Lin Du, an undertaker at a funeral home with four hundred thousand yuan in debt, was born with a pair of “debt-settling eyes.” He could see every debt clinging to the dead.
Debts of life clung to the heart; money debts wound around the fingers; debts of love circled the marks left by rings.
Until the accounts were settled, the souls could not rest.
So Lin Du did more than make up the dead. He settled their accounts too: recovering unpaid wages, catching murderers, exposing insurance fraud, and fulfilling last wishes...
The little funeral home’s storefront became the busiest “peace-of-mind solutions provider” in the city. The dead lined up to ask him to lay their souls to rest, while the living lined up to have him examine their loved ones’ bodies.
Then one day, he suddenly realized that the four-hundred-thousand-yuan debt on his own account seemed to be coming due.
The dead cannot speak, but corpses never lie.
