Pallbearer

In the winter of the sixth year of the Republic of China, forensic doctor Shen Gu woke up and found himself tied in a coffin. He climbed out of the coffin, conducted an autopsy in public, and used modern forensic knowledge to prove that the female body died of murder. The ghost appeared, the real murderer was brought to justice, and Shen Gu became the "god man" in the town. But that night, a rickety old scholar knocked on his door and took out a blood-stained shadow puppet from his sleeve—— "Hangsheng, this thing comes to me every night." Shadow puppets can move, cry, and kill people. It points to a theater troupe thirty miles away that was burned to the ground, to thirteen craftsmen who died tragically, and to a mysterious organization called the "Eternal Life Society." From then on, Shen Gu was involved in a century-old conspiracy related to the inheritance of craftsmen. Shadow puppets, blood porcelain, ancient kilns, tea ceremonies... Nine crafts, nine fragments, nine lives. He met the stubborn shadow puppet descendant Wei Ling'er, met the secretive Uncle Zheng, and met people who died to protect their craft. He wants to speak for the dead and maintain his art for the living. But when he finally gathered the fragments and opened the craftsman's door, he found—— The real enemy is always around.