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The Bone-Stitching Casebook Scroll I: Strange Cases of Fenggu Town: A tongue too rotten to stitch. A dead girl's mouth, pried open for the truth.
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Pei Gao is a bone-stitcher. When a corpse comes back missing a tendon or a severed channel, he takes a dull needle and rough thread and sets it right-neater than the living ever managed. But the living in Fenggu Town are harder to stitch than the dead.
A wealthy household drops dead. Three women with the same face live in three separate courtyards-no sorcery, but a wartime Shadow Pact, splitting one person into three to dodge assassins. Twin sisters at the massage parlor take turns seducing every man in town; emotion is the chisel, addiction the lockpick. A sixty-year-old man marries a young bride-the bridal sedan arrives, but the coffin inside is empty. Behind the veil, the bride has spent twenty years dripping slow poison, boiling the enemy's bones hollow.
With a stiff-worm that smells out death, and a sharp-tongued wonton widow at his back, Gao Pei walks a town where even the mist tastes sweet-and needle by needle, unpicks the lotus seal of the Bone-Bearing Society.
The living fake death easy. The dead tell truth hard. He does both.
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