Strange Tales of the Dao: Record of the True Mysteries of Xuanyuan

In 2026, on the eve of the Spring Festival in the Year of the Fire Horse, Chen Xuan, a PhD in folklore, discovers a late Qing-era journal among his grandfather's belongings. It records the “Great Calamity of the Fire Horse Year.” At the same time, inexplicable “year-end anomalies” begin appearing across the country: incense smoke flowing backward on New Year's Eve, blood-red lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and villages that collectively “vanish” during phone livestreams... Chen Xuan is dragged into an occult catastrophe spanning a century. Between the neon lights of modern cities and the shadows of ancient taboos, he uncovers a shocking secret about “how time itself was cursed.”