[Rules-based horror | Fast-paced episodic cases | Clear-headed, rational heroine | Strong team-up | Manhunt and revenge]
Every old object burdened by an obsession hides a set of survival rules that will devour you.
Cross the line and die. Break the rules and perish.
Lin Zhan is a rules purifier who dropped out of school to open an antique shop, specializing in junk haunted by sinister rules.
A secondhand full-length mirror bought on Xianyu for 99 yuan will steal your life if you look into it in the middle of the night.
A used air conditioner picked up for 50 yuan at a rental apartment will drag you into a deadly loop if you leave it running after midnight.
A child’s rocking horse found abandoned by the road can bring death with a single angry remark...
The cursed objects everyone else flees from are, to her, cries for help from wronged souls.
She tears through rule-based traps, exposes bullies’ disguises, and puts exploitative bosses behind bars. She fights for justice on behalf of those who died unjustly.
She does it all to find her older sister, Lin Xi, a top rules purifier in China who mysteriously disappeared six months ago.
Then former detective Chen Ye bursts in for help, and the two discover that every rule-bound antique marked with black fingernail scratches is bait laid by the mastermind, the “Scavenger.”
Her sister’s disappearance, Chen Ye’s partner going missing, and the city’s string of strange disappearances are all part of his plan.
As the entire city becomes his hunting ground, Lin Zhan stands at the mouth of the abyss, a copper bell in her hand:
You used rules to build a hell. I’ll use them to tear your lair apart.
This time, either you let my sister go, or I’ll trap you in your own obsession forever, with no chance of ever rising again.
