Lin Bing's life lacked a piece of living water.
Ever since that unbelievable encounter in the locust tree forest when he was young, a kind of thirst at the soul level has been with him. Until the night of the winter solstice, he violated the only taboo left by his grandfather and drew a plum blossom on the foggy window. The dusty book "Collections of Folk Stories in the Countryside" suddenly opened, and the bloody writing appeared:
"The ink attracts the cold and evil spirits, and the snow under the eaves never returns."
Outside the window, the sound of nails scraping against the glass came from far to near.
When he was about to die, his grandfather's handwriting appeared in the book, teaching him how to survive with ashes and dumpling soup. Lin Bing, who survived the disaster, found that he was forced to inherit a "contract" that spanned time and space: a manual full of weird folk customs, a cold-repelling picture with three missing strokes, and a reminder about life and death - the cold-relieving picture was missing three strokes, and the old house hid mysteries.
In order to survive, he must return to his hometown in the Central Plains where it all started. In the process of filling up the three "virtual plum blossoms", he gradually revealed the chilling truth: his grandfather did not die of illness, but died trying to seal something; his fatal "thirst" was actually the key to opening those taboo doors.
The iron tube temple at the bottom of the Yellow River, the coffin corpse in the ancient locust tree, the curse of the village without a well... Every time he solves a puzzle, he gets one step closer to the secret guarded by his grandfather and the mysterious "Mr. Chen", and one step closer to the truth of his own fate.
The "living water" he seeks may be at the end of all legends.
But the price that needs to be paid for drinking it may be far beyond what one person's life can bear.
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