The Gu Witch: I Received a Letter from My Ex

Two years after we broke up, just before graduation, I received a package from my ex-boyfriend. Inside were a bank card, a property deed, and a suicide letter. He wrote: “Jiajia, by the time you read this, I may already be dead...” I’m a materialistic woman, and to accept these things with a clear conscience, I decided to return to my ex’s hometown, a remote Miao village, and collect his body. But when I returned, the people at the foot of the mountain told me that everything in the village had vanished sixty years ago. Even the ox-head posts at the village entrance, once used to pray for a bountiful harvest, had turned into posts topped with human heads...