Strange Tales: The Yin-Yang Agent

Nobody knows that Lin Buyu, a mild-mannered folklore graduate student who is almost painfully dull, carries two secrets that could get him killed: a pair of Yin-Yang Eyes that let him stare straight at the dead, and a mysterious notebook filled with taboo symbols, left to him by his grandfather.

He only wants to keep his secrets under wraps and graduate, but the deadly ghost stories haunting his dorm after dark won’t leave him alone. The urban legends everyone else takes for jokes are the wails of ghosts clinging to his ankles and begging for help. He tries to stay out of it, but gets pushed into haunted houses, forced to fight evil spirits, and dragged into the century-old feud between the southern Maoist exorcists and the northern Ma family.

Then comes the cruelest twist: he was never some unlucky bystander forced into the game! His origins are a piece in a century-old scheme sealed away by the “Ghost Sect,” his Yin-Yang Eyes a pact arranged long ago, and his grandfather’s notebook bait meant to lure him into the game. The storm engulfing the supernatural world was never closing in on him. Ever since he opened his eyes and saw his first ghost, it had been waiting for him, the “chosen chess piece,” to light the fuse and set it off with his own hands...