In Qingya Town, deep in the mountains of western Hunan, there is a white paper alley. At the end of the alley is the Chen family's paper-making shop. The shop has been passed down for six generations. On the surface, it does paper-making, but in fact it guards a barrier - the smoke from the paper-making is used to guide the road. When the road is broken, the things underground are left with the living people.
Chen Du is 26 years old and works in advertising design in Changsha. He has nothing to do with the paper shop. It wasn't until his grandfather died and he returned to town for the funeral that he found out that he was named to take over the shop. The last page of the ledger was torn off, and there was a name written on it that was "not clean yet." If he doesn't answer, that name will always hang on his head; if he does, he has to guard the shop, guard the taboos, and guard the things under the ground that shouldn't be left behind.
There are ten taboos in the shop - paper figures cannot draw eyes, do not open the door at midnight, and cannot answer someone crying at the door... Each taboo corresponds to a terrible price. Every time one is broken, it is one step closer to the truth and one step closer to the abyss. This is a story about a paper man keeping vigil and a story about a living person finding his way.
