On the eve of the Songhu Battle in 1937, the Shanghai Concession was prosperous on the surface, but in fact there was an undercurrent. When forensic doctor Lu Mingyuan dissected the seventh corpse with its eyes gouged out, he discovered that the church-colored sand in the fingernails of the corpse was exactly the same as the residue at the scene of the Lu family massacre in 1918. At the same time, Zhou Mubai, the "Red Stick" of the Youth Gang, appeared with a broken yin-yang bronze mirror. The truth about the fire in the delivery room in 1918 was reflected in the mirror - among the twins who were exchanged that year, Lu Mingyuan was the survivor, and Zhou Mubai was his long-lost twin brother.
As the investigation deepened, the two discovered that the "Twin Evil Stars" curse had never disappeared. Every 19 years, a pair of twins appear in Shanghai, and one of them must die to break the curse. Now, the curse has been resurrected due to the collusion between the Japanese secret service and the Youth Gang. The bloody hexagram has enveloped the Huangpu River, and the memories of all those involved are being tampered with.
When the bronze mirror is completely broken, Lu Mingyuan and Zhou Mubai must make a choice: follow their fate and kill each other, or break the reincarnation and go to the abyss together? In this duel between science and metaphysics, the fate of the twins is closely linked to the survival of the entire city...
Keywords: suspense of the Republic of China, two male protagonists, fateful reincarnation, science vs metaphysics, brotherly bond
