The Paper Doll He Made Came to Life

Mystery and the supernatural, with traditional ghost-story elements

Jiang Chengyan, a young inheritor of the old Republican-era paper shop “Wangsheng Studio,” struggles to make ends meet while upholding his family’s traditions in an age when electronic obituaries are commonplace. That is, until a mysterious customer brings him a “living person’s order”: to craft a paper bride who weeps tears of blood. The night the paper figure is finished, three local bullies die mysteriously. Jiang Chengyan discovers that the figure he made is slowly beginning to resemble the madwoman who met a gruesome death twenty years ago...

One-line synopsis

The paper figures I make always open their eyes in the dead of night.