Set in the world of Mysterious Revival. The protagonist will meet Yang Jian later on, but the plot does not follow the original story.
Xu Yan is a contract worker at the Qingshi City Comprehensive Archives, twenty-four years old, responsible for restoring old files that have been damaged by damp, grown moldy, or had their numbers scrambled.
One night, the basement level two of the archives loses power. Security guard Old Chen vanishes from the surveillance footage, yet over the phone he tells Xu Yan to sign a file-transfer request.
The applicant listed on the request is Xu Yan. The handler is Xu Yan. The subject being retrieved is also Xu Yan.
File status: Deceased.
Time of death: May 4, 2026, at 2:17 a.m.
At the same time, a “Book-Borrowing Ghost” incident breaks out in Qingshi City. Anyone who has touched an old book without a title and admitted to reading its contents will disappear within seven days. The missing leave no corpses behind. Instead, they are torn into pages of life records, stuffed back into file folders, and returned to the old archives.
Xu Yan has no System, no resurrection, and no cheat ability that can kill ghosts.
He knows only one thing: ghosts cannot be killed. The only thing that can fight a ghost is another ghost.
To survive, he tears out the page listing his cause of death and accidentally gains control of the “Ghost Archive.” From that moment on, he can use incomplete files to temporarily seal one of a ghost’s rules. But each time he does, some of the records about him in reality disappear.
His ID card, contract, birth certificate, photographs, his family’s memories.
In the end, even the name “Xu Yan” may be nothing more than a temporary label the archives stuck on some dead person.
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