A blue lantern that shines into the netherworld, and two doomed romances entwined with life and death.
Jiang Wanyue, an antique restoration expert, has a secret: when she touches an antique, she can glimpse the memories of the dead. She looks after the family’s Qingdeng Pavilion, but after coffins are found floating in the Canglan River, Xie Wujiu, the “Living Yama” of the Court of Judicial Review, pins her to a torture rack by the throat. With a colored-glass lens covering his left eye, he pries open her collar with his sword and sneers, “That blue lotus birthmark on your wrist looks just like the brand of the ferryman who guided souls to the underworld thirty years ago.”
She is investigating the truth behind her father’s grisly death, while he needs her blood to restrain his rampaging yin-yang eyes. One bizarre case after another tears open a blood-red curtain: a formation of a hundred coffins beneath the river, a human-skin lantern and bone-revealing mirror, puppet strings wielded in Nuo opera... The cinnabar moles on every victim’s neck point to the secrets of the blue lantern guarded by the Jiang family for a thousand years.
She reaches into the netherworld; he gazes toward the Yellow Springs.
Only when Xie Wujiu is nailed into a formation of living coffins does Jiang Wanyue learn that he was born to be her “life-substitute lantern wick.” On the night their blood pact binds them together, he bites her neck and rasps, “If I become an evil spirit, you must gouge out these eyes with your own hands.” But she drives the blue lantern into her heart. “I’ll trade my soul for your place among the living.”
Chinese-style suspense and aesthetics X forbidden love between life and death
- Folk supernatural tales: the river god’s bride, soul-swapping in Miao territory, the ghost soldiers of western Hunan
- Cursed objects: a bone-piercing mirror that foretells disaster, puppet strings that control lives, a blue lotus birthmark that devours its bearer
- High-impact twists: twin sacrifices, a formation of living coffins, a deadly cycle of reincarnation
“Jiang Wanyue, you’re the lantern that has trapped me.”
“Xie Wujiu, I would burn myself away to bring you out of the endless abyss.”
When the blue flame of the ancient lantern burns bright again, will it reveal the truth, or another obsession that has endured for a thousand years?
I'll be the first to comment! Before reading this book, I said that I would not read this kind of horror and suspense book, for fear of having nightmares at night, but now it slaps me in the face, it is so good, I can't stop watching it 📖"The Green Lantern" - a green lantern that illuminates the netherworld, two evil fates that entangle life and death. Jiang Wanyue, born on July 7th, is the lantern keeper of Qingdeng Pavilion and an antique restorer, but she cannot fix her cursed fate. Xie Wujiu, the living Yama of Dali Temple, has a heart as cold as cold iron, but she hides the soul-locking nail that she pierced with her own hands. "If I become an evil spirit, you must dig out these eyes with your own hands." "I will exchange my soul for your world." - Chinese suspense aesthetics ✨High-energy reversal: twin sacrifices, living coffin array, reincarnation and death. "Jiang Wanyue, you are the lamp that traps me." "Xie Wujiu, I am willing to burn this body to transport you to eternity." I hope this book can be read by more people. Don't miss this treasured author Qiu Bai!