The Ghost Coffin

In the 1950s, Xu Muqing followed a land-reclamation team to a remote mountain village in northern Guizhou to work in the countryside, where he unexpectedly became caught up in a strange incident.

Forty years later, in Jiangling, Hubei.

A flood caused by torrential rain washed away the Dragon King Temple, and someone dug a black coffin buried beneath its statue out of the ground.

Jing Ming, an archaeological team member, joined his teacher in excavating and protecting the site. Unexpectedly, something went wrong after they opened the coffin.

Inside was a strange, rotting corpse. Hidden in a compartment of its backpack was a passage from the deceased's diary, recalling his time as a sent-down youth.

Strangely, why was the body of a young man named Xu Muqing in a coffin from a thousand years ago? Who was the mysterious gold-paper shopkeeper in the diary, and what was the lifelong debt of gratitude he could never repay? There was also a man in a yellowed old photograph who looked exactly like him!

An underground river stretching for over a thousand kilometers, subterranean caves piled with bones, a cursed black coffin, ghostly figures in a mountain village, an ancient pig-headed, human-bodied totem, and a sinkhole... What secrets lie buried in the depths of this karst landscape?

Plagued by frequent nightmares, he set out for Yunmen Village to trace the mystery to its source and find the "self" in the photograph.

Xu Muqing / Guitang Dong

Jing Ming / Tang Zhao

This story isn't professional and has no logic. Some place names are fictional, so don't read too much into them.

The plot comes from the author's imagination. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.

Theme: Harmony between humanity and nature