Bai Ruhui, a former night watchman at a funeral parlor, is now an investigator of urban paranormal incidents. He makes a living by collecting the relics of the deceased, and every dusty item contains a whisper that cannot be rested. At the edge of the city where strange shadows spread, Bai Ruhui was hired to investigate a series of "disappearance" cases: these missing persons were nameless and nameless in the world, disappearing as if they were being swallowed by reality itself. His motivation is not justice, but the search for himself - due to the supernatural disaster he experienced in his childhood, his soul is incomplete and he can only piece together the fragments among the things of the dead. The highlight of the story is that Bai Ruhui is not fighting against ghosts, but dealing with forgotten memories, social indifference and his own sense of fragmentation. He steps into every crime scene, and the deeper he investigates, the more blurred the line between reality and the spiritual world, and he gradually realizes that he may be the source of all this darkness. The novel uses a gloomy and poetic style to analyze the delicacy of the human heart and the loneliness of the city, showing how paranormal investigators seek salvation in despair.
