[Chinese Folk Traditions | Infinite Regress | Urban Legends | Mystery and Twists]
At two in the morning, Chen Mo, a night-shift delivery driver, received the strangest order of his life.
Delivery address: the abandoned forest ranger's hut atop Blackstone Mountain.
There was only one cold line in the instructions: After delivery, knock three times and leave at once. Do not look back.
It was his forty-ninth delivery of the night, but as he set down the food and turned to leave, a hoarse whisper came from behind him:
“You're delivering the fiftieth order.”
In the rain, a pair of bloodstained red embroidered shoes lay by his feet. A pale figure peered through the crack in the door, staring intently at his back.
Chen Mo died, but time rewound to the moment he accepted the order.
Trapped in an endless cycle of death, each loop brought him one step closer to the secret of a ghost marriage from the Republic of China era, more than eighty years ago.
A guide's copper coin, a blood talisman to subdue corpses, a coffin in a limestone cave...
He gradually discovered that he wasn't the only “funeral courier” struggling against an inescapable curse in this city's dead of night.
The fiftieth delivery had never been the end. It was the only way to break the deadlock and survive.
Look back, and you die. Dare to look back, and you can see the truth.
