He bears the lost secrets of the Ghost Path, yet has no memories of his previous life. His right eye has become a bronze ghost eye, his blood carries a sinister aura, and his half-human, half-ghost body is both a weapon and a curse. Shen Xingyu, a cool-headed and rational forensic pathologist, never believed in ghosts or gods, until she meets him at a grisly paranormal crime scene: a blood-soaked wedding dress seeping through a mirror, a corpse awakening in its coffin, a red sedan chair hovering in midair at midnight... Behind every “missing bride case” lies a copper coin dowry, with the underworld claiming its due.
Over the course of a century, twenty-three brides have met their deaths one after another. Birth-date talismans are hidden beneath their wedding garments, and bloody copper coins are engraved inside their jade bangles. When a wealthy heiress becomes the twenty-fourth sacrifice, Chen Qingyang's shattered memories gradually piece together a horrifying truth: his resurrection was no accident, and the crowned bride reflected in his bronze ghost eye is the key to this ghost wedding ritual. Meanwhile, the scalpel in Shen Xingyu's hand has cut open a forbidden pact between the living and a ghost matchmaker...
Bodies sink to the riverbed, copper coins ask the way, and ghost sedan chairs lure souls. Folk horrors intertwine with modern crimes, while Ghost Path secrets clash with forensic science. As bronze patterns gradually consume Chen Qingyang's body, Shen Xingyu must uncover the final conspiracy behind this trade between yin and yang before he turns completely into a ghost fiend. The living as the dowry, the ghost matchmaker as witness: on the road to the Yellow Springs, who is the real bride?
Suspense and horror × folk mysteries × a life-and-death riddle
The plot is fast-paced and quite good.