Republic-Era Haunted Relics: A Curse in the Antique Game

“The thirtieth year of the Republic, Beiping in an age of chaos. A sacred cauldron determines the fate of the nation; a curse turns heaven and earth upside down.” A gentle heir to a family of antique dealers becomes a living corpse, neither human nor ghost, overnight. Forced to join forces with a mysterious Japanese merchant, he searches for a sliver of hope in a game surrounded by foreign powers. They pursue the Map of Mountains and Rivers, said to have the power to ignite the nation's fate. They are drawn into a long-buried massacre that wiped out an entire family. When personal grudges collide with the greater good of the nation, will they choose revenge or sacrifice themselves to defend their homeland? This is a story of using oneself as bait and risking one's life to turn the tables.