Big Taboo

Once a person is born, his or her birth date, real name, hair, and shadow—all can be "taken" by a matchmaker. If someone knows how to pick, if he takes a strand of your hair, you will respond to the pain of his palm; if he takes your name, no one in the world will be able to respond to your name. Bian Jin, an apprentice at the Yadu paperweight and fire shop, is gifted with a pair of eyes that can see the threads between all things. He has no trace, she has no trace, and there is still an old case buried in the town whose name has been erased, and it has been hidden for fifteen years. The dumb water can only cross the dead, not the living - but seven days later, a living figure wants to cross the river. Taking and hiding, who is crossing whom?