Lin Yuan, owner of the Qiyun Studio antiques shop in Hangzhou, was once a legendary tomb raider who dominated the underworld. One stormy night, the arrival of a scroll made from Warring States gold foil shattered the quiet life he had hidden among ordinary folk. A bronze bell rang without a breeze, the map of the Twenty-Eight Lunar Mansions rearranged itself amid a mist of blood, and a deceased dealer in funerary artifacts knocked at his shop door, warning him as corpse worms crawled from the man’s body: **“On the night of the full moon, the hanging coffin will appear.”**
