Notes on Yin and Yang

My name is Lu Jiuyuan, and I am a papermaker. Grandpa said that there are three iron rules in our industry: paper people don't open their eyes, and paper horses don't open their eyes. If you don't face west, you won't take orders in the middle of the night. But I happened to take the job in the middle of the night in July. My employer gave me a bag of ghost coins and asked me to make a paper groom for a woman wearing a red wedding dress. After the work was done, I was about to light the fire, but I found that the paper man... Moved by himself. It turned its head and stared at me with its eyes painted in ink. Only then did I realize that the person I was wearing was not a paper man, but a substitute. From that day on, I took on one weird job after another: putting makeup on a century-old corpse, avenging the wronged souls who died in vain, and fighting evil spirits in ancient houses in deserted villages. I used my paper-tying skills and a mahogany sword to carve out a way to survive in this world where humans and ghosts are hard to distinguish. Others are afraid of ghosts, but I rely on ghosts to make a living. This is my Yin-Yang Notes. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.