Secrets of the Mortuary

Name: Secrets of the Mortuary
Author: Sisi2009

殓尸秘录

by Sisi2009 (思思2009)

Status: Completed
Length: 183k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Female-Channel Mystery
Updated: 12mo ago
Source: Fanqie

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Chen Mo is the young heir to the Wangsheng Studio funeral home. He thought he would spend his life in quiet company with cold, lifeless bodies. Then he took charge of a strange corpse known as the “Bride in Red,” and everything began to spiral out of control.

The body never decays, and its smile is as lovely as a flower. The bronze bell tied around its ankle rings silently in the dead of night. From then on, Chen Mo is swept into one whirlpool after another, woven from local ghost stories and horrifying secrets:

· The Midnight Opera Troupe: Why does this troupe from the underworld, heard but never seen, perform only for the dead?

· Cotton Stuffed in Every Orifice: Based on a real unsolved case, the victim's seven orifices were packed with jute. The truth leads to an ancient, evil soul-binding ritual.

· The Vengeful Spirit in the Vat: A century-old grudge lies sealed inside a pickle jar in an abandoned old house...

Every corpse is a key, unlocking another horror buried by time. As Chen Mo searches for the truth, he gradually discovers that the clues to all these bizarre events point, however faintly, to him, and to a shocking secret concerning the balance between yin and yang, hidden behind his seemingly ordinary family of undertakers...

When the Nether Dragon in his palm finally opens its eyes, will he be the next victim, or the only guardian of the gate?

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