Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty: The Paper Doll Walks at Night

During the Tang Dynasty, Su Wuming, Lu Lingfeng, and their companions pass through Baishui County. Caught in a torrential downpour, they are forced to spend the night in town. That night, thirteen paper figures silently walk down the main street. One of them bears the words: “At midnight tonight, Lu Lingfeng will die.”

The next day, a murder shakes the county. The victim has paper ash in their mouth, and beneath an old canal, an unsolved case from twenty years ago resurfaces: the disappearance of a group of laborers. Paper figures that walk by themselves at night, twelve laborers who never returned home, work records deliberately erased, and a mysterious woman who has returned to Baishui...

While everyone believes the paper figures are claiming lives, Su Wuming discovers that...

The truly terrifying thing has never been ghosts.

It is someone using ghosts as a cover to kill, one by one, the secrets buried for twenty years.