A bout of “sleep paralysis” at noon reveals a faint red “Coldwood Mark” on Chen Mo's nape. The figure in an old photo on the corner of his desk matches the ghostly figure in his dream, hunched over his back.
He doesn't know this is the beginning of a thousand-year-old curse. The Tang Dynasty painting Coldwood Landscape traps a vengeful spirit, an old Republic-era painting case can no longer suppress the evil, and he is the “Perceiver” the spirit is seeking.
After encounters with dream controllers, sealing evil during the Blood Moon, and the secret shadows of Blackwater City, another figure raises its eyes from deep within a painting of peach blossoms in an ancient mansion. (No System, no transmigration)
