Ash Tax Collector

The kingdom demands taxes, the dead demand tomorrow, and the man responsible for auditing their eligibility for continued existence finds his own memory included in the tax bill. When Qi Du first received a tax bill from a dead person, the sender had been dead for seventeen years. In the Kingdom of Herod, every adult had to pay one day of memory every year to keep the fires of the city and the never-extinguishing daylight of the capital. Qi Du's job is to audit those people and cities that "should not continue to exist." But when he came to Fog Bell City, he found that the shops in the city were open as usual, the children went to school as usual, and the mayor could hand over the tax payment certificate in person. At twelve o'clock at midnight, all the residents of the city will be reduced to ashes; they will reappear with the sound of the bell the next morning. The law says they are only echoes left behind by the dead. But they make choices, make mistakes, fall in love, and look forward to tomorrow. In the memory of the dead city, Qi Du heard the person who had been deleted from all files by the state: "Brother, don't put a seal of death on this city."