I livestreamed a ghost wedding on Changbai Mountain, and my name was carved into the skinning shears.
An opera troupe in Northeast China performed a ghost opera, and my father's blood seeped from a rouge-red coffin.
A frozen abyss was sealed beneath the Songhua River, and a scroll made of fish skin recorded the debts from my past life.
Deep in a mining disaster at Shuangyashan, my birth details were buried beneath a blood-coal pit.
My name is Lu Li. I am a human coffin maker.
To settle each sinful debt, I pay with a piece of my own body.
A mourning staff tears at my soul, skinning shears cut my flesh, and a coffin-weight scale measures my lifespan.
Until lotus patterns devour my heart, coal crystals embed themselves in my bones, and dark ice covers my limbs, this lonely man will keep turning himself into a coffin, step by step, to bite through the curse's chains that have bound him for three lifetimes.
When I finally reached the source of all the curses, I saw my wife from a past life beneath the ice, smiling coldly at me.
"Husband, this coffin of yours... is just right for burying me."
[The Lonely Luan Sings in Grief, Biting the Coffin to Bury Evil! A Hard-Core Northeast Industrial Folk-Horror Tale of a Man Turning His Body into a Coffin to Suppress Evil]
[Content Warnings]
· Hard-core Northeast Chinese folk horror: snow-burial sedan chairs, Ghost-Cry Ridge, the Five Immortals demanding lives!
· A nonhuman male protagonist in a brutal power-up story: each chapter transforms another part of his body into a corpse (lotus patterns devour his heart, coffin wood covers his legs).
· An abundance of underworld romance (no CP): a ghost seamstress, a snake immortal giving birth, an influencer turned into a bridal gown... Every character is unhinged, and they all want to take him apart and devour him!
When the coffin-weight scale measures his Peach Blossom Tribulation at 999, the hands that dismantled countless cursed coffins will finally nail him into the path to hell.
Reading a good book is like talking to many noble people, okay, it's not a good book, but I think it is a good book, I "take it with a grain of salt" for myself hahaha
It's really super good-looking. There are so many elements of fear in it, and the story clues are very long. It's very good.