Chronicles of Yuzhou: Lord of the Underworld

(This book has been renamed Fate Peach.) To save his younger sister, Shen Zhiming took a peachwood coffin from a funeral home and removed a “fate peach” capable of defying heaven and changing destiny.

He thought it was the beginning of hope. Instead, he had stepped into a deadly game that had continued for nine hundred years.

In the ghost market of Sichuan, people trade years of their lives for peaches, while the living are put up for sale.

In the water towns of Jiangnan, paper figures at ghost weddings open their eyes, and brides sink to the bottom of the river.

In a haunted village in the north, villagers become slaves to fate, all to offer up “longevity peaches.”

One bizarre folk mystery after another points back to that “fate peach.”

The female ghost in the well from ninety years ago becomes his guide.

His frail, dying sister becomes a vessel for the calamity of fate.

Only when the truth comes to light does he learn that

The so-called “keeper of fate” is not guarding anyone’s life. He is guarding a destiny that demands he sacrifice a loved one in every lifetime.

In this life, when the mastermind sets the wheel of fate turning, throws the Three Realms into turmoil, and forces him onto the path of kin-slaying once more,

how will Shen Zhiming wield his pen and write his own ending?