When the limits of science collide with the depths of the mystical, some truths can only be faced together.
Archaeologist Lin Yan’s world is built on data and documents, until a bizarre crime scene brings him face-to-face with Xiao Mo, who toys with copper coins and speaks of life and death with a smile. One wields a Luoyang shovel and carbon-dating reports; the other is versed in compasses and feng shui curses. They are two parallel lines that should never meet.
A mysterious bamboo slip and an ancestral copper coin bind them together. From haunted houses in the city to thousand-year-old imperial tombs, they are forced to work side by side, unraveling ancient riddles of death in one life-and-death crisis after another. Reason and intuition clash fiercely, then become the trust they can rely on when all hope seems lost.
But when every clue points to the secret history of tomb guardians buried in Lin Yan’s family past, and the blood-soaked curse borne by Xiao Mo’s sect, they discover that nothing is more unfathomable than the human heart, and nothing more perilous than the feelings quietly taking root between them.
This is an adventure that crosses the boundary between yin and yang, and a love that finds life in the face of death. As verdigris eats into their bones, only you and I are destined to be together.
