The Underworld Life-Borrower: The 108 Supernatural Cases I Solved

Everyone in my family has to borrow time from the Underworld to solve cases. Once we've borrowed it a hundred times, the debt collector comes for our lives.

A corpse floating in the Yellow River bears a double-happiness mark burned into its neck. A pawnshop in the ghost market trades in a hundred years of mortal lifespan. A Miaojiang gu coffin hides a fragment of the Tang dynasty's Tuibei Tu. These are the eerie cases no one else dares take, and they're all bargaining chips for extending my life.

It wasn't until I found a cinnabar talisman on the seventh corpse that I realized:

• Every time I borrow a life, a matching corpse spot appears on my body.

• The mute forensic examiner writes in Tang dynasty secret code while examining corpses.

• The paper effigy delivered by the paper-figurine maker is actually an Underworld mole.

When I tore away the disguise concealing a century-old ghost marriage case, a countdown suddenly seeped from the Book of Yin and Yang: 107 life-borrowing records already on file.

For the final case, the Underworld judge wrote my name in the Book of Life and Death...