Midnight Lantern Man

After a person dies, if there are unpaid grievances, the soul cannot enter the underworld. There is a kind of person in the world who lights up the lamp at midnight and goes about his business as usual, checking debts and sending away the souls of the dead. They are called - Lantern Men. Chen Zhaoye was just an ordinary owner of a used bookstore until the night of his twenty-fourth birthday when he received a black envelope. There is only one sentence in the letter: "Your life is borrowed. Someone will come to take it after the third watch." From that night on, he saw things that ordinary people couldn't see. The slow shot of myself in the mirror, the dead person knocking on the door at midnight, the blinking paper man in the paper shop, the old man holding a photo of his body in the elevator on the 13th floor, the shadowless passenger on the last bus... Behind every strange thing, there is an unpaid debt. In order to survive, Chen Zhaoye was forced to carry a lantern into the night, investigate cases for the dead, and ward off disasters for the living. But he soon discovered that the deeper he investigated, the heavier his life debt became. And all the clues ultimately point to the uninhabited village that did not exist on the map ten years ago. A life-borrowing ceremony was held there. Many people died there. It was also there that Chen Zhaoye knew for the first time—— He didn't live for twenty-four years. It's just that he has not been taken away after twenty-four years of death.