When Mingyuan wakes in a daze, consumed by obsessive love, he discovers that he has become the exquisite cloth doll that the protagonist, Lin Zeshen, keeps beside his bed in a horror novel.
With a porcelain-white face, glassy eyes, and thread-stitched lips curved in an eerie smile, this seemingly harmless body conceals his near-mad fixation on Lin Zeshen.
He fell for Lin Zeshen’s cool-headed resilience in the horror game while reading the book, twisting his admiration into a love that could not bear to be apart. Now, as a doll who can stay by Lin Zeshen’s side day and night, he finally has the chance to put this “devotion” into practice.
Lin Zeshen often feels that a pair of eyes is watching him silently from somewhere out of sight. Books flip open by themselves to the pages he reads most, a glass of water always appears within reach when he is thirsty, and anyone who tries to get close to him meets with a bizarre accident sooner or later.
He confides his real-life troubles to the doll and tells it about the dangers he faces in the game, unaware that behind those glassy eyes, Mingyuan murmurs possessively, “Don’t be afraid. I’ll protect you.”
“But you can only be mine, whether in the real world or in that damn horror game.”
Threads wind around them, and love becomes a shackle. In the form of a doll, Mingyuan quietly weaves a web called “control,” trapping his light, Lin Zeshen, firmly at its center.
