My name is Lin An, and I’m the new proprietor of the Xiezi Pawnshop. To be precise, I’m as good as dead.
Before my grandfather disappeared, he left me with one instruction: collect three cursed objects within a month, or the pawnshop will be yours, and your life will belong to them.
The first is a human-bone necklace. Wear it for seven days, and on the eighth, you’ll become its previous owner. The woman who brought it stood at the counter and smiled at me. “Proprietor, I can’t bear to take it off.”
But I’m a dying man. What do I have to fear?
An old house at the bottom of a river, a corpse with a coin in its mouth, a Nanyang Buddha Mother clutching a fortune: each object is more cursed than the last, and each one deadlier.
But as I collected them, I realized that every one of them pointed back to my grandfather.
And the last thread is tied to my own life.
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