Records of Yin-Yang Cases

When a blood-red oil-paper umbrella blooms on a street at midnight, the dead have already been assigned a price.

Forensic pathologist Jiang Xia’s scalpel can cut through a corpse, but it can’t stop her own memories from disappearing year after year. She has seen the ledger of an inn in the underworld, where the karmic scores of the dead are being secretly altered. The bronze bell in the hands of Detective Captain Lu Chen can replay the scene of a death, but its chime always reveals a sinister Yama tattoo across his back.

A red paper umbrella inscribed with the entire Ksitigarbha Sutra links a series of “suicides” spanning twenty years. Blue-and-white porcelain made from cremated remains at a funeral home, a time loop trapping an entire apartment building, a bell of rebirth in the palm of a spontaneously combusted corpse... Every body is a sacrifice in a deadly feng shui array.

The moment the Judge’s brush pierced their hearts, Jiang Xia finally understood:

Lu Chen had gazed at her three thousand times because the King of Hell had hidden a love in the Book of Life and Death for ten thousand years.

--- Chinese-style horror × two formidable investigators × forbidden revival