The Paper Horse Shop on the Street Corner

In a big city, on a street corner where neon lights don't shine, there is a paper horse shop that only opens in the middle of the night. The owner of the shop, Shen Wanzhou, makes a living by burning paper, changing transportation, setting up homes, and solving troubles for others - his clients range from demolition households to senior executives of foreign companies, from night shift drivers to interns at funeral parlors. He does not believe in ghosts and gods, but only believes in rules: the paper horses must be cut according to local records, the spells must be recited according to the dialect, the reward must be cash, and no name should be left in case of accidents. Until a commission to "send a letter to an unborn child" dragged Shen Wanzhou into a serial disappearance case. The dreams of the missing people all appear in the same old river that was filled in. At the bottom of the river lies a land temple that has never been on the official list. The incense in the temple has been out of service for thirty years, but some people in the city are still "paying taxes" to it according to the old calendar. Shen Wanzhou discovered that every subway line and every resettlement building in the city had a set of folk ledgers that were not included in the planning map. His profession is not to exorcise evil spirits, but to act as an intermediary between the living and the "forgotten rules" in the cracks of modernity. But when the account book began to collect debts from him, a name he had never written appeared on the signboard of the paper horse shop.