Seven Days to Live

The protagonist is the young owner of a travel agency who leads a stable life and has been in a long-term relationship with his college girlfriend, with plans to marry at the end of the year. Then one morning he wakes to find that he is already "dead": his consciousness has left his body and become a wandering soul, while his physical body has been targeted by a Thai amulet that wants to devour him. The amulet was a gift from his childhood friend—who exactly is trying to harm him?

With nowhere left to turn, he meets a blind man who claims to be an heir of the Shenxiao sect. The man is willing to help him return to life, but he has only seven days: once they pass, he will be annihilated forever. On his journey back to the living, he encounters a four-tailed fox spirit, a corpse driver from western Hunan, a shaman from the Changbai Mountains, and Duanmu Qingluan, the "Bamboo Leaf Green" notorious for her poisons, among others. From scattered remarks he also learns that his own family is connected to the legacy of the lost treasures of Khara-Khoto in the Western Xia. Meanwhile, as black magic, gu poison, and blood curses weave into a net, Manchukuo remnants, a Thai sorcerer monk, and Japanese ninjas all set out to hunt him down—and even the identity of the girlfriend he has loved for years becomes shrouded in mystery.

Structured around a seven-day countdown, the novel pursues the truth behind the conspiracy while unfurling folk tales and occult imaginings. It is a long work in the web-fiction supernatural genre that leans toward folkloric and strange tales, with a high density of plot.