In Nanjiang's old town, there are plenty of ghosts, and even more people pretending to be ghosts.
Bai Lu opens a folk-custom investigation office that takes on cases involving "hauntings." She doesn't perform rituals; she investigates. A tape of a bride's lament, ancestral tablets that have shifted in the shrine, medicine hidden in talisman water. Every "ghost," once examined, turns out to be human.
Until she touches that bright red wedding dress and sees the ghost wedding night from twenty-one years ago; until she digs up the cellar beneath the City God Temple and uncovers a register from 1941. It turns out some "rules" grew out of piles of the dead.
She's afraid of the dark. But every case she investigates lets her speak up for someone who can never go home.
