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Aku was a wicked man, a fool, and a wretch who had muddled through half his life in disgrace. All he had ever wanted was a son—but when his wife died in childbirth and left him with a daughter, Xiao Hua, he gave up that hope entirely. To feed his daughter, he became the Wang family’s gravekeeper. By a twist of fate, he accidentally revived the spirits of the dead. Ghosts weren’t frightening—every one of them had once been a good person, a hero. Aku became their friend, even like a junior to

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