Strange Tales of the Cangjiang River

The mighty Cang River stretches for hundreds of miles, swallowing countless people who drowned and met unjust deaths. When the tide rises, the boundary between yin and yang blurs; when it falls, the dead sink into the abyss. The river divides the living from the dead. Chen Yansheng was born into the Chen family on the riverbank. Gifted with the ability to see evil spirits, he carries an ancestral wooden token carved with water patterns and is forced to face one eerie incident after another on the Cang River. At an abandoned old ferry crossing, a dead woman in white waits night after night for a boat, still longing for an elopement promised twenty years ago but never fulfilled. When the flood season brings a great surge, the river tide calls back the spirits of the dead. A mother consumed by grief tries to keep her drowned son from leaving, upsetting the balance between the living and the dead. Each night, songs for guiding souls drift across the river’s heart, as a mysterious boatman ferries countless resentful spirits who cannot move on, revealing the secret duty the Chen family has guarded for generations. One regret after another lies buried beneath the river, along with countless obsessions that cannot be put to rest. The Cang River’s hidden currents never cease, and deeper still, beneath the water, more secrets lie dormant, never yet brought to light. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.