A contract inherited from blood, a wooden door that only opens at midnight.
After the death of his grandmother, programmer Lin Feng was forced to inherit his ancestral property at the end of an old street in an ancient town - a "Zi Shi Inn" that only opened at midnight. He soon discovered that the guests here were not living people: there were scholars rushing to take exams who were looking for their heads; there were filthy resentments that had been sealed for hundreds of years and burst out of the jar; there was a psychic old woman who was obsessed with the mystery of her disappearance half a century ago... Every transaction is recorded in an ancient "Yin Yang Account", and the price may be money, memory, luck, or even a relationship.
During the day, he is an ordinary returning youth in the ancient town; at night, he is the shopkeeper of the "Zi Shi Inn" at the junction of Yin and Yang. With the help of the cold-faced and impermanent Mr. Xie Qi and the mysterious paper girl "waiter", he deals with the obsession of the dead, folk customs and the unfathomable rules of the underworld.
However, the inn itself hides a bigger secret: it guards a rift connecting Yin and Yang, and what flows in Lin Feng's blood is the heavy contract signed by his ancestors and the underworld. As each transaction is completed, he not only unlocks the long-cherished wish of the visitor, but also steps closer to the truth about his family's curse, and the ultimate purpose of the "Yin Yang Account" - it may not only be an account book, but also the key to rewriting the rules of Yin and Yang.
Chinese folklore × supernatural legend in unit drama × identity mystery buried deep in the main plot
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Immersive folklore and weirdness: pottery urns under water to seal away evil spirits, nails driven into skulls, the ancient ritual of asking for rice to summon spirits... The story is deeply rooted in the soil of Chinese horror.
