Chen Xuan was born beneath a rare alignment of nine stars, as ghosts wailed through the night. His grandfather wagered his own life to borrow twenty-three years of longevity for him. Born with two souls and a blood-red compass embedded in his chest, Chen Xuan could see ghosts and communicate with the underworld from childhood, yet he had no idea that he was actually the reincarnation of the Great Emperor of Fengdu.
The corpses at the medical school bowed to him. Vengeful spirits in century-old haunted houses presented him with petitions. A Miao sorceress planted a love curse in his palm, while a woman in a red dress who appeared at midnight always murmured, “Your Majesty.” When the evil soul awoke and the underworld descended into chaos, he finally realized that his grandfather had spent his entire life laying the groundwork for him to personally suppress a forbidden entity that even the Ten Courts of Yama dared not speak of.
