Blood-tear

Author: Xu Dongwei
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Shijie, a small town on the outskirts of Yanzhou City, has been impoverished for over two hundred years since the Qing Dynasty. The locals, unable to afford coffins or tombstones, bury their deceased relatives and friends on Shijie Mountain and then plant trees over their graves. This deeply rooted peculiar custom has created a vast and unique landscape—the Shijie Stone Forest. Ten years ago, on a winter night, nine reckless and unruly teenagers buried a constantly bullied child, deemed weak and useless, under a tree in the stone forest behind the school. Ten years later, after a class reunion, those who were involved or related to the incident died in a series of mysterious and bizarre ways. This is a campus tragedy that resurfaced after being buried for ten years, reigniting a storm of bloodshed. The souls that had not yet decayed roared through the ground, deeply questioning this beautiful, cruel, and regrettable world.