A mother's bargain with a demon will ultimately turn against her own flesh and blood.
Wang Xinghua, a selfish, sharp-tongued peasant woman, is reborn in 1976 with the supernatural ability known as "money under the tongue": she can taste other people's emotions and trade them for money and favors. When she uses forbidden powers to save her family, however, a frigid will dormant within an ancient black stone awakens inside her.
Her daughter is humiliated and miscarries, her eldest son is framed, and her husband lies dying, frozen in ice... Each time she uses her ability, her body crystallizes a little more, and a sliver of her humanity fades away. Then, on a bitter winter night, the black stone shatters and an icy hell descends. At the scene of a tragedy that leaves three dead and one gravely wounded, all that remains is her fully crystallized body and a pair of inhuman eyes burning with ghostly blue flames.
When public security officer Zheng Weidong uncovers the provincial capital's dark secrets behind the bloody case, he discovers that this rebirth was actually an invitation from the abyss. And deep beneath the frozen lake at Songlingou, an ice core that has slept for a thousand years awaits its final sacrifice...
The rift between humanity and divinity, the twin forces of a mother's love and destruction. When someone reborn walks the path to becoming inhuman, redemption and the abyss are separated by only a hair's breadth.
