The Suspended Coffin Cipher: The Yin-Yang Scheme

The story takes place in Qinglan, a small town on the southern frontier of modern China known as “the boundary between yin and yang.” Whenever torrential rain falls, eerie clusters of hanging coffins appear. In recent years, a string of bizarre murders has taken place in town. Each victim is found with a bluish-purple face, eyes wide open, and an ancient bronze coin engraved with archaic runes in their mouth. The police investigation comes up empty, while local rumors claim that the “Blood Fiend” sealed inside the hanging coffins a century ago has awakened. The protagonist, Lin Qiubai, is a folklore researcher who became obsessed with the supernatural after witnessing her mother being swallowed by a mysterious black mist as a child. Invited to Qinglan to investigate the case, she has no idea she is about to be drawn into a yin-yang mystery spanning a hundred years.