I Spend the Long Night Filling in the Names of the Dead

This city burns the names of the dead in exchange for thousands of lights: and my job is to write the names back. Twelve years ago, miner Yu Sansuo died in a mining accident. His household registration was cancelled, and his funeral money was paid. Twelve years later, his body was laid in the Qingwu City morgue again. Liang Shu was the most inconspicuous registration official in the city. He usually verified the registrations of the deceased and added the names of those who "never existed." He can hear the names left by the dead from the ashes, and borrows their most proficient skills in life; the price is that each time he borrows, a piece of his memory will be lost. In order to find his sister who was forgotten by everyone eight years ago and did not even leave her household registration, Liang Shu followed this "twice-dead" body. But he gradually discovered that it was not just a name that disappeared, but an entire street that had been deliberately erased; the fuel that maintained the lights of thousands of houses in Qingwu City was not ordinary lamp oil. The long night is coming, and the fire in the city cannot be extinguished. But if the so-called light can only continue if a group of people are completely forgotten—— This time, Liang Shu decided to write their names back first.