Beneath the surface of a bustling city lurks a terrifying world inextricably linked to reality.
Lin Luoxiang was an ordinary student until a mysterious ancient mirror dragged him into a maelstrom where yin and yang were turned upside down. The modern city of Linjiang and the underworld city of Youdu reflect one another. At midnight, the boundary between the living and the dead grows blurry, and the souls of the living inexplicably cast shadows into Youdu. One wrong step can lead to eternal ruin.
Three powers hold sway in Youdu: the City God Office maintains order, the City of the Wrongfully Dead spreads curses, and the Yellow Springs Corporation sells years of life. Their rivalries and secret struggles make an already tangled situation even more complicated. Meanwhile, a karmic contamination mechanism hangs over everything like the Sword of Damocles. Every death in Youdu triggers a butterfly effect in reality. Cursed tattoos cling to the living like shadows, closing in step by step and dragging them into an endless abyss.
As time goes on, one bizarre incident after another strikes those around Lin Luoxiang. A classroom ceiling fan falls, a convenience store cashier has no shadow, and a subway train heads straight into the abyss. He grows through each crisis. Blood-written school rules in the library, a weeping Mona Lisa in the art room, and files on mass suicides discovered in the principal's office all reveal the enormous conspiracy lurking behind it all. Even stranger incidents, like receiving his own urn and finding a “Meng Po Soup” order on a food delivery app, push the story to a climax.
The red birthmark on Lin Luoxiang's left wrist turns out to be “Meng Po's Contract Rope.” Chains rattle in the attic his mother locks every night, and the homeroom teacher draws blood moons while grading assignments. These high-concept mysteries lie beneath layer upon layer of fog, waiting for the reader and protagonist to uncover them together.
The specific content is well written, not bad!