Mystery + deduction + crime + a touch of horror
The old Yongning Building is the most notorious forbidden place in Yunzhou City.
The rent is just 300 a month, but the lease warns, "Tenants bear full responsibility for life and death." Over the past thirty years, tenants have gone mad, vanished, or died in bizarre circumstances, and every murder case has ultimately been hastily written off as an accident. The footsteps of someone walking alone at midnight, reflections in mirrors that lag behind, whispers trapped inside the walls: no one knows that there are no ghosts in this building, only meticulously laid traps of death.
Lin Yan is the sole survivor of the case in which his entire family vanished from the old building ten years ago. He is content to scrape by as a real estate agent, keeping watch over this murder house, all to uncover the truth behind his family's disappearance. Su Wan, a former female criminal investigator who was dismissed from the force, carries the unresolved case of her loved one's brutal death with her. Disguised as a tenant, she sneaks inside, determined to unearth the evidence buried in the past.
One is solemn, the other witty; one is cold, the other warm. The two are forced together by the seemingly flawless case of an internet celebrity found hanged.
The strange old man living alone, the delivery worker who only comes out at night, and the landlord who has played dumb for half his life: everyone in the building is hiding an unspeakable secret. Paranormal phenomena faked with acoustic tricks, bones buried in hidden wall compartments, case files maliciously altered, and a series of murders spanning three generations: every clue points to the shocking mass disappearance that happened ten years ago.
Every echo is the grievance of someone dead who could not rest in peace; every smiling face conceals murderous intent.
They dig deeper at every turn, only to realize that the old building was built as a prison for hiding crimes, and the mastermind controlling everything has been watching their every move from the shadows all along.
The dead never lie, but the truth is far more chilling than any haunting.
