Traces of Old Paper

The Twenty-Four Histories contain thousands of splendid volumes, most of which contain the rise and fall of emperors, generals, and rulers of chaos. But in the gaps and blank spaces of the official history, there are still many past events that historians hesitated to write and kept secret. They are not made up by unofficial historians or gossip in the market. They are all corroborated by official historical records, official records, and folk. It's just that it was too weird, too subversive of the common sense of the world, so it was brushed aside and reduced to a historical document. My name is Wang Zhen, and I have been an official for half my life, traveling through Xijing and Bianliang, and handling countless unsolved cases and strange things. Every grievance that was covered up by the court and forgotten by the world was recorded in my own handwriting and sealed in old paper files. The so-called evil spirits in the world are never mountain spirits and ghosts. They are old resentments that have no place to express themselves, and sins that cannot be hidden deep in the human heart. The pages are yellowed, the pen and ink are still cold, and all the shadows hidden in the gaps in the history books are included in this volume.