Sewing the Yellow Springs

Core tags: Chinese Horror | Folk Mystery | Traditional Craftsmanship | Smart Protagonist

Chen Yizhen's grandfather was a corpse seamster. Before he died, he sewed himself a pair of red embroidered shoes and warned Chen never to look back on the night of his seventh-day memorial. But when that night came, the sound outside the door wasn't footsteps. It was the squelch of a needle piercing flesh, over and over...

The souls of those who die violent deaths are filled with resentment. Only a yin-yang thread can sew their broken bodies together and fool the judges below. Chen Yizhen never wanted to take up such an ill-omened trade, until the village's richest man's daughter hanged herself from the old locust tree at the village entrance, dressed in a bright red wedding gown. The wealthy man knelt before Chen with a hundred thousand yuan in cash, begging him to prepare his daughter's body.

Chen picked up the bone needle his grandfather had left behind. But the moment he cut open the dead woman's clothes, he discovered that her belly had been sewn around half a living person, still writhing!

When ancient funeral taboos are torn apart by greed, a mysterious curse begins to spread through the entire village. He has no divine power to protect him. All he has is this disreputable corpse-sewing craft and a mad heart more ruthless than any ghost or god. Against all odds, he sews a path to survival through a dead-end where death seems certain!

"The King of Hell says you'll die at the third watch. With this needle, I'll keep you here until the fifth!"