My name is Wen Shu, I am thirty-two years old and my profession is a folk culture consultant. To put it bluntly, it is to deal with those inexplicable things for others - the noise in the old house in the middle of the night, the black water rising from the ancestral grave, and the stone coffin dug out at the construction site. This profession sounds mysterious, but after working for five years, I understand a truth: Behind all the seemingly haunted things in the world, there is a truth buried by time. And my job is to dig through the soil and find the truth.
My partner's name is Xie Jingzhe, a cultural relic restorer. His hands can mend broken porcelain for thousands of years, and he can also find every loose floor tile in the dark tomb passage. We met in the ear room of a Tang tomb. He was being choked by a machine doll. I climbed in through the robbery hole and hit the back of the thing's head. When the brick was smashed down, a handful of sawdust and springs fell out - it was not a ghost at all, but a trap set by the ancients.
From then on, we teamed up and traveled all over the country, digging through more than a dozen old graves and overturning dozens of coffins. We write down the cases we have experienced one by one, not to scare people, but to let future generations know that the real ghosts in this world are never in graves, but in the hearts of living people.
Each of these subsequent cases was rumored to be a supernatural incident, and each one eventually found the informant hiding behind the scenes.
And we are just recorders.
——Wen Shu Ji
Intention: The right path in the world is the vicissitudes of life