Chen Jiudu is eighteen and has just received his university acceptance letter. His life is only just beginning.
Then his grandfather dies a violent death. On the seventh night after his passing, the corpse in the coffin knocks on the lid three times.
Only then does Chen Jiudu learn that the Chen family has borne a "coffin debt" for generations. A century ago, an ancestor ferried a forbidden main coffin for someone and incurred an enormous debt to the underworld. Each year a descendant lives costs them one year of their allotted lifespan. The only way to stay alive is to keep ferrying ominous coffins.
His grandfather took the final coffin curse in his place, then lay down in the coffin he had made himself.
From that day on, Chen Jiudu became the last coffin-burying ferryman of the dead.
He doesn't exorcise ghosts or hunt demons. He ferries coffins, the souls of the dead, and fate itself.
A lone coffin on a rainy night, the coffin of a child who died unjustly, a cursed coffin with its ropes snapped halfway along the road, a blank, empty coffin, a blood-red bridal coffin... Behind every ominous coffin lies an injustice, and each one points back to the buried massacre that wiped out a family a century ago.
Every coffin he carries lifts another seal from that time...
And awakens the ultimate evil.
Three ironclad rules: Never carry a blank, empty coffin. Never carry a blood-red bridal coffin. Never carry a coffin bound with dragon-subduing chains.
But the very first job he receives is to carry a blank, empty coffin that has been sitting there for a hundred years.
