Ghost Gate Return on the Fifteenth of the Seventh Month

Twenty years ago, a remote mountain village was sealed off, and over a hundred people died overnight. The official records list it as a natural disaster caused by a mountain flood. Lin Yan is the sole survivor of that catastrophe. His life is a debt mortgaged to the Ghost Gate. Every Zhongyuan Festival, the vengeful spirits of those who were killed return, following his scent to collect what is owed. Ghosts are never the true culprits—the malice of the living, hidden in the world of the living, is the real butcher's blade. One year, on the fifteenth of the seventh month, Lin Yan returns to the desolate village. Paper money paves the road, paper effigies take his place, and a hundred ghosts stand silently by the roadside, waiting. Twenty years of lies that deceived heaven, and old blood debts—all will be revealed one by one on the night the Ghost Gate opens wide. Folk taboos, karmic retribution—case after case of buried secrets slowly surface as the Zhongyuan Ghost Gate creaks open. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Ghost Gate Return on the Fifteenth of the Seventh Month — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠