I Became the Star of the Zombie Horde with Acupuncture

This work is best read carefully, as it features many intriguing plot twists.

[Mystery and horror + historical secrets + occult mechanisms + strange tales + scientific grounding

Folk mysteries + missing artifacts + fated bloodlines + time-space annihilation + epic resistance]

During the Wanli era, undercurrents of danger swirled through Linqing Prefecture beside the Grand Canal. When romantic affairs behind crimson curtains collided with eerie noises from the corpse boards in a funeral parlor, a strange tale steeped in rouge and cinnabar began to unfold.

Qi Jiulang, a rakish young master versed in Maoshan secrets, is forced to join forces with Su Sanniang, a coldly beautiful and mysterious apothecary widow, while investigating a series of corpse-reanimation cases. Undercover agents of the Embroidered Uniform Guard, White Lotus cultists, and Japanese pirate spies weave a vast web through brothels and gambling dens. Behind every corpse that rises again lies a past devoured by desire.

From The Jade Casket Record to The Lu Ban Book, from corpse-driving in western Hunan to Siamese curses, this eerie journey across the north and south of the Ming Empire reveals that the most terrifying thing is never the hopping zombies, but the insatiable greed buried deep in the human heart.