The Seventh Name in the River

Nineteen-year-old corpse retriever Shen Yan takes jobs for Bai Family Paper Offerings, relying on a bronze bell passed down through her family and her ability to hear the dead's unfinished words whenever she touches a corpse. One night, a voice calling "Shen Yan" four times from the river leads her to the body of a drowned female worker, a strip of red cloth tied around her neck. She discovers her childhood nickname, "Xiaoman," written on it. "Xiaoman" was the seventh name her mother, Qin Yue'e, left in the water when she jumped into the river thirty-seven years ago. For forty years, the Bai family has erased their debts with the names of the dead. The seventh place is still vacant, waiting for her. The accounts her father hid, the knot her mother left behind, and the red cord on her wrist that she refuses to untie all demand that she answer the call. Can she reclaim her name before the river speaks for her?

Recommendation: The river will call your name in your own voice. Answer once, and you'll never leave again.