It Is Taboo to Fish Out Corpses. I Will Guard the Return of All Ghosts on the Yangtze River.

The turbid water of the Yangtze River hides all the injustice in the world. There is a business of fishing for corpses on the riverside that everyone in the town avoids, but my Chen family has been sticking to it for generations. When I was eighteen years old, it rained heavily all night, and a female corpse in red floated from the river. She stared at the river bank with her eyes open. No one in the whole village dared to touch it. They all said that if a corpse in red clothes sinks, the ghost will be killed. Not understanding the rules of the trade, I felt soft-hearted and fished out the body, violating a centuries-old river taboo on the spot. Since then, there has been the sound of the river lapping at the shore in the middle of the night, ghostly people knocking on the door, corpses demanding debts, and old grudges lingering around. I realized that the bottom of the Yangtze River was never still water, but a yin and yang purgatory that had been suppressed for hundreds of years. Living people commit evil crimes and hide their sins in the river, and their unjust souls remain trapped in the water. I am the master of the ruler passed down from my ancestors to fish out corpses, abide by the rules of Yin and Yang, fish out all the corpses buried in the Yangtze River, and cut off the cause and effect of evil people in the world. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.