The Yellow River is alive.
It has its own rules - the seven drowned heads will stand on the water and call out their names. Thirty-seven corpses from eighty years ago are locked in the sunken ship at the bottom of the river. Every July 15th, the eyes on the cliff will open and stare at every living person on the river.
Shen Yan was just a graduate student writing a thesis until he dug out an ancient ancestral book in the abandoned river temple.
From that night on, he saw things he shouldn't have seen - the water ghost had three heads, the river god's wedding procession came up from the bottom of the river, the iron bull that held the river loosened every sixty years, and his great-grandfather's bones were locked in a thirty-meter-deep sunken city waiting for him.
Every time he solves the mystery, the river god will take away something from him - memory, emotions, senses, and life span.
He knew the truth lay at the bottom of the river.
But every time he took a step closer, he lost a part of himself.
Strange things happen in the Yellow River, and the rules threaten life. Shen Yan, the descendant of the river patroller, uses his eyes to see the yin and yang. Every time he breaks a game, he loses something of himself. The truth lies at the bottom of the river, and the price is the rest of your life.
