[Sequence]+ [Mystery]+ [Battle of Wits]+ [Infinite Flow]+ [Folk Customs]+ [Rule Horror]
Embalmer Xu An has a secret: he has no heartbeat, and his name doesn't appear in the Book of Life and Death.
His grandfather traded the lives of his entire clan to steal a dead infant back from the Hall of Yanluo.
That dead infant was him.
At a ghost wedding stage, a paper figure offers him a cup of nuptial wine.
Xu An tosses a copper coin into the cup. “By decree: I am already dead.”
The lie becomes reality. The dead don't drink the living's wine.
In Paper Figure Village, where the taboo is “go mad at the sight of blood,” he disguises his own blood as tree sap.
At the City God Temple, where one can borrow years of life, he uses “debt settlement” to override the “substitute death” rule.
The Judge's brush hangs over his head, waiting to write his name and claim his soul.
Each time he uses a copper coin, he loses part of what makes him human.
His sense of touch, his sense of taste, his fingers, his hearing.
The copper coin is 30% repaired. The next lie will cost him a memory.
If I lie one more time, I might forget... who I am.
Through all suffering, all beings may find deliverance. I am dead, yet even Heaven won't claim me.
