The Tomb Owner Says His Coffin Lid Flew Off

In the twenty-third year of the Republic, outside Changsha, there lived an odd man named Leng Zhu.

His face was as cold as ice, but his mind was a tangle of thoughts. He loved acting aloof, yet his imagination was wild enough to fit a camel. With his family's secret arts and the modern knowledge he'd taught himself, he became the underworld's most unusual “tomb diviner.”

A letter from Beiping drew him into the strange whirlpool surrounding the Tang tomb at Xishan:

An archaeology professor had mysteriously fallen into a coma, repeating a sixteen-character prophecy. An empty coffin held no corpse, yet concealed an ingenious optical mechanism. At midnight, the sound of opera rang through the tomb, and a white-clad phantom appeared... Everything pointed to an “illusory tomb” that should not exist.

Armed with his custom-made tomb-divining claw, Leng Zhu met Qin Xiangwan, a young scholar who was timid but tenacious, trembling with fear yet still taking notes. One was cold, the other warm; one quiet, the other lively. Together, on the boundary between science and the supernatural, they began unraveling a mystery thousands of years in the making.

From Xishan in Beiping to the depths of the Qinling Mountains, from watery tombs in Jiangnan to ghost cities in the Western Regions, Leng Zhu's tomb-divining journey was filled with the uncanny:

A Seven-Star Mirror Array used sunlight to open and close the gates of life and death. A Warring States blood coffin sealed away the secret of immortality. Ancient prophecies echoed through a tomb suspended in a glacier... Every tomb was an intricately designed puzzle, and every funerary artifact concealed a truth that defied all understanding.

As their exploration went deeper, Leng Zhu discovered that these seemingly unrelated haunted tombs were actually linked by an astonishing secret spanning all of history: a lost civilization, an unfinished ritual, and an invitation that had waited a thousand years...

The protagonist has no romantic pairing.