The novel is inspired by one of my favorite Douyin bloggers: Ms. Zhao Dandan!
Hidden in the deep alleys of the old city is an old shop without a door.
The shop specializes in incense, candles, talismans and folk instruments, but the owner Shen Tang is a young girl with clear features.
One day, she received a paulownia wood box, which contained a blurry bronze mirror, an ancient coin wrapped with red thread, and half a yellowed map.
Who sent the stuff? When she was wondering, a strange figure suddenly reflected in the bronze mirror - no, that was not a human being.
From that day on, the incense in her shop can be burned to both the living and the dead. As long as she can pay the price, she can accept business from both the Yin and Yang worlds.
My mother, who had been missing for many years, got new clues through a transaction. Holding the half of the map, she stepped into the foggy past.
A strange transaction led her to meet two people who would share life and death together - she was looking for her mother, and they each had their own obsessions to solve.
It's just that of these two people, one has a strange fate, and the other's life experience is a mystery.
The three of them broke through the underground river together, walked through the deserted village, crossed the Netherworld Sea, and climbed over the Hanging Soul Ridge.
In the end, when the chess game was about to unfold, I discovered that every encounter was an arrangement, and every dangerous journey was a calculation.
The transactions made with ghosts and gods must be compensated with the most precious things after all.
(The customs, geography, and history involved in this article are all fictitious. Please do not correspond to reality, and there is no need to delve into it.)
Concept: Supernatural stories, urban legends