My ancestor was once a famous gold-touching captain, but because he dug a grave that he shouldn't have dug, he was cursed by a ghost.
The men in the family could not live to be forty-five years old. After death, they had to have copper coins in their mouths and a seven-star chart on their bodies before they could be buried.
When I was twenty-four years old, my father suddenly coughed up blood and died. Before he died, he gave me half a broken compass.
In order to break the curse, I followed the compass and stepped into the mysterious and unpredictable thousand-year-old tombs.
In the bloody corpse tomb in western Hunan, the female corpse who could sing opera smiled sweetly at me; in the hanging coffin in the Yellow River, the child's coffin locked by iron chains kept crying in the middle of the night.
It wasn't until I discovered the secret of Jiuding in the ancient tombs of Shang and Zhou Dynasties that I realized that our family's curse was actually related to a god-killing covenant a thousand years ago...
