From the author and universe of Copper Coins and Three Hundred Years of Longing comes a modern-day, supernatural danmei (Boys’ Love) story about a man without a soul and the one determined to save him at all costs.

As a panguan, a cultivator who resolves the regrets of the dead, Wen Shi has spent a thousand years ferrying the dead to their next life—yet he himself is trapped in an endless cycle of rebirth, missing both his soul and memories. When failed panguan Xie Wen answers his ad for a roommate, Wen Shi is drawn to the irritating young man despite his misgivings. But Xie Wen seems to have secrets of his own…secrets that might hold the key to ending Wen Shi’s millennium of lonely wandering.

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After unwittingly walking into a cage disguised as a terrifying escape room, Wen Shi, Xie Wen, and their unlikely band of companions find themselves trapped inside a haunted mansion with a gruesome secret buried in its past. Each clue they unearth seems to contradict the last: Is the ghost haunting the halls the perpetrator of the horror—or a victim herself? As members of their party disappear one by one, Wen Shi grudgingly teams up with Xie Wen to uncover the truth.

Wen Shi has never been one to rely on others. But the longer he works alongside Xie Wen, the more strangely familiar he seems. As they unravel the house’s mystery, this enigmatic man appears to anticipate Wen Shi’s every thought…almost as if they’ve known each other for a long, long time.