The "Yitan Zhai" deep in the old city hides a copy of "The Record of Thousand Nights" that has been sealed for thousands of years. After history graduate Su Yan inherited the bookstore, he unexpectedly awakened the power of ancient books and became the successor with the mission of "keeper of records" - he must complete thousands of stories of resentful spirits, resolve obsessions, and prevent them from becoming tools for the plundering power of the soul chasers.
The ghostly energy spreading on the fingertips is the mark of fate, and the dusty secrets in the attic are the warnings left by the grandmother. Su Yan teamed up with Fa Xiaolin Wanqiu and spirit painter Zhao Xiaoyi to step into strange illusions woven by obsession: the embroiderer in an ancient house wrapped the unfinished wedding dress with silk thread, the famous actors in the theater sang about love, hate, anger and obsession in the light and shadow, and the descendants of the Mohist family used ink to build a heart-devouring maze... Every story is a redemption, and every puzzle is closer to the origin of "The Record of Thousand Nights".
And the soul chasers headed by Gu Chenzhou are pressing forward step by step. They devour the resentful spirits, control puppets, and attempt to control the order of the spiritual world with dark secrets. When Su Yan glimpsed the secrets of ancient books in Mo Yuan's netherworld ink, and touched the cracks in time and space in Yue Ji's moon shadow barrier, he gradually understood: the end of obsession is never destruction, and the meaning of protection is more than redemption.
The gears of millennium grudges are slowly turning, and the ultimate showdown between the record keepers and the soul chasers is about to begin. Holding the restored "Thousand Nights Record" in hand, Su Yan faced not only powerful resentful spirits and enemies, but also his own inner choice of destiny - to become the guardian of ancient books, or to be the rewriter who breaks the cycle?
