Tangshi Weilu
唐市诡录
by I Would Like to Follow My Example (谨效言言)
- Status
- Ongoing
- Length
- 66k Words
- Chapters
- 13
- Genre
- Multi-Orientation
- Updated
- 21d ago
- Source
- JJWXC
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Kaiyuan Chang'an, a dry well connected to the ground was sealed by the strange snow of the Double Ninth Festival. During the day, it was a Western Market grocery store, and at night it became a ghost market where yin and yang met. Li Mu, a down-and-out Imperial College student, was wrongly imprisoned. In order to find clues to overturn the case and find a way out, he borrowed bone talismans to go to the ruins, made a living as a ghostwriter, and dealt with the three factions. The rules of the ghost market are cold and cruel: you cannot give your real name, the goods cannot be returned, your life span will be shortened if you make a contract, and the secrets you see must not be made public. The green flags on the East Street, the red wood on the West Street, and the iron boat in the culvert are three-legged balances. The scale center market sacrifice, the autumn scale hidden mark, and the Hanyi market hide the undercurrents of the underground. Yongchang ancient porcelain has withered in dust, face-changing silk, longevity deeds, carved jade pendants and other strange objects are involved in decades-old cases. Li Mu peeled off the remains of broken porcelain, old account books, and secret letters from the dark post, and got acquainted with the dark post Su Weilan who was burdened with his life experience, the old accountkeeper Tie Abacus, and the butcher shop Tu Jiu. He also encountered his former classmate Chu who had transformed into a pawn of a powerful minister. The ghost market looks like a black market trading place, but in fact it hides a monstrous secret of corruption in the court, theft of imperial tombs, and the secret schemes of internal servants and dignitaries. The rift between the three gangs gradually emerged, the prime minister secretly sold his official position, and the puppet market forces secretly seized power. The old grievances of the old market owners and the pain of separation of the Anyi clan all came to the surface. The boat moves silently in the underground canal, and the scale bone lamp shines brightly, illuminating people's hearts with greed and fear. Li Mu holds three secret jade and the iron certificate of the broken contract in his hand, and travels between the Yin and Yang realms, solving strange things in the ruins while facing the power struggle in the court. From the ignorant struggle to survive when he first entered the ghost market, to seizing all the evidence of the rich and powerful seeking personal gain, he tore open a layer of bloody truth that had been concealed for sixteen years under the intertwined reality of Chang'an, and finally decided to burn the deed and return to the city to liquidate all the evil debts in the market. Purpose: The ruins are a metaphor for the human heart: there are no evil spirits in the underground ghost market. What is truly terrifying is the human greed of exchanging life for wealth and power for secrets. Black market contracts, tomb robbing private files and other transactions are used to expose the greed and betrayal spurred by fame and fortune.