Chronicles of Bone Garments

The most terrifying things in this world have never been ghosts or gods, but the human heart, impossible to see through, and fate, impossible to change. Amid the miasma-shrouded mountains of Yunling lies a secret art of bone garments, inheriting a thousand years of medicine from the Qing Nang tradition. Bones conceal life and death; flesh carries yin and yang. A garment made from a corpse can cure every illness and steal countless lives. The orphan Shen Qinghe spent half his life studying medicine. He trusted evidence and understood pharmacology, never believing in irrational tales of ghosts and gods. But from the night his mentor’s bones vanished into thin air, his materialist world collapsed completely. A leaf-shaped birthmark awakened his bloodline, and the touch of bone revealed the secrets of yin and yang. He travels among desolate graves and ancient stockades, solves eerie cases tied to the earth’s veins, navigates between righteous and wicked factions, and uncovers the hidden truth behind a century-old schism. Some use garments to prolong their lives, their greed never sated. Others use their arts to suppress evil, shouldering the burden as they press on. When yin and yang are overturned and life and death fall into disorder, the only one who can rewrite the ending must ultimately offer himself as a sacrifice. With bones as his garment and his heart as his boundary, he guides the unjustly dead to their rest, then returns still a healer.