Something was wrong with a girl from the moment she was born. The day she came into the world, ghosts wailed and howled. Her grandmother was a spirit medium, and she made a deal with the Ghost King worshipped by the family: the girl would live safely until she turned fifteen, and on her fifteenth birthday, she would marry the Ghost King.
The girl always thought her grandmother was just trying to scare her. Then, two days before her fifteenth birthday, her parents suddenly hanged themselves. Before they died, they wrote a message in blood telling her to run. On the night of her birthday, the courtyard was full of ghosts, and the family’s statue of the Ghost King opened its eyes.
Terrified out of her wits, the girl tried to flee but couldn’t. Then she remembered a charm pouch her mother had given her before she died, left behind by her grandmother. Inside were a key and a note telling her to go to the cellar, pry up the third brick, and find her “father.”
But there was a problem: her father had just died, and his body was still hanging in the main hall. How could there be another father in the cellar?
Before the Ghost King came to claim her as his bride, the girl had to go down into the cellar, find that man, and ask him who he really was and what her marriage to the Ghost King had to do with him.
