[Urban Supernatural Powers + Feng Shui and Divination + Folk Legends + Face-Slapping Satisfaction]
Zhou Yao is a small-time crook who runs a street stall in Panjiayuan, selling “imitation antiques” and occasionally reading fortunes or checking feng shui to make ends meet.
Before his grandfather dies, he presses a locked tin box into Zhou Yao’s hands. “The fate of three generations of the Zhou family is in this box.”
Three years later, the box opens. Inside is The Record of Spirit Walkers, left behind by a spirit-walking master from the Republican era.
From then on, Zhou Yao can see what ordinary people can’t, understand paper figures when they talk, and travel between the realms of yin and yang.
Paper figures claiming lives, ghost marriages, a fox spirit possessing someone, a river god taking a bride, Miao village witchcraft...
One folk mystery after another comes looking for him, and one swindler after another gets a taste of his face-slapping.
From a street-corner “fortune teller” to a renowned “folk geomancer,” Zhou Yao has just one thing to say:
“This’ll cost extra.”
