Urban Fantasy · Supernatural Powers · Episodic Stories · Healing · Classic of Mountains and Seas
Lu Qingya was born with yin-yang eyes and was treated like a freak from childhood.
After his grandfather dies, he returns to the old family home in a deserted village and unexpectedly inherits an ancestral book, the Register of Shan Hai Demons. It records the true names of the strange beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas who have strayed into the human world. Legend says that returning their true names can free the demons and bring people good fortune.
Keeping him company beside the book is a sharp-tongued but soft-hearted three-tailed white fox, who says its surname is Bai and claims to have lived for countless years.
From then on, a man and a fox travel through the towns and villages:
helping a lost Huan find its voice again,
seeing off the general on behalf of the Shuhu who guards his tomb,
offering a long-overdue promise to a paper figure that has waited sixty years...
Behind every demon is someone they cannot let go of.
Every name returned is a solemn farewell.
Someone asks what he'll do once he's returned every name.
Lu Qingya looks up at the white fox sprawled on the roof, basking in the sun.
“We'll see when the time comes.”
On the mountain of Yiwang, there is a beast. Its shape is like a raccoon, with one eye and three tails. Its sound is like hundreds of sounds, and its name is .