Yin and Yang

Xie Wujiao is an unorthodox folk exorcist who has never followed the orthodox path of talismans, instead devoting himself to the forbidden art of borrowing power through curses.

He forcibly siphons the curse power of demons and ghosts and turns it against them, but the price is brutal: with every battle, his meridians split inch by inch and his bones and blood are damaged. The more he wins, the more broken he becomes.

A paper bride in an empty sedan, an apartment that steals names, a murderous opera troupe, a Guanyin who steals lifespans: six rule-based horrors sweep across the city.

Every murder bears the mark of a white lantern, all connected to the old case of his master's brutal death ten years ago. Behind it all, someone is using a Book of a Hundred Ghosts to call up names and perform sacrifices, feeding the city's people to an evil spirit.

The Yin-Yang Bureau wants to use him as bait. The only one who accompanies him through life and death is A Mo, his one-winged ink crow shikigami.

It always lets him down at critical moments, but comes to his rescue when all seems lost.

Trade flesh for power, risk life to break the deadlock.

When every white lantern in the city lights up, the gravely wounded Xie Wujiao has only one last chance to borrow a curse and overturn the entire sacrificial scheme.

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