The Dead Man's Commission

At the East Nancheng Funeral Home, there is a young man named Shen Chi who works the night shift. No one knows his real job: the newly dead, before the seventh day after their death, "send" him the period of their life they were most reluctant to let go of. He watches for the dead, investigates for the dead, and must close the case within seven days. If he fails, the dead's hatred will attach to him, each time heavier than the last. A year ago, he was a trainee police officer in the criminal investigation unit. Because he "spread rumors" that Zhao Ping was murdered, he was dismissed as a madman. A year later, he receives his tenth commission—Lin Chunsheng, a delivery worker who jumped to his death. The suicide note, the IOUs, the eyewitness testimony—everything says "suicide," but in the last seven days Lin Chunsheng left him, a voice repeatedly chants the same word: bone-picking. Bone-picking, a business that turns "murder" into "accident." Those who buy lives pay, those who take lives get paid, and the middleman's surname is Bai; no one has seen his face. Shen Chi investigates Lin Chunsheng's death as if it were alive. And that face he has been chasing for a year, hidden in the cuff of a white suit, is waiting for him somewhere—waiting for this night-shift worker who won't shut up to once again "happen" to appear at the murder scene. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Dead Man's Commission — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠