Lampbearer of Karma

A night-shift worker at a funeral home accidentally touches a "lamp wick" and is recruited by the "Lantern Bureau."

A secret organization dedicated to handling "unfinished business of the dead."

As he continues to "light lamps" and "collect debts," he uncovers the Lantern Bureau's true operating principle:

Every lamp is a thread of cause and effect, and he himself is the last lamp to have been "lit" twenty years ago.

On the seventy-third day of his night shift at the funeral home, Gu Huai encountered the first person who "wouldn't leave."

The dead aren't frightening. What's frightening is when a dead person opens their eyes and calls him by a name he's never used.

This city has two registries. One is at the civil affairs bureau, and the other is at the Lantern Bureau.

When Gu Huai was entered into the second registry, someone told him:

"Remember, every lamp you light is a debt you collect on behalf of the dead. The debt you collect is recorded under your name. When the day comes that you can't repay it, the lamp will go out."

Gu Huai thought he was just a corpse collector.

Until he found a still-burning lamp inside the chest of the first body that "wouldn't leave."

In the shadow cast by that lamp, Gu Huai saw himself from twenty years ago.