[Unsettling everyday life + high-pressure survival + eerie mystery + no heroine + no way back + fighting to survive]
Chen Feng is just an ordinary food delivery guy. All he wants is to finish his last delivery and go home for a good night’s sleep. Then a serving of malatang with the instruction “Please deliver before midnight” sends him to “the other side of the world.”
Trapped in an endless loop, he witnesses a knocking ghost slaughter its victims and is forced to become a ghost handler. A ghostly mark is carved into his heart, and he has only seven days left. He thinks he’s found a lifeline, but discovers it’s only the beginning of another countdown. The authorities assign him the designation D-14: a disposable asset with a shelf life of 167 hours.
“I, Chen Feng, have no interest in the supernatural and don’t want to get involved with anyone. I just want to protect my world.”
Without thinking, he raises his pale hand and gives the empty air a gentle knock. The next second, a bone-chilling “thump” comes from somewhere in the distance. He has learned the “Ghost’s Knock.” Every knock feels like it’s striking the lid of his own coffin, hastening the revival of the vicious ghost inside him.
“Don’t trust anyone,” he mutters to himself. It is the warning he heard from a dead ghost handler, and his only rule for staying alive. On the other side of the world, all Chen Feng has left is a cold shell of a body and a soul that refuses to sink into despair.
