Taiguli

Ten years ago, team leader Lin Ke was excavating a test pit at Xiajiazhuang in Xi'an when he dug open a Tang dynasty tomb that should never have existed. Seven stone chambers, seven skeletons seated facing east, seven scrolls of silk manuscripts. The last page of the sixth scroll was a star chart, with a line of small characters in the corner—the seventh day of the seventh month, tenth year of Kaiyuan. That was his son Lin Yuan's birthday. He bit his fingertip and pressed a blood mark, sealed the final scroll, filled in the earth, and walked away. Gone for ten years. Ten years later, construction began at the Taiguli site, and Lin Yuan led the team in. The same patch of ground, the same group of people, the same underground palace. Why did his father's hand tremble that year? What exactly was written in the seventh scroll? Seven people had sat underground for twelve hundred years—why was there not the slightest tilt in their posture? One bloodline, unbroken. He remembers. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Taiguli — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠