The most terrifying thing in this world isn't ghosts, but the human heart. More poisonous than corpse venom is the sickness of poverty.
Lin Mo, a former criminal-investigation psychology prodigy, is desperate to raise the 8,000 yuan a day needed to keep his younger sister alive in the ICU. With no choice, he becomes a haunted-house sleeper, venturing to the edge of life and death.
A closet that opens by itself in the middle of the night, an abandoned theater echoing with shrill operatic singing, an unfinished building that devours the living... In his livestream, watched by countless viewers, he has no peachwood sword or talismans, only a nail gun, a level, and chemical reagents. He uses physics to solve “ghost walls” and architecture to deconstruct “haunted houses,” tearing open the bloody criminal truth behind every supernatural rumor with his own hands.
But as one haunted house after another is cleared of its supernatural reputation, Lin Mo discovers that every case points to a mysterious madman known as the “Architect”: an enemy who treats murder as an art of construction and destroyed his life.
Night falls. Lin Mo slings his tool bag over his shoulder and opens the door no living person should enter. “There are no ghosts in this world. If there are, I'll catch one and sell it for a good price.”
