Unnamed County Chronicle

When Zhou Xu woke up, he had become the new county magistrate of the Dayong Dynasty. But on the first day he arrived in Wuming County, a funeral procession was parked outside the city gate. Lying in the coffin was another person exactly like him. His name is written on the spiritual tablet. Deep in the county government office, there is also an "Unnamed County Chronicle" that can write itself: "On the third day of May in the seventeenth year of Jinghe, the new magistrate Xie Linchuan arrived in Wuming County and died violently the next day." Here, county annals do not record history, but determine history. If a village is recorded as dead, the living will gradually decay; if the name is deleted, relatives and friends will forget it; if a village disappears from the county annals, its roads, fields and ancestral graves will also disappear together. If he wants to live until dawn, Zhou Xu must overturn his own death date before the cock crows. But as the investigation deepened, he discovered that everyone in Wuming County was burdened with a contradictory history. An aristocratic family that was exterminated a hundred years ago still controls the land in the county; The female head catcher who died of the plague fifteen years ago is still walking the streets; The non-existent village reappears every night; All previous county magistrates died on the tenth day after taking office. But in the state archives, there is only one sentence from beginning to end—— There has never been an unnamed county in Dayong. When history books can kill people, identities can be forged, and the truth can be deleted by power, an imposter magistrate can only use documents as a knife and evidence as a bureau to fight for a way out for a group of "people who shouldn't exist" between the clan, the government, and old history. But Zhou Xu never thought about it: Perhaps the person who should not exist in Wuming County has always been himself. County records can change life and death, and can determine the namelessness of people in the world. I will write for them.