Lin Mo, a food delivery boy in an urban village, keeps a strange jade pendant he found tucked against his chest. After that, a flying neighbor and classmates who eat their textbooks become part of his daily life, while the pressure of rising rent still binds him like a chain to reality.
Then, one stormy night, he is forced to deliver an order to a nonexistent 17th floor. A woman in a red dress who is a ghost, moving braised snacks, and a fake-police puppet appear one after another. Only then does he realize the pendant is no ordinary trinket. It is called the Soul-Locking Jade. It should have shattered twenty years ago, yet it has branded him with the mark of a “sacrifice.”
Uncle Zhao, who runs the grocery shop downstairs, seems kind, but is always laying traps in secret. A mysterious young man suddenly appears, knowing the pendant’s past but hiding something behind his inscrutable gaze. As old newspapers from twenty years ago, a burning house, and the silhouette of a woman in red surge through his memories, Lin Mo discovers he has long been caught up in a scheme that spans life and death.
Those uncanny things that defy common sense are the threads of fate; encounters that seem like chance are all carefully laid hunts. He must tear a way out of his fate as a “sacrifice,” but every step toward the truth brings an even more terrifying presence peering out of the shadows. It turns out what he found was no jade pendant, but a blood-red entanglement stretching across two lifetimes.
