Synopsis of Season 1 of "Strange Mirror Division"
Lin Yan has a bronze mirror that can see ghosts. Every time you use it, you lose a piece of memory.
Three years ago, my sister Lin Xiaoyu fell into a mysterious coma, and her soul was trapped in a mirror world called "Xu". In order to save her, this folklore graduate student joined the secret organization "The Secret Mirror Division" and embarked on a journey to find the ancient mirror fragments.
The Nuo opera troupe in the mountains of western Hunan invites gods in the middle of the night, and the ghosts under the masks have been waiting for a hundred years; a shadow puppet artist in a Beijing alley dies mysteriously, and the figures behind the curtain dance on their own; in the Hundred Sons picture in the Suzhou embroidery workshop, the child blinks, and the embroiderer three hundred years ago refuses to leave; in the fire of the Longquan sword shop, the soul of the Longyuan sword is crying, and the blood of the swordsmith drips into the bronze mirror——
Each case corresponds to an endangered traditional skill and a soul trapped in obsession.
Every time he finds a fragment, Lin Yan is one step closer to his sister and one step closer to forgetting her.
When the Gate of Mirror Abyss finally opened, he faced not only the Immortal Society—a secret organization that has continued since the Ming Dynasty—but also his sister's last request:
"Brother, it's time for you to let go."
This is a story about obsession and farewell. Nuo opera, shadow puppets, embroidery, sword-making - those crafts that are about to disappear, and those who can't let go.
