The headless white bones beneath the ancestral hall, a Guanyin statue weeping blood, a puzzle made of human bones...
Murder follows murder in Yizhou City. Is it the work of ghosts or people?
Prefect Mu Yunci summons Lady Hong in the dead of night. With a face that is half human and half ghost and a voice that never stops chattering, this woman watches over the mortuary. Every so often, she vanishes for three days. Who is she, really?