[Urban + Investiture of the Gods + Ghosts and Monsters + Immortals and Demons + Primordial World + Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio + Multiple Heroines + Forbidden Objects + Episodic Stories + Everyday Life + Western Mythology + Western Fantasy]
Jiang Zishou inherited a strange old pawnshop, along with a curse that had held him captive for countless ages.
The sunlight by day scorched his soul, and he could not step outside the shop. Only when darkness fell could he briefly venture into the world beyond.
The shop held forbidden artifacts from strange realms across the world: antiques marked with seal-script codes, a spare mourning staff left behind by Bai Wuchang, a purified rain vase that could summon winds and clouds, and many other dangerous, unpredictable treasures.
Anyone else who touched these forbidden objects would suffer disaster and die. Thanks to the blessings of humanity, he alone was immune to their backlash.
The pawnshop dealt not in gold or silver, but in obsessions, memories, and attachments: the things people held most dear.
Ghostly domains plagued the city outskirts, evil spirits ran rampant in the mortal world, the Shouheng Bureau came to seek his help, and all kinds of customers knocked on the old shop door.
Confined to a single shop, he wielded pawning as a blade and took up forbidden objects to pass judgment between the realms of the living and the dead, redeeming all the things people could not let go of.
But the curse still hung over him like a shackle, and the price he would have to pay had yet to come due.
