Xumen

Luomaling, a deep mountain in the south, hides a deadly secret: it is a deserted ancient village during the day, but at midnight it switches to a ghost market of the Republic of China, and at midnight the afterimages of the execution grounds of the Ming and Qing Dynasties emerge. The taboo of the "Paper Sacrifice" a hundred years ago tore apart time and space. Paper figures, ancient mirrors, and old wells are both travel keys and life-devouring traps. Reporter Lin Yan, who was destined to sacrifice his family, broke in with a film camera that could capture time and space afterimages. The red mole on his left hand had already marked him as a "sacrifice." He unexpectedly meets Aman, a girl in the village whose bloodline hides the anchor of time and space. One calmly solves puzzles and breaks fate, while the other uses copper bells to drive away obsessions and uses ancient mirrors to stabilize cracks. In order to find his adoptive mother and break the curse, the two are forced to join hands in three dimensions of time and space. Old photos from the Republic of China appear on the phone, strange paper ashes appear on the rice bowl, and the words and deeds of acquaintances trace the trajectory of the dead. As family secrets and space-time mysteries were uncovered layer by layer, they were shocked to find that the missing people were all bound by obsession, and the truth about Aman's adoptive mother's "living sacrifice" was actually closely connected with the past of Lin Yan's grandfather - behind the taboo was a bloody agreement that spanned a hundred years. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.