Chen Buyan’s world collapses completely on his twentieth birthday.
After fainting in the library, he wakes up to find that he can see things ordinary people cannot: threads of karma wrapped around the living, ghosts of obsession lurking in the shadows, and ancient taboos forgotten by time.
In a late-night study room, a sheet of human-skin paper tempts students to write their wills. In the depths of a mirror, a reflection reaches out and grips a living person by the throat. At midnight, a hearse carrying the dead drives through the city…
These seemingly unrelated supernatural incidents all point to the same secret: three thousand “Books of Fate,” recording the destinies of all living beings, are scattered across the human world. The library badge in his possession is the only key to retrieving them.
The aloof senior Bai Ye has an ancient evil spirit sealed inside her, and loses control every full moon. His good-for-nothing roommate Pang Ding is actually the reincarnation of the God of Fortune and Virtue, protected by golden light that makes him immune to all ghosts. The mysterious landlady Li Muxue can awaken the lingering souls within antiques, but is willing to descend into darkness to bring her daughter back to life.
As the blood moon rises, the barrier between reality and the spirit world shatters. The organization known as the “Ruin” emerges, and its ritual to summon the ancient evil god Taixu is nearing completion.
At last, Chen Buyan’s origins are revealed: he is the orphan of the last administrator of the “Reincarnation Library,” the “key” to restarting the world, and an anomaly capable of rewriting karma.
When everyone tells him this is fate, and that he should accept it…
Chen Buyan says only one thing:
“I don’t believe in fate.”
