The Yin Artisan

Introduction to The Yin Artisan

Luo Shouzhuo is an ordinary clerk at the housing demolition office. He believes in neither ghosts nor gods, only policies and compensation payments.

That is, until he finds a yellowed contract in the mourning hall of a holdout household. His name is written on the back in blood: Seventh-generation heir to the Yin Artisans.

From then on, he has a new job: repairing the damaged order between the realms of yin and yang.

The rules are simple:

A spirit was summoned but never given its offering? Repair it.

Someone who died an unnatural death can't enter their home? Repair it.

Someone didn't get their diamond ring on the seventh day after death? Repair it.

But the rules are cruel, too:

Every repair costs him a piece of his memory.

After his first case, he forgets the dead person's face.

By the third, yin marks have spread across his chest.

The ancestral warning says: A Yin Artisan must never go beyond three cases.

But after searching through the supplementary fragments, he finds this written on the last page: