Late at night, a pair of white lanterns quietly appear at the entrance to the unassuming Qingyue Temple, at the far end of the antique street.
Twenty-two-year-old Xia Yu returns to his master's old shop, left unattended for years since his disappearance, and accepts a strange trial: complete three assignments involving the inhuman within three months.
But the real uncanny events have only just begun.
A woman as pale as paper arrives, carrying a tidal wave of resentment. She seeks not revenge, but the secret of a living husband in an ordinary residential complex on the other side of the city.
"Sunshine Garden, Building 12, Zhang Ming."
The white lanterns are lit. The wheels of fate are turning.
With the peachwood sword his master left behind in hand, Xia Yu steps into the mist.
He must face not only the unquiet obsessions of the dead and terrifying dark arts, but also the rules hidden beneath this ancient street and the mystery of his own origins.
One lantern, one doorway, guiding the way between the worlds of the living and the dead.
