In the third month of Zhao Zhexi's night shift at a convenience store, he discovered that the rusty copper lock at the cash register sighed. Ember City is a prison that cannot be escaped. It was blocked by higher-dimensional beings a hundred years ago, and the life energy of the residents is slowly harvested. What's even weirder is that a large number of everyday objects in the city have become spirits - the handrails of the last bus remember the fears of every passenger, unsent confessions are hidden in scrapped mobile phones, and the elevators of old residential buildings imitate the breathing of drowning people. Zhao Zhexi has a special ability: as long as he sees the thing spirit with his own eyes and recites its true name silently, he can increase his favorability and unlock incredible hidden functions. Old photos can play back the last minute view of the deceased, a broken elevator can reach any floor in the city, and even the scrapped coffee machine in a convenience store can brew a cup of "forgotten concentrate" that makes people temporarily forget their pain. But the price is - he will foresee the death of people around him every few days. The clearer the prediction, the faster one's life energy will be harvested. He couldn't prevent death, so he could only gamble on a shorter lifespan and change the ending to the version with the least casualties. Until the woman named Liu Suzhen walked into the convenience store, followed by an invisible Hu family's immortal vein. She stared at the cup of coffee in Zhao Zhexi's hand that did not belong to any product, and smiled: "Are you also someone who has been marked by the cage owner?"
