[Folk Horror Mystery] [Hilarious Parent-Child Comedy] [Adorable Kid Serves Up Face-Slapping] [Crushing Everyone with an Information Advantage]
Everyone in Elm Tree Gully knew that Nannan, the three-and-a-half-year-old girl from the paper funeral goods shop, was a “bad omen.” On the night of a funeral, she pointed at the coffin while eating candied hawthorn on a stick. “Dad, you burned it the wrong way. The uncle in the coffin is crying.” The villagers were furious, calling her a jinx. Led by the clan chief, they tried to drive her out of the village. But that very night, evil energy surged beneath the old locust tree, and the entire village was possessed! Retribution came swiftly, and underworld enforcers shackled their souls. The adults who had once held themselves above everyone else were so terrified their legs went weak. The clan chief knelt at the door of the paper goods shop, swallowing his pride. “Nannan, Grandpa was wrong. Please, save me!”
Nannan sighed and held out her chubby little hand. “One rule for one candy. And let me make this clear: if anyone bullies my grandpa or my dad, I’ll send a ghost after them!”
Ghost marriages, borrowing years of life, sky lantern rituals... In a world where the living have broken the rules, only a three-and-a-half-year-old girl can speak the truth and set things right. But no one in the village knows that each time she speaks, she uses up her own lifespan to mend the cracks in the world. “If nobody believes in the real rules, then I’ll make you listen on your knees!”
