"No Living Allowed" When the Lanterns Changed Color for the Third Time, I Finally Deciphered This Inn's Rules of Death

A peeling vermilion door with faded yellow talismans, dark red liquid seeping through the cracks
Night One • The Yin-Yang Inn

The moment Shen Yan pushed open the wooden inn door in the pouring rain, the hands of her pocket watch began spinning backward.

Seven sets of chopsticks lay arranged on the Eight Immortals table in the lobby, while six white lanterns swayed without wind. The old innkeeper in a maroon mandarin jacket didn't look up: "Guest, the Heaven rooms house the living. The Earth rooms house the dead."

She counted the lanterns hanging from the eaves—seven.

【Dungeon 1: The Book of Life and Death】
Rule Analysis
1️⃣ You must choose a room before midnight (Heaven rooms have red paper on windows, Earth rooms have bronze bells)
2️⃣ The living must never meet the dead's gaze (But all guests turn into corpses at the Hour of the Ox)
3️⃣ The only exit is hidden in the innkeeper's abacus sounds

Death Triggers
At 3 AM, Shen Yan hears bronze bells in the corridor.

A guest from the Earth room floats past her door with a noose around their neck, clutching yellow paper inscribed with birth dates.

She suddenly remembers: The innkeeper's abacus beads always stop at "seven."

【Dungeon 2: The Mourning Woman】
Ghost Marriage Trap
When bloodstained wedding robes appear on Shen Yan's pillow, funeral suonas pierce the night.

Key Clues:
🔴 All mourning women wear embroidered mandarin duck shoes (but the left toe hides a silver needle)
🔴 The dragon-phoenix candles form human faces in melted wax
🔴 Mirror reflections blink three seconds slower than real people

Final Showdown
As the bridal sedan stops at the cliff's edge, Shen Yan suddenly lifts her veil and aims a bronze mirror at the bride—
The reflection shows not a face, but rows of ancestral tablets.

【Dungeon 3: The Living Coffin】
Family Curse
Seven black coffins are arranged in the Big Dipper formation inside the ancestral hall, each containing a woman who shares Shen Yan's face.

Death Rules:
☠ Touching ancestral tablets accelerates corpse spots
☠ Ancestral hall candles must burn in odd numbers
☠ Names in the family registry vanish at rooster's crow

Ultimate Twist
When Shen Yan opens the seventh coffin, she finds her twin sister who drowned in childhood. Carvings on the coffin's bottom reveal the horrifying truth: All the dead are parallel versions of herself.

Why You Should Follow This Story
✅ Authentic Chinese Horror: Folkloric elements + karmic reincarnation
✅ Brainy Female Protagonist: No cheat codes, just observation and deduction
✅ Aesthetic Death Scenes: Red/white ghosts, corpse makeup, paper effigies
✅ Chilling Details:

The number "seven" appears in every dungeon

The heroine's pocket watch is forever stuck at 3:07

All NPCs lack ankles

📌 Click "Follow" to unlock hidden plot: Who left the plum blossom scar on Shen Yan's right shoulder?

Tags: #InfiniteFlow #ChineseHorror #Mystery #FemaleLead #FolkHorror

Next Chapter Teaser
"Spirit Rice" Arc: When Shen Yan is forced to become a medium, the procession of ghost soldiers includes missing persons from the real world. Five bowls of raw rice on the altar begin sprouting—one of them yields a finger bone with her fingerprint...

"Are you eating food for the living... or the dead?"

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