In 1980, Chen Sanyu, an antique dealer at Beijing's Liulichang, acquired a sinister object: a bronze soul-summoning bell used by corpse-driving ritualists in western Hunan. It came with a pawn ticket marked by a bloody handprint. That very night, the seller drowned in the city moat, and Chen Sanyu began suffering one hallucination after another. To uncover the truth, he had no choice but to head south to the Yuan River, where he stumbled into a deadly scheme a thousand years in the making.
