Beyond the Genealogy

After a person dies, his or her name is recorded, the tablet is returned to the ancestral hall, and the incense continues, that is, he has a place to go. Shen Yan used to think so too. It wasn't until he returned to Shenjia Village that he saw with his own eyes that his death date was written in advance in the family tree, that the thirteenth ancestral seat was vacant, and that those in the family register had been borrowed, inherited, or died on behalf of others. He gradually understood that the so-called clan etiquette may not be to protect future generations, but a secret technique left behind by humans after a certain ancient disaster. Names, bloodlines, sacrifice marks, ancestral graves, marriage certificates, reflections, paper bodies... Everything may become a clue to be found. And Shen Yan is the name that should not be written down among all the pedigrees.