Lin Wei, an urban white-collar worker, never imagined that a solitary hike in the wilderness after a personal setback would lead her to encounter a scarlet "fox wedding" procession in the fog. An angry curse and a photograph she should never have taken brought her an inescapable pursuit: icy fingerprints on her neck, an all-pervading sense of being watched, and a strange, burning mark on her wrist. All of them proclaimed that she owed a "romantic debt" to another world.
With nowhere else to turn, she found the "Folk Culture Consultation and Crisis Intervention Center," hidden away in the city, and its director, Shen Qingya. This man, calm to the point of coldness, devoted his life to solving such "intractable cases." But this was only the beginning of the abyss. After mistakenly picking up a silver bangle by the river, a childhood playmate who drowned returned with a "water ghost debt." Out of curiosity, she summoned the "Mirror Immortal," only for the reflection in the mirror to develop a will of its own. Lost in the mountains, she stumbled into a "Netherworld Banquet," where the living became the main course served to the ghosts. She inherited a remote ancestral home, only to discover that the entire old mansion was a living prison sealing away an ancient evil...
Every one of these unbelievable supernatural tales stemmed from the desecration of ancient taboos. Forced to tread the line between yin and yang, Lin Wei struggles to survive in despair. She must repay her own debts, but with every heart-pounding ritual to "sever a debt," she sinks deeper, gradually uncovering an even more terrifying truth behind it all.
Remember: don't disturb a fox wedding in the wilderness, and don't greedily pick up a silver bangle from underwater. Summoning an immortal through an ancient mirror is no game, and no living person leaves a Netherworld Banquet. When the veneer of modern life is ruthlessly torn away and the shadows of an ancient world come roaring forth, do you dare open this Folk Tales of the Supernatural, written in fear?
