The Strange Cases of Great Song: It Begins When My Parents Grow Human-Faced Sores

During the Xining era of the Great Song, beneath its prosperity, ghosts roamed the night.

I found a battered copper box.

Knock on it three times, and out would drop a gold ingot.

The price was that one stranger would die somewhere in the world.

To save my parents, who had contracted a strange illness, I was forced to knock on it.

I got the money.

But the dead kept getting closer to me.

My neighbor, the shopkeeper, my own second uncle... They all died violent deaths one after another.

Until, on the final knock, my own face appeared in the bronze mirror.

And on my arm, a grotesque, man-faced sore like the ones on my parents began to grow, one that devoured people.

To stay alive, I stepped through the doors of the most mysterious bureau in the Great Song: the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs at the Directorate of Astronomy.

Later, I became a blade-wielding operative who walked the boundary between yin and yang.

Here, I witnessed far too many bizarre and uncanny cases:

The [Letter from the Past], sent from the future to warn its recipient of disaster, only to trap them in a deadly loop;

The [Memory Pawnshop], where people pawned their lives and eventually forgot who they were;

And the [Ghost Ferry of the Yellow Springs], packed with departed souls and never destined to dock...

Behind every haunted object lay the unfathomable depths of the human heart.