The bridal sedan carried her not to a happy marriage, but into a living coffin. Forced to take another woman’s place in the marriage, Yu Qianye became the “array core” chosen by Yinlou the moment she stepped into the Somber Pavilion. Sticky fluid drips from bloodwood beams, paper effigies bear the faces of the dead, and whispers from the bottom of a well call out her name... This is the chessboard on which Gongsun Mo “nurtures evil to resist the coffin demon,” and a cage where the fates of three clans intertwine.
Xie Tingyun, the executioner clan’s descendant, carries a cursed bloodline and an obsession with finding his father. He meets her on a dead-end path overtaken by corpse moss. Shen Yuheng, a courteous and refined member of the Tomb Guardian Clan, hides unfathomable schemes and struggles beneath his polished exterior. And every time A Chun, transformed into a living puppet, offers guidance through her lingering soul, it reveals another piece of a blood-soaked past.
As they transmigrate through the eerie secret realms of seven child coffins and gather copper divination pieces concealing hidden mechanisms, the bloodwood pupil in Yu Qianye’s left eye gradually reveals the truth: the so-called salvation of the world is a deception that has lasted a century. The Tomb Guardian Clan controls people with fungal poison, the Executioner Clan offers sacrifices to a curse, and the Sacrificial Burial Clan uses blood rites to forge shackles. The lament of all three clans stems from the coffin demon from another world, buried deep underground and yearning to break out of its coffin.
When the mother coffin whispers in the City of Ten Thousand Coffins and trust shatters amid betrayal, Yu Qianye must join with Xie Tingyun and use their hearts as the key to turn the tide beneath the noose of fate. But a temporary seal is no true ending. The children’s sobs from the edge of the city and gray mist seeping from the coffin cracks silently declare:
The coffin demon will return in three years. And in the next game, all of humanity will be at stake.
The coffin demon is not dead, only sleeping. Three child coffins remain unsealed, and the door to another world has already begun to crack open in the darkness.
