The Man Who Borrows Lives at Midnight

The Shen family's paper effigy shop in Qinghuai Town only opens at midnight. On the night his grandfather died, Shen Yan returned to his hometown to keep vigil, only to meet a woman with no shadow. She said her husband had borrowed seven days of life and had to repay them before dawn. Forced to open the Book of Borrowed Lives, passed down through his family, Shen Yan discovered that people really could borrow life and extend their years from the dead, paper effigies, village shrines, and wandering spirits. But every borrowed life had to be repaid. More frightening still, the first page of the book bore his birth details: half a life unpaid.