“‘Don’t look at yourself in the mirror.’ That was the trembling whisper Su Wanzhao’s mother left her on the night of her seventh birthday. Twenty-three years later, one of the country’s top hypnotists uses “subconscious mirroring” to enter victims’ dreams and extract clues. Yet in every young woman’s dream, she sees the same face: Gu Shenzhi, an investigative reporter who has just returned to the country and is doggedly pursuing a string of disappearances. Even stranger, when she tries to hypnotize him, fragments of his memories contain her mother’s scarf, the police badge her father wore when he died in the line of duty, and an old pocket watch engraved with the character “Mirror.” Are dreams reflections of reality, or lies that have been altered? When the reason of a thorny rose collides with a lone wolf’s obsession, what they uncover is not only the truth behind a cold case, but also the redemption of two broken souls reflected in each other’s eyes.
