In the autumn of the 23rd year of Wanli, it rained continuously in the south of the Yangtze River. In an abandoned post station outside the city of Suzhou, scholar Shen Yan took shelter from the rain and rested. The house was covered with cobwebs, but only one oil lamp was still burning, its light flickering like a ghost. He rummaged through a broken box in the corner and found a fragment of a volume titled "Night Tales". The pages were yellowed and the handwriting seemed to be written in blood and ink.
