Shattered Soul of the Azure Realm

Chen Yan runs the "Remnant Collection," a forgotten shop where discarded memories come to die—or refuse to. Cursed with the ability to see invisible threads binding objects to their past, he barely survives in the old town's shadows until a camphor chest with twin locks tears reality apart. Now the dead won't stay quiet: a legless rattan chair drags wet footprints through his door, demanding justice for its drowning. A broken erhu screams nightly, forcing him to deliver a fifty-year-old love letter. Even an old man's cane hides a trapped soul beneath moonlight. As obsessions turn to chains and…