After his father goes missing, Lin Yan discovers a strange copy of the Tao Te Ching.
Every note in the book seems to point to one place: the Chengjiang Mining District.
There lies an underground mine tunnel that has been sealed for decades.
A secret that three generations of stoneworkers have risked everything to hide.
And a stone everyone is searching for, though no one knows its true worth.
Lin Yan only wanted to find his missing father.
But as he follows the clues his father left behind, step by step, he discovers that the father he saw as a failure, stubborn and responsible for destroying their family, had secretly spent twenty years protecting a secret that could never be revealed.
What lies at the end of the underground mine tunnel?
Why did his father choose to disappear?
What truth is hidden in the thing known as "Stone Skin"?
One stone entwines the fates of three generations.
One search leads a son to see his father in a new light.
This kind of mystical stuff is right up my alley; I hope the ending will surprise me.
The plot is tight and engaging.
What did you write, bro?