Tales of Strange Things by Lamplight

Fourteen-year-old Lin Wanxing is timid and socially anxious. She lives alone in an old residential compound lined with plane trees, left behind by her parents, guarding a yellowed notebook and a worn, polished key. For six years, she has avoided the truth about her parents' “accidental” deaths.

Then, one night, a strange knock shatters the silence. The door remains still, but the key has quietly moved. The closed notebook opens by itself, and a warning about “danger” is hidden in her mother's cryptic handwriting. In the darkness, a cold gaze follows her, and a hoarse voice whispers in her ear: “Find it...”

Rumors spread through the compound, and secrets lie buried in an abandoned building. Her parents' strange behavior before their deaths, an old case in which someone was framed, and the mysterious “shadow person” all combine into a web of mysteries that closes around her. Forced to leave her comfort zone, the timid girl begins searching for the truth, accompanied by Shen Zhiyan, the convenience store owner who watches over her with gentle care, and Su Ran, her scatterbrained best friend.

When the old case comes to light and the truth behind the “accident” is revealed, she discovers that her parents' deaths were never a coincidence. And the shadow pursuing her for the “truth” has its own hidden pain and obsession.

In the faint glow of evening lamps, strange shadows trail her. A search for redemption and truth slowly begins in the dead of night in the old plane-tree compound. She must uncover the truth about her parents' deaths, save the person trapped by obsession, and become her own light.