Shadow Census

In Jiahe-era Eastern Wu, inspector Zhou Yin uncovers a grain-transport fraud designed to steal military rations by erasing men from household registers. As his investigation deepens, he realizes the mastermind is a fellow officer who uses the state census to strip people of their identities, twisting their will until they become living ghosts. Betrayed, hunted, and forced to question his own existence, Zhou Yin must fight to reclaim a self that may never have been his.