[Urban Supernatural] [Folk Mysteries] [Qimen Feng Shui] [Folk Occult Arts] [Wild Imagination] [Celestial Master] [Curses] [First Person]
My name is Shen Fan. I’m 23, with an ordinary bachelor’s degree. After moving to this city, I sent out more than a hundred resumes and went to dozens of interviews. In the end, all I got was, “We’ll be in touch.”
After hitting a wall everywhere, I started driving for a ride-hailing service in the secondhand hybrid SUV my dad gave me, spending every night shuttling between bars, KTVs, and upscale residential complexes.
I never imagined that this desperate choice would let me see another world.
The strange events began with a ride to a funeral home. After that, one eerie “passenger” and one bizarre incident followed another.
Still shaken, I had no choice but to seek help from my maternal grandfather, who ran a funeral shop on the old street.
The day after handing down his legacy, my grandfather left me only a yellowed copy of The Record of Soul Retrieval and a note: “I have to leave for a while. From now on, you can do what you like with the shop. Don’t come looking for me.”
And just like that, I was tied to this funeral shop, piled high with incense, candles, and offerings of paper money.
After that, my nights were no longer just trips from point A to point B.
I began studying what my grandfather had left behind, identifying wandering spirits and resolving their obsessions,
and even battling evil entities that sought to disrupt the order between yin and yang.
On this road leading into the depths of the human heart and the netherworld beyond the Yellow Springs, I gradually came to understand that what my grandfather left me was not just a shop for the dead, but a calling: to be an urban soul retriever who protects the balance between the human world and the supernatural.
This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental!
It's a pretty good book, I recommend everyone to read it [original book party] [already planted] [plus one on bookshelf]