Under the Mirror

I touch the dead and read their last memories. It's a gift and a curse. Until the girl who drowned on Ghost Festival took out a copper coin with my name engraved on it. My name is Lu Chen, the "corpse collector" of the Folk Customs and Taboo Administration Bureau. My job is to make corpses talk and uncover the mysterious causes of death that remain hidden in the shadows of the city. But I found that every strange folklore case - a water burial to borrow a life, a copper coin with a name on it, an ancient mirror with blood - is like a puzzle piece, pointing to the same dark core. And I am the last piece of the puzzle that has been scheduled for thirty years. An unfinished sacrifice, a "mirror pupil" system that monitors all living beings, a "father" who raised me as an adult but personally pushed me to the altar. They told me this was my destiny. But if the so-called fate means being plotted by loved ones, being haunted by the souls of the dead, and becoming the cornerstone of others' eternal life—— Then I will touch death with these hands, Tear open the "Under the Eyes of the Mirror" that covers everything and see who those eyes behind the scenes are. People know that ghosts are scary, and ghosts know that people's hearts are poisonous. This time, what the corpse collector wants to collect is the poison that has lasted for thirty years in people's hearts.