"Paper Ash" is an infinite flow novel based on Chinese folk ghost stories.
Chen Du, a graduate student in the Department of Architecture, woke up and knelt in a ruined temple. The statue faces the wall and its back to the world. The withered locust trees in the courtyard are covered with faded red cloth strips. Each strip has a rule of ghost story written on it, which will lead to death if you remove it. There is no turning back when you borrow the road, a substitute is needed to send the king's ship, and the wedding team will not leave if the crying bride cannot cry. Thirty copies, thirty kinds of order, the real price of each level is not death, but every time you use strength outside the rules, you become part of the rules.
The reincarnations in this temple have no points or redemptions, and their power only comes from one thing: what you want and how much you want it. What Chen Du wants is one thing - the truth about his mother's disappearance. He didn't know that the answer was not at the end of the copy, but on the side of the statue facing the wall.
Outside the temple, the former criminal police have spent twenty years tracking hundreds of unclassifiable disappearances. He cannot enter the copy, but there is a fiber from a yellow sweater in his file - it is a road sign left by Chen Du's mother. The ashes of the two worlds drifted in the same direction.
"What is the opposite of the rule?" The statue has been facing the wall for three hundred years, waiting not for an answer, but for someone to answer it.
This is a novel about obsession, cost and being remembered. The paper burned to ashes, the ashes floated into the city, the city lights were turned on, and someone remembered.
