The Mystery of Mistveil Manor

A gold-embossed invitation tears through the calm of a rainy night. Private detective Lin Shen, gripping a fountain pen engraved with an “X,” steps into a mist-shrouded castle. Six visitors, each harboring secrets, gather as the manor’s owner speaks from behind a mask of an unsolved case from fifteen years ago. A dagger through the heart during a blackout, the bloodied letter “L” seeping through a mirror, and notes on human experiments hidden in a locked room drag them all into a deadly cycle.

Reporter Su Qing keeps dreaming at midnight of a little girl in a red dress crying at a mirror. Engraved on the bottom of her antidepressant bottle is a birthday that isn’t hers. The wounds on the laboratory specimens perfectly match the blade of veteran Zhang Qiang’s military knife, while lawyer Zhou Ming has a photograph in his case file of someone who should be dead. When the reflection in the mirror suddenly raises a bloodstained knife, Lin Shen discovers that his fingerprints match the handprint of the manor’s owner, left on an altar a hundred years ago. Perhaps the “back then” everyone talks about was never the same “back then” at all.

And the words “They’re all watching you from inside the mirror,” written in blood fifteen years ago on the iron cage in the basement, are being covered by fresh blood…