At the midnight of the Ghost Festival, without stars or moon, seven people were led into an old black building shrouded in black mist by a mysterious voice, and a death game with "no exit" began. From the flickering lights in the Republican-style secret room, to the sudden appearance of the acupuncture bronze figure; from the corridor filled with eyeless paper hanging to pierce people, to the wedding room where wedding dresses and photos are displayed, the chill of Chinese horror is approaching step by step.
Old newspapers reveal the truth about the "Twelve Hour Hands" killing game, and records of Manchu torture are intertwined with clues about young women's corpses. It also involves human tragedies such as the children who were swallowed by the abandoned baby tower and the women who were forced into marriage by feudal ethics under the bad habit of favoring boys over girls. Jiang Qizhi carried the mahogany sword in his arms to look for clues, but found out from the layers of puzzles that he had been possessed by the ghost of his best friend Lin Shen, and that his companion Ye Chi was the real culprit who set people on fire.
When red beans solve lovesickness and letters break codes, this game with life as the bet will eventually reveal the malice deep in the human heart that is more terrifying than ghosts in the intertwining of truth and revenge.
This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.
