The origin of every story was that when Pang Yi was seventeen, she was allowed to take part in a sacrificial ceremony.
That night, she woke from a dream to find glaring blood seeping over the windowsill, forming a few crooked words: “I’ve come to find you.”
That night, someone knocked on her door.
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A grandfather wearing a cat’s skin, his eyes still open in death; a child whose mother had died, coming to bury her body; a stranger from out of town, fleeing after a car accident... One strange occurrence after another eventually joined together to form a complete circle.
Pang Yi never understood.
Did it all begin with “offering a sacrifice to the gods”?
