Deep in the Qinling Mountains lies a village forever shrouded in thick fog: Qingwu Village.
“Don’t go back to Qingwu Village.” The hurried note left by Lin Mo’s father before he disappeared became an obsession he could never shake. After twenty years away from his hometown, Lin Mo ignored the police’s helplessness and resolutely entered this forbidden place, carrying only the fragments of his childhood memories.
As soon as he passed through the stone archway, the dense green fog swallowed the path behind him. The endless “ghost wall” loop, shadows watching from the mist, strange stickiness beneath slimy moss, and a faint, sickly-sweet stench of decay swept him into a vortex of terror. Never leave a lamp unlit at night, never go outside when the fog rolls in, and never speak of Black Pine Ridge. The old-timers’ superstitious taboos became warnings of death within arm’s reach when Lin Mo witnessed the evil lurking in the mist and saw the villagers’ guarded expressions.
The sudden appearance of the mysterious young woman Zhao Xiaoya, along with her strange ability to ward off evil with mugwort, opened a narrow path to survival, but raised even more questions. What did his father’s disappearance have to do with the serpent god worship passed down through generations in the village? What sacrificial conspiracy lay behind the century-old feud between the Lin and Zhao families? And what dark truth would be revealed by the dilapidated Lin family residence, with scratching sounds inside its walls and a secret diary hidden in the kang?
When the blood moon rises, the shadowy secret of Black Pine Ridge awakens, the specters of the Yinluo Cult emerge, and the seal on the passage to the underworld begins to loosen. Only then does Lin Mo realize that he is not merely searching for his father: he is also the key to breaking the curse. He must struggle between reason and the uncanny, break through clan oppression and supernatural attacks, and join hands with Zhao Xiaoya to uncover the long-buried secrets of their bloodlines and fight a curse of reincarnation that has endured for centuries.
This is a heart-pounding journey to find a missing loved one.
