The Hanged Woman of the Dead Village

Deep in the mountains lies Wang Village, an isolated settlement bound by forbidden ancestral rules. No adult male may remain, and for generations the villagers have worshipped a woman in red who hanged herself, relying on a blood pact to suppress a century-old vengeful ghost. The whole village is buried under unspeakable bloody secrets. Dai Chuanyu, a carpenter, stumbles into this forbidden place while investigating a series of mysterious disappearances of men. Resembling a drummer who died for love a century ago, he is the first outsider in a hundred years unafraid of the hanged woman's deadly aura, shattering the village's century-old taboo. Su Yuhuan, a famous opera performer of the late Qing dynasty, died unjustly young and became a vengeful spirit, trapped in the village for a hundred years by the blood pact. Hanged in red, her grudge endures, and the buried truth has been deliberately erased. Beneath the village's calm surface, currents run dark: the shamaness Meng Jinzhi manipulates the entire village and holds power through claims of spirits and gods, while sisters Azhi and Alian awaken and lead the village women to break free from the shackles of fate. As the century-old blood pact weakens, ignorant human nature and ghostly hatred erupt fully. Dai Chuanyu unravels the eerie cases layer by layer, tears off the village's hypocritical mask, moves between the worlds of the living and the dead, exposes Su Yuhuan's century-spanning injustice, and breaks the cycle of fate that has entangled generations, staging a breathtaking tale of ghostly revenge and salvation in desperate straits. — Description from novelcodex.org