When the down-and-out writer Chen Mo caught a glimpse of the washed-out blue in the suffocating subway, his life slipped into an elaborate nightmare. The books with strange covers and no provenance in the hands of the mysterious girl became a fatal temptation for him to exhaust his creativity. After an accidental collision, "Rain Moth" - this chilly "Ghost Book" fell into his hands. "Aphasia", written in imitation of his cold writing style, became an instant hit, followed by a gilded blank contract from the top publishing house Wenhua Times:
"'Write' all her books, and you will be the next literary superstar."
On the appendix of the contract, there were clearly listed titles of books that he had never seen clearly: "Rain Moth", "River of Ashes", "Glass Labyrinth" and "Eternal Night Voyage". The editor king's gaze behind the lens penetrated his unbearable theft. The temptation is to be a literary thief in the spotlight, at the cost of a complete pawn of the soul. The disappearing figure in a blue dress on the subway platform, together with the blood-stained quill she left behind, are silently accusing the dirtiest secret of the Wenhua era - those soul-shaking stories are all written by living people and paid for by imprisonment.
When Chen Mo stood on the platform of the last subway, the gold lines on the edge of the contract in his hand burned in his palm. The rusted keys in the cracks of the rails, the overlapping signatures in the reflection of the car windows, the unprinted real name on the title page... All clues point to a torn ending:
By signing his real name, he becomes a new link in the capital chain, imprisoning others and imprisoning himself.
By signing his pen name, he will release all the devoured souls at the cost of falling into the eternal night constructed by words. **
