The Ghost Lantern Book of Fated Deaths

“Chugging a bottle in three seconds? That's nothing. I can exorcise a ghost in three seconds now!”

Wang Hao, a good-for-nothing young man who made a name for himself on campus by “chugging a bottle in three seconds,” accidentally swiped a microphone from a barbecue shop while drunk and was swept into a bizarre supernatural vortex. A strange blue mark appeared on his left hand, a red-clad female ghost crawled out from the bottom of a black-water pool, and his own shadow started biting people… When he realized his friends were turning into “lamp oil” one after another, and that his grandfather was a Yin-Yang Master living in seclusion, he finally understood: ever since he was born, he'd been a “human lamp.”

To stay alive, he had no choice but to learn talismans and fight evil ghosts, even sealing the spirits of his own dead parents with his own hands. But the most terrifying thing was that the faces in the palace lanterns were starting to look more and more like his…

“When the lamp goes out, the shadow vanishes? No. When the lamp burns, it devours the soul!”