Worldbuilding
The near future, 2035. Artificial intelligence and virtual reality have reached an advanced stage, but traditional mysticism still lurks beneath the surface.
Centered on the fictional city of Qingjiang, the setting combines cyberpunk-style high-tech districts with an old town that preserves Ming and Qing architecture.
- Technological advances have given rise to "quantum spirit communication." Ancient Night Watcher families face an existential crisis in the modern age, while a thousand-year-old Yin Ruins lie hidden beneath the city.
- Psychic streamer Lin Xia accidentally awakens her dormant Night Watcher bloodline while livestreaming with a quantum spirit communication device, and encounters eerie phenomena that technology cannot explain.
Antique shop owner Lu Chenzhou bears a thousand-year-old Night Watcher curse. While maintaining the seal on the Yin Ruins, he meets Lin Xia, who possesses a rare bloodline.
The technology conglomerate "Tianshu" tries to use artificial intelligence to unravel the mysteries of mysticism, damaging the Yin Ruins' barrier and plunging Qingjiang into a crisis of ghosts roaming the streets.
As Lin Xia moves between virtuality and reality, she discovers that her memories are quantum-entangled with the Night Watcher massacre from a century ago.
With the balance between yin and yang on the verge of collapse, the protagonists must find a third path between technology and mysticism.
