In the 20th year of Wanli, Shen Mo, the head of Shuntian Mansion, unexpectedly received half of the fragments of the unknown strange book "Strange Stories", which contained a method of "seeing people's desires and intentions among strange forces and chaotic gods", which was very different from the orthodox criminal names. Not long after, strange cases occurred one after another in the capital: capable officials all suddenly suffered from "heart disease", became mentally ill and made mistakes, and were subsequently questioned. Shen Mo followed the remains of the scroll and uncovered the slightest traces of mechanisms at the scene, and discovered a set of vicious techniques called "mind work" - hiding mechanisms in everyday objects, silently destroying people's minds. Since then, he has stepped into a huge web intertwined with stray magic, palace secrets and the shadow of party strife. And the "Stories" seemed to be alive, pulling him and attracting countless greedy and fearful eyes in the darkness.
