Changhua Secret Files: The Eight Trigrams Lock the Dragon

My name is Lin Mozhou, and I restore ancient books.

My daily life is spent in Moxiang Studio on Changhua Old Street, fighting the passage of time with tweezers and paste. This craft has been passed down from my great-grandfather, and my life should have been quiet and uneventful. That is, until my grandfather, a historian, mysteriously disappeared fifteen years ago, leaving a knot in my heart I could never mend.

I thought I’d spend my days looking after this run-down shop and rotting away with its piles of old papers.

Then, on a stormy night, a mysterious woman named Su Qingzhu came to me with a diary soaked beyond recognition. She said it came from the scene of the “Mother and Daughter Elevator Disappearance,” a case that had shocked all of Taiwan.

The fee she offered was absurdly high, and the strange symbol in the diary was identical to one on my grandfather’s belongings.

This wasn’t a job. It was bait.

When I used the secret art my grandfather left behind to restore this “nonexistent” diary, what I uncovered was a horrifying truth buried for a hundred years…