The Paper Effigy Shop

The Yi family has been making paper effigies for generations, adhering to three taboos: never take orders for red-clothed effigies after midnight, never paint eyes on paper figures, and never accept money for deadly evil deeds. Yi Jinxin guards the century-old paper shop on a remote mountain street. After his grandfather mysteriously disappeared, he inherited this yin-yang craft, only guiding the souls of the dead, never creating evil spirits, only resolving karma, never touching evil. But the night hides evil, and the human heart hides ghosts. Strange visitors come at midnight, offering heavy money for red-clothed paper figures with painted eyes, breaking the Yi family's century-old taboos, pressing closer step by step, trying to use paper evil to trap souls and alter fate, causing chaos in the yin and yang. Paper figures without eyes do not disturb the balance; if the human heart is greedy, there is no redemption. One by one, rural eerie tales, old yin debts. Drowned souls unable to rest, old evils rising from broken graves, villains tampering with feng shui, spirits roaming the mountains... Yi Jinxin uses bamboo strips for bones and straw paper for bodies, relying on ancestral craft to ferry the wronged dead, suppress evil, and settle strange affairs, walking the line between the two worlds, keeping the rules, preserving kindness, and seeing through the ghosts in human hearts. At the same time, following the broken notes left by his grandfather, he investigates the truth of his disappearance, tearing apart the evil behind the scenes, and upholding the bottom line and righteous path of a paper effigy craftsman! Folk tales, episodic strange events, karma and soul-ferrying, no mindless power fantasy, immersive Chinese-style suspense atmosphere! — Description from novelcodex.org