A contemporary folklore horror novel based on Chinese rural funeral folklore. When Lin Wang returned home in a hurry from a first-tier city, what greeted him was not a death that could be wiped out by the word "sorrow", but a set of rules that must be followed: keeping a wake, mourning, leaving a light on, burning carriages and horses to send the son off when he was cremated, throwing bowls to cut off worries, and not speaking back on the way back. But that night, he almost looked back.
After the ashes were buried, the funeral seemed to be over, but small strange phenomena kept appearing in the home: footsteps lingered outside the threshold, the eyes of the portrait seemed to chase people, the ashes were rearranged by someone, and someone called him "Wang Yazi" with a familiar voice in his dream. As the first seven days are approaching, the three forked roads at the entrance of the village have become the gateway for the soul to return. Only by answering, not answering, and not looking back can the deceased make the final journey.
When the "rules" were no longer just superstitions, but like a piece of living paper spread out in the dark, Lin Wang finally understood: what his grandfather kept during his lifetime was not a lamp, but a debt spanning several generations.
