The Guanzhong Tomb Raider's Notes

One embroidered shoe, half a debt to the King of Hell. Qin Xin, an apprentice at an antiques shop, gives in to greed and breaks his master’s iron rule against buying goods of dubious origin, secretly accepting a strange Ming-dynasty embroidered shoe made of plain satin. But just after the deal is done, the seller mysteriously drowns in a shallow stretch of water barely waist-deep, right before everyone’s eyes. A woman with blood streaming from every orifice comes for his life in his dreams, closing in step by step... The nightmare’s curse takes hold of Qin Xin, and bloodstains crawl up his arm like living things. His master reveals a painful memory buried for more than twenty years: Now the same bloodstain curse is devouring his only apprentice. Why has the bloodstained embroidered shoe appeared in the world again? What secrets lie hidden in the Consort’s Tomb deep in Longxi? Can Qin Xin unravel the deadly curse before the bloodstains cover his whole body? A bloodstained embroidered shoe has reignited a buried debt of blood from an ancient tomb raid. This is also a race against death, and a journey of self-redemption!