Chen Ye is thirty-three. After ten years in real estate marketing, he is finally transferred back to his hometown of Wuhe County to take over a development that hasn't sold a single apartment in half a month.
On his first night at work, the entire development suddenly loses power.
In the darkness, the long-abandoned handover announcement system comes to life on its own:
“Owner Chen Guanshan of Building 17, Unit 2, please come to complete the handover.”
But Building 17 has only one unit.
And Chen Guanshan is Chen Ye's father, who disappeared twenty-five years ago.
Then an old woman who died long ago arrives with an old contract to claim her home. Twelve nonexistent apartments appear in the sales system. And in the underground old city, twelve deregistered homeowners are still waiting to take possession of their homes.
From a nonexistent second unit to Ward 13, which has no patients, from seven women who can never clock out to the buried accounts of an entire county, Chen Ye gradually discovers:
People have meridians, houses have beam-veins, cities have street-veins, and mountains and rivers have earth-veins.
Cultivating the earth-veins is not about changing feng shui or seeking wealth and status.
It means helping those erased by the words “processed,” “relocated,” and “handed over” reclaim the lives they never got to finish.
For twenty-five years, his father was never repairing houses.
He was tending to the lives beneath them.
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