Chen Ya was sacrificed to death by the whole village with his eyes and tongue cut out. Seven days later, he returned with his eyes open, there was coating under his tongue, and he could hear the death rattles. He did not cry out for injustice or ask for help. He only used his bloody footprints to step back inch by inch to the ancestral hall where thirty-seven corpses were buried. Liu Jiuniang laughed by the stove, the lame blacksmith secretly polished the iron chain, and the girl in red skirt counted his steps at the mouth of the well... No one in this village dared to say the word "human". And Chen Ya knew - he was not resurrected, but was chosen as a sacrifice. Every time he took a step, someone in the village would leave. He is not an avenger, but a key to the living sacrifice. When the last soul-suppressing stone cracks, who is the real evil ghost?
