Chen Wang is a smooth-talking heir to the jianghu’s art of deception, an expert in feng shui scams and psychological manipulation. After a car accident, he wakes up with nine strangers in a sealed Yin-Yang Inn. The eerie paper-doll innkeeper announces the brutal rules of a folk-custom death game: only one of the ten can survive. As murderous threats close in and his companions scheme against one another, Chen Wang discovers that this strange realm, called the “World of the Great Nuo,” has only 23 hours and 59 minutes in each day. As an outsider soul, he gets an extra 60 seconds each day, during which time stops completely! While everyone else fights to the death for a chance to survive and is driven into a corner by evil spirits, Chen Wang uses split-second time stops to rewrite the ghosts’ killing patterns and switch out his companions’ hidden cards. He walks the edge of death with brazen confidence, using masterful micro-management and top-tier deception to overturn, step by step, this folk-custom death trap orchestrated by the gods!
