Chen Mu is a forensic pathologist. Three years ago, his younger sister disappeared at a night market, and he quit his job to set up a wonton stall where she vanished. He has a secret: he can see the “life lamps” above the heads of those who are about to die. This is a story about waiting and forgetting. A bowl of wontons, a life lamp, and a city without shadows. Every person on the verge of death
