Deep in Qixia Lane during the rainy season, centuries-old secrets flow under the glazed tiles of "Chenggu Zhai". Young shop owner Shen Huaiqiu is forced to inherit a double inheritance - a century-old shop that appears to deal in antiques, but is actually a Yin Yang pawnshop that suppresses supernatural objects. When he came into contact with the Qing Dynasty dowry's ability to awaken his bloodline, what was overturned in his shattered memory was not only the truth about the sudden death of Fujin in the 37th year of Qianlong's reign, but also the curse contract jointly guarded by the Qing palace shaman and the Lifanyuan.
The Manchu and Mongolian codes in the sheepskin blood book were resurrected on a rainy night, and the shaman bone nails that had been missing for half a century reappeared. The mermaid ointment seeping out of the dowry revealed two completely different memories of death: Su Yutang, who committed suicide by swallowing gold according to historical records, was offering poisoned wine to a man wearing a dragon robe with twelve chapters in the image read by Shen Huaiqiu. The mysterious organization wearing a bronze secret ring in the dark has been waiting for 240 Ghost Festivals to open the ghost gate in Changbai Mountain.
When the bronzes on the shelves of Chengguzhai began to ooze blood, and when the surveillance video automatically played the video of Xuantong combing his hair three years ago, Shen Huaiqiu finally discovered that the most deadly curse was not in the dowry - shamanic totems quietly emerged from the depths of the pupils of everyone who touched the blood book. The clock is reversed in the heavy rain. He must find the broken hairpin that can pierce both the yin and yang realms before the next full moon and before the real memory is swallowed up by history...
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The plot is compact and has a deep literary background. What a great book!
The plot is compact and has a deep literary background. What a great book!