Tales of Wenlu: The Unorthodox Path

Lulu, a sacred maiden from Miaojiang, spends her days joking around as a small-time online streamer, always saying, "Our village secretary won't allow it." At night, she helps those with nowhere else to turn, lifting a Gu curse and showing them the way.

She has seen Gu masters who lay curses, corpse-driving processions, and Nuo masks that borrow faces. She has also seen the living trapped by ancient legends. The fake corpses of western Hunan, the Nuo masks of Anshun, the bronze drums of the Yao Mountains: behind every strange case lies a secret older than the land itself.

She can lift other people's Gu curses, but she cannot unravel her own past. Why does that voice teach her its methods only in her dreams? Why does that pair of eyes look at her and say, "You carry her scent"?

She travels across China, visiting thirty mountain villages and ancient settlements. One livestream reveals a strange case; one strange case brings together pieces of a game that has been hidden for thousands of years. And she is stepping, little by little, into the heart of that game.