The moment intangible cultural heritage photographer Lin Xi's camera began to capture afterimages invisible to the human eye, photos from the future appeared in the file of special case investigator Lu Zhao. The two were forced to join forces to track down the serial disappearances, but they uncovered a millennium conspiracy that uses the entire city as an altar.
Her "after-image retrospection" ability comes at the cost of memory, and each shutter may erase a fragment of her life; her right hand implanted in the Buddha's bones seals an evil object, and her body temperature of 34°C is the code to crack the supernatural rules; Gu Mingyuan, the president of the Folklore Association, distorts time and space with the 28-constellation astrolabe, just to resurrect his sister who was sealed by the Soul-Suppressing Division.