He can see the deepest secrets in dreams, yet cannot unravel the mystery of his own fate.
Shen Jianshen is a brilliant detective who can enter other people’s dreams. In the bizarre world of the mind, he is the lone hunter, pursuing clues woven from memories and desires. Every time he wakes from a dream, it means a real-world mystery is about to be solved, until he takes on the “Seventh Primary School Cold Case.”
In a dream filled with blood-red moonlight and eerie nursery rhymes, he sees a door marked with a cross-shaped crack. Beyond it, golden wheat sways beneath the blood moon. The moment he wakes, his assistant Lei Lie calls, just as expected: “I found a clue! The music room door looks exactly like the one in your dream!”
But this is only the beginning. A children’s cassette tape found soon afterward not only reproduces the nursery rhyme from the dream, but also contains background sounds whose acoustic signature perfectly matches that of an experimental wheat field in the real world. When sealed archives are opened, the disappearance of a young girl fifteen years ago comes to light. Every clue points to that strange wheat field and the chilling nursery rhyme:
“Bright moonlight shines on the wheat field, seven little children out of sight. One comes back, one goes away, and one remains behind the door...”
As the dreams begin to predict reality with uncanny precision, Shen Jianshen realizes he is hunting not only a hidden killer, but also a brutal truth the world has collectively forgotten. And he himself seems to have gone from an outsider “profiler” to the last person caught up in it: the one “behind the door.”
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