Spirit Jade

Spirit Jade is a supernatural web novel by Caimi Daozhang, a contracted author on Heiyan Reading Network, serialized exclusively on the platform from April 10, 2018, running about 2.18 million characters in twenty-two volumes. The story begins in a jade shop: the owner was picked up and raised as a child by a wandering feng shui master, and after graduating from university his master secured him a storefront in the city and left him a batch of expensive jade pendants, with only the instruction to run the business well and not court death. These jades are no ordinary ornaments but objects "with spirit"—able to ensure safety, seek longevity, avert disaster and cure illness, and even said to alter one's fate and reverse life and death. The story's trigger is a piece of jade casually left behind by a woman from the neighboring bathhouse, after which the protagonist's fate seems no longer his own. He is drawn into a series of strange jade-related incidents, from blood-grudge stones and eerie-patterned jade to old stockades, ancient tombs, funeral grounds and desolate villages, dealing with various parties along the way and gradually uncovering a larger secret behind the spirit jade. The book advances volume by volume, following the protagonist An Zheng as he obtains mysterious jade and secures spirit jade at auction; it is fast-paced and sensation-seeking, blending feng shui folklore, the jade trade and urban weird tales—a typical long male-oriented supernatural novel. This is a web serial; no official print edition information has been found.