The Fear-Soothing Shop

Don’t open this novel in the middle of the night! The protagonist runs a shop in Nanjing that helps people ward off evil spirits and calm their fright. He thinks it’s just a way to make a living, until one rainy night, a woman rushes into his shop and says her husband vanished into thin air at the foot of Baohua Mountain.

I went to investigate, and after a fishpond was drained, an ancient well over a thousand years old appeared beneath it, covered in talismans! Buried inside was none other than the head of the Jianwen Emperor! And someone had pried open the seal from the outside!

My master, Old Zhong, went alone to guard the well, risking his life to give me a slim chance of survival. He told me to ask the old abbot of Longchang Temple for help. But when I ran up the mountain, the abbot revealed an even more terrifying truth: the mastermind behind all this was hiding right by our side!

The Calming Shop: starting at Baohua Mountain, the story takes us to the Miao poison witches of western Hunan, spirit mediums of the Northeast, Coffin Mountain in western Sichuan... Every supernatural case reveals a truth bought with someone’s life!