Guo Kuo is the chief writer of the Linhe Town newspaper. He writes articles during the day and takes care of things at night. He handles weird things for people that ordinary people can't handle and the officialdom can't handle. A strange commission of a paper bride asking for her life draws him into a world of strange people that has been hidden for hundreds of years - there are puppet makers who can manipulate corpses, there is a ghost market that sells life spans, and there is a book of strange people who write who died. The center of all mysteries points to his master who disappeared three years ago. Now, a game that has been waiting for him for three years has begun.
