The Guide for the Dead

The day Qin Jue was born, his grandfather died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage. A day later, his father inexplicably crashed his motorcycle into a tree on the way home and died on the spot. Before they could even hold the funeral, his uncle was found dead in the hospital morgue. That very night, unable to bear the shock, his grandmother leaped from the hospital building. His mother also went mad after that, often murmuring things Qin Jue couldn’t understand.

The whole village believed Qin Jue’s family had earned themselves bad karma. A fortune-teller once came to the village and read Qin Jue’s fortune, saying that neither he nor his younger sister could escape the fate of their fathers: when their time came, they would suddenly die too. Qin Jue didn’t believe it, until the day he came of age, when his sister went mad as well...