From the Start, My Yin Eyes Let My Coffin Shop Connect to the Yellow Springs

History graduate student Lin Beichen’s life hits rock bottom after his thesis is rejected and his girlfriend breaks up with him. Then, as if things couldn’t get worse, his grandfather in the countryside dies suddenly, leaving him a rundown coffin shop called Longevity Hall. While handling the funeral arrangements, Lin discovers a metal filing cabinet in a hidden room beneath the shop. Inside are dozens of yellowed notebooks documenting investigations into bizarre incidents across the country over the past century. Even more shocking, the words “Yin Gate” appear repeatedly in the files, and the Yin Gate turns out to be deeply entangled with the history of the Lin family. The cover of the first file reads: “If you have opened this cabinet, the road to the underworld is already open to you.” Beginning with the first case, “The Ghost Marriage Murder,” Lin Beichen is forced into a shadowy world hidden beneath folk beliefs. He gradually discovers that the stories dismissed as superstition across China conceal terrifying truths beyond reason. And a conspiracy spanning hundreds of years is closing in on him, step by step...