Shen Qingya has died once. Now he has to die again every month.
As an “unregistered soul” in the Book of Life and Death, he loses 30 days of yin lifespan every 30 days. To keep from being erased from existence, he opens a pawnshop that specializes in fulfilling the final wishes of the dead, borrowing their yang lifespan to extend his own. Paper figures brought to life with painted eyes, the living used as stakes, ghost soldiers passing through… In a world where lifespan is money, he is a “fate defier” who walks between yin and yang.
Until he finds his master, Lu Jiuyuan's, face inside a fake corpse.
Even more horrifying, a bloodstained research file reveals that he was never an avenger, but the perfect vessel cultivated for four hundred years by the Life-Stealing Sect. When the countdown reaches zero, he must either become a new Heavenly Dao who harvests the yang lifespan of billions, or… give his life back to the female insurance investigator probing his identity.
[Lifespan economics × feng shui horror tales × power struggles within the system] [Unregistered reader alert: Your yin lifespan balance is under 30 days. Please kill promptly… no, renew your subscription promptly]
