Winner of an Excellence Award in the Ancient Texts and Culture Competition and an Excellence Award for Realist Online Fiction in the White Mountains and Songhua Waters category. The book The Du Liniang Curse has been published and is now on sale, with a motion comic and stage play in development.
On a stormy night, six unexpected guests arrive one after another at Yin'an Temple, a remote monastery, to take shelter from the rain.
The six have strange backgrounds: a scholar who placed first in the imperial examinations, a member of the Embroidered Uniform Guard in a flying-fish robe with a Xiuchun saber in hand, a ghostly illusionist, and a painter whose brush brings scenes to life.
In the dead of night, fireflies appear, and the discovery of a portrait leads to a woman’s corpse. All six guests have suspicious connections to the dead woman. The top scholar has traveled a thousand miles in search of his beloved, only to find a corpse. The curse painted by the portraitist makes him a murder suspect. The eerie illusionist has an inexplicable connection to the deceased, while even the Embroidered Uniform Guard, who came to hunt down a criminal, is drawn into the case.
Beneath the nightingale’s song, within the walls of a lonely temple.
In their search for the truth, the guests gradually expose one another’s secrets. A terrifying tale inspired by The Peony Pavilion takes shape. Is a ghost at work, or is it the human heart? One horrifying incident follows another, along with a series of murder warnings that read like a curse. When everyone’s stories are laid bare, a sorrowful, long-hidden truth comes to light. The lovesick, unable to have the one they love, finally let go of their obsession when the truth is revealed. Those consumed by the love stories of the ancients finally come to their senses, turning their anger inward and finding redemption through Buddhism...
A very nice book, very nice