Shen Jian, an illegitimate son of the Shen family, returns to the clan after his elder brother's bizarre death before the ancestral Mirror of Bone-Revealing, only to be swept into the vortex of a century-old curse and a massacre that wiped out an entire household. What appears to be a supernatural legend about a mirror that can reflect souls is actually a bloody conspiracy orchestrated by human hands. Shen Jingzhi uses the Mirror of Bone-Revealing to absorb the souls of clan members and practice dark magic, while the truth about Shen Jian's birth mother and the massacre of the Su family gradually comes to light.
The central conflict: the mirror's ability to “reflect souls” is actually a means of “trapping souls.” As Shen Jian and Su Yetang, a mirror artisan and descendant of the Su family, try to unravel the mystery, they must fight the evil entities and mirror monsters within the glass while also facing the dual trials of family grudges and human desire. In the end, Shen Jian uses himself as bait to shatter the mirror and suppress the evil within, only to discover that the Mirror of Bone-Revealing is just one of many “Soul-Trapping Mirrors,” setting the stage for a sequel.
