In this steel-forest city, death is the end, but the story isn't.
Gu Yan is a professional belongings curator. His company, Afterlife Returns, specializes in sorting through the final traces the deceased leave behind in this world. He believes that every object is a silent testament to a life, and that objects never lie.
With surgical powers of observation, a memory palace comparable to a supercomputer, and profound insight into human nature, Gu Yan can piece together the hidden secrets and unfulfilled wishes of the dead from what seems like a jumble of belongings, and even uncover... the truth behind a concealed death.
An ordinary commission draws him into a vast web stretching across several years. A reclusive programmer's star chart, a businesswoman's secret gallery, an old professor's mysterious notes... These seemingly unrelated deaths all point to a taboo that someone has deliberately buried.
As he draws closer to the truth, he discovers that the web's end is connected to the painful past he sealed away years ago. He sorts through other people's belongings, but what he is searching for is his own answer.
This is a story about death, memory, and redemption. Shh, be quiet. The belongings... are about to speak.
