As the last heir to the art of paper effigy making, Chen Wuwang is forced into a bridal sedan chair and veiled with a bloodstained red bridal veil. He is about to become the sacrificial offering in a ghost king’s spirit wedding. Facing certain death, his eyes undergo a sudden transformation. The Eye of Qi Sight and Evil Extraction snaps open, revealing every hidden rule, loophole, and flow of death energy in the world of ghostly tales!
He pulls out bamboo strips and yellow paper, quickly fashioning a substitute bride, then bites his fingertip and uses his own blood to paint in its eyes. The paper effigy takes his place, reversing cause and effect! The red-clad vengeful ghost, once so haughty, is horrified to discover that its eerie essence is being drained by a paper effigy. Using nothing but the crude, forbidden methods of a paper effigy maker, Chen Wuwang shatters the ghostly tale’s rule of certain death!
The blood-soaked wedding banquet is only the beginning. The Netherworld Inn, the drowned City God, the human-skin ghost opera... As one great terror after another descends and even the gods shut their eyes, the only place that becomes the ultimate nightmare of every rule-bound ghost story is the paper effigy shop that always hangs white lanterns outside. Until one day, he fashions the shapes of countless gods and Buddhas out of paper and bamboo... In this world, who gets to decide the rules of life and death?
