Truth Listener

His name was Chen Mo. An overworked wage slave, with no friends and parents who died young, he had only his grandmother left in his home village. Going home once a month was the one thing he still looked forward to in the city. Then, one weekend, he went fishing at a pond behind the village, fell in, and drowned. When he opened his eyes again, he was in the underworld. King Qin Guang judged that he had done no great evil in life and had been a devoted son, so he granted him a chance to return to the living world. There was only one condition: he had to work for the underworld. And so he gained a pair of ears, ears that could hear the voices of the dead. From that day on, cries in the night began to seep into his ears. Only by helping them clear their names and sending them back into the cycle of rebirth could he upgrade his ears, step by step. First, he could make out a single whispered sentence. Then, distinguish a lie. And eventually, hear the workings of the entire underworld. He thought he was just the underworld's informant, running errands for the dead. Until he heard the voices of his parents. Until he discovered that his own "accidental" drowning had been written into the Book of Life and Death from the very beginning. In this world, the most terrifying thing has never been ghosts. It's injustice.