Curse Appraiser is a long-running series blending suspense, horror, strange folk tales, urban crime, and dark humor.
The story follows Xie Jiu, the sharp-tongued owner of the antique shop Silent Studio at the City God Temple. On the surface, he deals in antiques, but in reality he runs a secret business: authenticating all kinds of supernatural objects involving language, from bloodstained forbidden books and tapes carrying looping curses to online messages from the dead... With his family's inherited bloodline of Word Spirits and his razor-sharp, merciless eye, he navigates a world of uncanny words where truth and falsehood are impossible to tell apart. His fees are steep, and he never holds his tongue.
But when a string of bizarre serial murders brings Lin Yuan, a tenacious policewoman, to his door with a bloodstained spirit-world banknote bearing the words
You Hired Me to Collect Bodies, So I Dissected My Ex-Girlfriend
Tattered Robe
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