- **Looping Horror**: Every time Little Swallow dies, she returns to the day she first entered the palace, discovering that the imperial palace is a massive rule-based horror scenario:
- “Do not answer the weeping outside your window during the Hour of the Rat.”
- “Do not touch the third peach tree in the Imperial Garden.”
- **Hidden Truth**: Qianlong has long been possessed by a fox demon. To restore the true course of history, everyone must break the loop.
