The Lu Ban Art: Craftsman of Hexes

The Lu Ban Art, historically known as the "Flaw of Five," demands a cruel price: widowerhood, widowhood, orphanthood, solitude, or disability. Xu Dong is an ordinary carpenter with little talent whose greatest ambition is simply to drift through life. Everything changes the moment he encounters a poorly crafted, cut-corner coffin ordered by Pockmarked Chen. From that day forward, bizarre horrors follow one after another—corpses opening their eyes, bodies hanging from roof beams, sinister echoes trapped within cursed buildings, and shadowy figures lurking in the hospital morgue. Swept into an inescapable vortex of malicious curses, Xu Dong finds himself walking the boundary between the living and the dead. Armed with an ancient Lu Ban technique and half a volume of hex-breaking methods, he holds a ruler in his left hand to suppress malevolent spirits and grips a chisel in his right to shatter evil sorcery. In a world fraught with deadly supernatural encounters, only the ancient ways of Lu Ban can unravel the myriad disasters born of hex magic.