The Du Family's Notes: A The Grave Robbers' Chronicles Fanwork

The summer Du Qing graduated, he received an anonymous email. Attached was a map on silk depicting an ancient Warring States tomb deep in Mount Emei. He forwarded it to his eldest brother, Du Yu. That night, Du Yu knocked on his door, his face as pale as paper.

"Someone is baiting us," Du Yu said.

What Du Qing didn't know was that the map was only the beginning. The bronze sacred tree in the Shu Palace, the Serpent's Resting Pool beneath Sand City, the merfolk coffin deep in the East Sea, the bronze gate beneath the Kunlun ice... Each tomb held a fragment, and together they formed a complete "key map to the gate." And the person who sent the email was always watching them from the shadows.

Second brother Du Han disappeared in the Shu Palace. Brother Liu died in the hanging coffin formation. A Cheng pulled the trigger on himself in the Zhang family ancient tower. Du Qing went from a college student whose legs turned weak at the sight of blood to a man who spent seven years setting a trap that sent Shen Ling to his death. Before Shen Ling breathed his last, he said, "You're more ruthless than your eldest brother." Du Qing replied, "My eldest brother isn't dead. I'm just doing his work for him."

Twelve volumes of The Du Family Notes tell how a person goes from clean to tainted, and how, even in that tainted state, he holds on to his last line. The most terrifying thing in every tomb isn't the zongzi, but the living.