When the bronze casket is opened deep in the ancestral home, a century of resentment surges forth like a tide. Members of the Lu family begin dying in bizarre ways, each death more inexplicable than the last, as if an unseen hand is slowly tightening its grip in the night.
Act One: Prisoners of a Curse
Dressed in a blue silk cheongsam, Lu Wanning walks alone beneath a blood moon. Her mother’s body has yet to be laid to rest, and three members of the clan have already died suddenly for no apparent reason. She has never suspected that the secret inside the bronze casket is an ancient sacrificial rite that trades a scapegoat’s life for another’s. Her cousin Lu Mingxuan insists on finding a victim, but she vows to defy fate and change her destiny.
