Mo Ran Liaozhai: Soul Crossing Man

On a rainy night, folklorist Chen Yan was trying to save the original manuscript of "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio" in the ancient book library, but was swept into another world by the black ink like a living thing. When I woke up, the black tea soup in "Meng Po Yi" and the dismemberment massacre in front of the Lu Pan Temple all confirmed that this was not the gentle chateau described by Pu Songling - but the "mirror trap" tampered with by the "Yinsi Pavilion": spirits were manipulated, human beings had their "souls" sucked away, and the world's borders were collapsing with the conspiracy of the soul-eating beast to resurrect. The manuscript wrapped around his wrist became the only clue. The words that appeared automatically on each page guided him to uncover the secret of the curse of the fox demon Qingli, and to get acquainted with the scholar Yagyu who fought against the puppet to save his sister. The trio teamed up to investigate, starting from the human skin mask in the underground palace of the City God's Temple, to the out-of-control musical spirit Xiaoqian in Lanruo Temple, to Yingning who was locked in tears at Xiaowangpo, and step by step they uncovered the conspiracy of the "faceless man" in the Yinsi Pavilion: Lu Panxin, Painted Face, Xiaoqianyin, and Yingning Lei were gathered together to use Chen Yan's mother (a boundary keeper for generations) to build a "thinking world" to sacrifice his soul to resurrect the soul-eating beast. On one side is the obsession to go home, and on the other side is the deepening bond with the people around him. Chen Yan holds the blood-stained manuscript and combines modern criminal investigation thinking with folk secrets. In the life and death situation of a human being and a demon, he has to make a choice: Should he break through the gate of the end and return to reality, or become a "soul traveler" who protects all living beings in Liaozhai? Everywhere the ink light touches is the prelude to redemption and struggle.