"The Secret of the Bronze Bell" is set in Qingyao Village in western Hunan in 1932, and reveals a thrilling mystery intertwined with Miao and Dong witchcraft and family curses. Wu Yuanshan, a herbal collector, brought back a bronze bell engraved with strange runes from the mountains, but it triggered frequent strange phenomena in the village: well water turned red, dwarf mules cried at night, and red puppets appeared strangely... As his childhood sweetheart Lan Yuerong was involved in the secret ritual of the Dragon Mansion's underworld marriage, Wu Yuanshan discovered that this ancient bell was actually the life-death deed of the "Dwarf Ghost King". It can tamper with life and death, and requires human sacrifice.
Meng Lingong, a Miao wizard who knew the secrets of the village's history, exposed the Long family's centuries-old horrifying tradition of "the bride dies for the bride." In order to save his mother who was suffering from tuberculosis and Lan Yuerong who was imprisoned, Wu Yuanshan was forced to embark on the road to change his life - soul splitting in the pond, human skin turned into a bell, blood sacrifice in the cellar... And in the severe pain of the bell pattern seeping into the flesh and blood, he gradually understood the blood ties between himself and the Long family: the debt of his father's escape, the truth about his mother coughing up blood, and the cruel ending of Lan Yuerong's soul being shattered in the deep pool. When the last half of the bronze bell was embedded in his heart, Wu Yuanshan had to decide the life and death of the entire Qingyao Village between becoming a puppet of the resentful spirit or burning the source of the curse.
Mysteries are intertwined with weird folk customs, and there are many ghosts hidden in the stilted building in the fog. A thrilling contest about betrayal, redemption and flesh and blood slowly unfolds with the buzzing of the ancient bell...
