My name is Shen Buyan. I used to be a forensic assistant; now I run a funeral supply shop.
Before he died, my grandfather left me a battered old ledger and said it could connect the worlds of yin and yang. I didn’t believe him, until a woman in white sat beside his memorial portrait and smiled at me.
The ledger doesn’t just let me see ghosts. It can replay causes of death, mediate contracts, and let me trade accumulated merit for new abilities.
So this is my daily routine: selling urns by day, solving cases for ghosts by night.
A child trapped in an elevator, desperate to go home; a living person lying in the morgue after being “mistaken for dead”; the sound of a piano coming from behind an old wall for ten years...
Other Taoist priests rely on magic to exorcise ghosts. I rely on forensic knowledge, criminal investigation skills, and a sharp tongue.
If a ghost refuses to cooperate, I just open the ledger: You still owe my grandfather three hundred yuan for incense from your previous life. Settle the bill before you start making trouble.
The horror is real, and so is the comedy.
Then one day, the ledger wrote down the name of a living person all by itself: Zheng Shouren, deputy director of the Office of Yin-Yang Mediation.
His lifespan is questionable.
