Down the Road to the Underworld

My new novel, The Ghost Gate: Knowing Like Wood, goes live on October 16. Please follow me on Weibo for details. Weibo: Touching, Whose Descriptions Just Keep Getting Longer She looks like an ordinary shampoo girl, but she can see the secrets hidden deep in every customer's heart. A twisting, suspenseful journey, a healing ending, and just deserts for good and evil. Heaven knows, earth knows, you know, and I know. What does it mean to know nothing? In the unseen world, rewards and punishments are already decided. Good or evil, near or far, sooner or later, everyone gets what they deserve. In every reckoning, right and wrong are clear. Happy Ending I'm terrible at writing blurbs, so here's the plot summary: The story is divided into two volumes. The first half of Volume One contains more than a dozen short, twisty tales, each titled after a nursery rhyme. They span all walks of life and social classes, with all kinds of wild ideas and coincidences no one could ever guess. There is not only a rich young heir falling in love with a Cinderella, but also a poor delivery rider and a front-desk receptionist; not only romances between young men and women, but also a twilight romance between an elderly couple; not only international love, but also a love that outlasts death; not only romance, family bonds, and friendship, but also revenge, justice, and reunion. In the second half of Volume One, all these little stories become clues that reveal the truth about something that happened thirty years ago. In Volume Two, the protagonist is an adult, facing challenges entirely different from those of childhood. There is romance, case-solving, traps, and plot twists. The plot is cohesive, the styles varied, and the story swings from quiet to grand. It all begins with an unusual haunting in a women's restroom at work, leading to one bizarre and uncanny case after another. “Do you believe in this saying? That every little thing in the world that seems to have nothing to do with anything else is, when you get down to it, deeply connected.” *The two volumes have different styles. They can be read separately without affecting each other, and both have happy endings. *This is fiction featuring criminal investigation, suspense, and fantasy elements. Please don't force a realistic interpretation onto it. *This is a BG novel, but some minor characters may be LGBT. They are only bit players and have no interaction with the protagonists. My next novel: Three-and-a-Half Lines of Jianghu Completed works: White Night, Asking the Rice, Ghosts in the Clouds, Phoenix Spirit, The Road to Redemption Upcoming works: Eleven Cuts, The Sky City South of Swan Sea's North Shore, Heart-Pounding Zoo Essay: A Chat About Talent Shows Over the Years Weibo: Touching, Whose Descriptions Just Keep Getting Longer Theme: Through deeply satisfying, suspenseful twists and turns, this story expresses a simple belief in justice: good and evil have their due, and people make their own fate. It also celebrates the genuine mutual understanding between the male and female leads.