Alley Tells the Story of a Hundred Ghosts: a Book About Those Who Defy Fate

Modern reader Lin Zang is involved in the cycle of strange stories in the Edo period because of an ancient manuscript "Hakumonogatari". Every time he wakes up, he will become the villain of a certain story in "Hundred Stories from the Alley" - either a liar pretending to be a fox fairy, a drowning water ghost seeking revenge, or a fake monk using sorcery to deceive people. And his fate has already been written: he will be exposed by Youichi, Ayin and other "Hundred Monogatari Group" conspiracy, die in despair, and then go back in time and start all over again. Death follows us everywhere, and the cycle has no end. But Lin Zang did not give in. He carried the memory of every death and struggled to survive between the light of the sword, the spell and the treacherousness of the human heart. He learned to suppress the villain's obsession and took advantage of the logic loopholes of the Hyakumonogatari group to set up counter-games in the rainy alleys and dark nights of Edo; he tentatively contacted those who wandered on the edge of ghost stories, and from Mataichi's indifference and Gin's compassion, he glimpsed the secrets of the "Oden Tsubaki" and "Original Monster" behind the cycle - it turns out that all stories are sacrifices fed to monsters, and he is the variable that is unwilling to be swallowed up. Thousands of rebirths, thousands of games with fate. When he was finally no longer the villain in the story, when the gears of the cycle collapsed in the face of "reality", the strange stories of Edo were still circulating, but this time, Lin Zang stood at the alley, holding in his hands no longer a script destined to be broken, but his own, ordinary but tenacious way of survival. He became the only "protagonist" in this world who stepped out of the story.