought I was used to seeing the weirdness of Buddhist amulets and ancient artifacts, until I received a commission from Xiangyang - a retired old man drowned while fishing in Huishui Bay. After his death, strange things happened frequently in his family: there was a constant sound of water in the middle of the night, an orange cat roared with fur, incense burned strangely in front of the portrait, and even the pen that the old man had worn close to his body for twenty years disappeared out of thin air! After going deep into the Zhang family, we found out that the old man's drowning was no accident. The strange water vapor in the bathroom and the cold gaze from behind the crack in the door all pointed to a "thing" in the water. In the frightening night of midnight, we confronted the water ghost who was swollen and scaly, but unexpectedly discovered that the old man's death was actually related to a dusty experiment at the Yongfeng Textile Factory more than thirty years ago! The iron box sunk at the bottom of the river, the pen engraved with an unfamiliar name, the sealed experimental sample... When we pried open the iron box, we realized that in this turbid backwater bay, there was not only the resentment of the water ghosts, but also the blood, tears and sins of a generation. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.