Strange Tales of Unusual People

This is a coming-of-age tale woven from sorrow and the supernatural. Su Wenxiu, a middle school student, forms a symbiotic pact with Shen Yanqiu, a deceased girl. Half his yang energy is corroded by yin energy, drawing him step by step closer to the uncanny.

+A disheveled, mysterious former Taoist named Dongfang Qingxuan suddenly barges into their lives, bringing with him a secret flame called the Three Bright Flames and setting the story in motion. Beneath the calm surface of the school, dark currents are stirring. Gu Lige, an unconventional classmate, has been completely erased from everyone's memory, leaving only an empty desk and chair in the classroom. Unable to stand by, Su Wenxiu defies Shen Yanqiu's desperate pleas and insists on seeking the truth behind Gu Lige's disappearance. They break into Gu Lige's home, where she is imprisoned under surveillance, and confront the girl whose power has run wild after she was tainted by a delusional ghost. They are swept into a vast whirlpool woven from delusion and karmic forces. As the shell of everyday life shatters, human obsession, pain, and cries for freedom are laid bare. What is strange? What is normal? Must every good deed be paid for in blood? The young people struggle along the border between the living and the dead, carrying one another's sins and ties as they search for their own answers to survival amid lies and choices. The story is filled with young people's arguments, companionship, and tears. Beneath its strange-tale exterior, it lays bare the loneliness of those trapped, the journey to reconcile with oneself, and the tenderness of choosing to walk together even when the road ahead leads into an abyss.