Tales of Feng Shui and the Uncanny

The night I was born, the Seven Stars aligned and a blood moon hung in the sky. The elders said I had an extremely yin fate and was born to attract evil. For twenty-four years, I, Lin Chenchen, tried to be an ordinary male college student. But the world I saw was nothing like the one other people knew: black mist seeping from walls, faceless shadows in the corridors at midnight, a sinister grin flashing in the mirror... These unspeakable terrors were secrets I had carried alone. That is, until a deadly occult ritual in a century-old library nearly swallowed me whole. At the brink of death, my always-stern, impossibly handsome senior, Wang Hao, and the unfathomable Daoist Master Xuan Qing rescued me and opened another door for me. “Kid, you can't run from it. This is your fate.” From then on, I became a disciple of Daoist Master Xuan Qing. Alongside my stern-faced but warm-hearted senior, Wang Hao, I embarked on a strange and fantastical journey. We ventured through the shadows of modern cities: Dealing with a coffin that mysteriously trembled beneath an old house; Uncovering the cruel truth behind the River God's Wedding; Breaking the deadly “Fortune-Gathering Curse” in a commercial high-rise, where luck was stolen to claim lives; Tracking an “Electronic Nightmare” capable of spreading through the internet... Along the way, we met Tang Wanzhi, a mysterious girl who could communicate with spirits, and Su Feina, a beautiful scholar specializing in the study of ancient ruins. Ancient talismans and spells clashed with modern technology, while real folk taboos intertwined with horrifying paranormal events. But as I ventured deeper into danger time and again, I began to realize that these seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents all seemed to point toward a thousand-year-old mystery closely tied to the strange omens surrounding my birth. From the very beginning, my fate was