I return to my hometown to visit my critically ill grandfather, only to stumble into a terrifying forbidden zone without knowing how or why.
Murder, corpse-raising, venomous insects, soul-hooking: one mysterious, uncanny thing after another suddenly appears.
I think I am finally nearing the end, but then the road turns and I find myself back at the beginning.
That is when I realize this is a trap with no way out.
With a Yin-Yang tongue, I tell tales of both worlds. Who would have thought the stories told by the imperial storyteller were all true?
