The Corpse Painter

Painting corpses, painting flesh; painting souls until they sink into the bones. This is the ancestral teaching of the corpse painters. Preparing and applying makeup to the dead is not only meant to comfort the living, but also to purify resentment. That is how the trade of corpse painting came to be.

Among corpse painters, one lineage is born with spiritual power. They are called Heaven-Blessed Corpse Painters, the most terrifying beings between heaven and earth. Heaven-Blessed Corpse Painters survive on their parents’ flesh and blood. Their lineage should have gone extinct long ago.

“When the dead open their eyes, the zombies stop in their tracks.” It’s a saying known only to the old hands at the funeral home. But for money, he closed Chen Xiaoling’s open eyes and carried on with her makeup. And so it began: a legend silent for a thousand years was brought to life once more.