Chronicles of the Hungry Ghost Festival

Chen Ye, forty years old, has lived an ordinary and lonely life. On the night of the Hungry Ghost Festival, he eats a bowl of wonton soup but finds no chopsticks, so he uses a red candle meant for ancestor worship. The soup grows bland, a chill seeps into his bones, and his head droops. Thud. He dies. 【Ding! The Soul-Chasing and Grievance-Resolving System has been bound!】 【Mission: Traverse the forbidden villages and lands of China, tread over lone graves and wild tombs, seek out the wronged souls of the world, unravel village mysteries, resolve grievances buried beneath the earth, and soothe the eternal resentment of the ages.】 【Failure: Your soul will be buried forever in the yellow earth, a lonely ghost beneath the tomb for all eternity.】 Vicious ghosts may not be bloodthirsty; they only hate that their injustices remain unavenged. Wild graves may not harbor evil; they are filled with the sins of the living. From then on, the world loses an ordinary middle-aged man, and the path of yin and yang gains a soul chaser. Deserted village nursery rhymes, ghost marriage customs, soul-locking ancient locust trees, nameless ominous tombs... one by one, long-buried bloody cases and heart-wrenching sorrows come to light. He does not slay nameless ghosts, only seeks unavenged wrongs. A single candle illuminates the dark path, one step, one grave, pressing ever forward. — Description from novelcodex.org