The Corpse in the Coffin Calls Me Mom

On the day of his grandfather's funeral, Xu Zhao braved the rain to return to his hometown. Halfway there, he stumbled into a nighttime banquet with no bride. The next day, his portrait stood in the funeral tent, but his mother's voice came from deep inside the coffin: "Zhaozhao, open the door." When he was eight, he had once borrowed a breath from the water. Now, with the forty-ninth night drawing to a close, the White-Clad Lord of the Underworld has come to collect an old debt, intent on borrowing Xu Zhao's body to return to the mortal world. Xie Xiao, the red-clad ghost who first learned the truth, ties a red thread around his wrist. She wants to use him to lure the Lord away from his seat and reclaim the bones buried beneath a divine statue for three hundred years. She has protected him from ghosts, but kept her most dangerous plan hidden for a long time. To stay alive, Xu Zhao has no choice but to travel with her through the Fox Clan's night banquet, an abandoned temple and its old paintings, a harbor in the phantom city, and a mountain temple without lamps. Familiar voices call him to turn around again and again in the night. After forty-nine nights, who will return from the coffin?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events or people is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.