In the eighth year of the Republic of China, a horrific murder occurred in the Fang family in Tongcheng: the second concubine Shen was disemboweled and hung on an old locust tree. The organs were arranged like sacrifices, but there was not even an inch of shadow under the body. Modern policewoman Lin Wantong suddenly suffered a cardiac arrest while flipping through the dusty files of an unsolved case. When she woke up, she found that she had become the "party" in the unsolved case - the young lady of the Fang family, also named Lin Wantong.
What's even weirder is that she soon discovered that Shen's death was not an isolated case. From the witchcraft case in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, to the corpse embroidery case in Lin'an in the Southern Song Dynasty, to the ghost dowry in Jinling in the Ming Dynasty, and the blood peony in the capital of the late Qing Dynasty... Every three hundred years, there is an unsolved case with exactly the same technique, which is officially labeled as "not a human act." Among the witnesses of each case, there is a woman named "Xu Tong".
They are women from different eras - a widower, a stable mother-in-law, a matchmaker, an embroiderer, a female school teacher, and a female newspaper reporter - with different identities, but they are all involved in the whirlpool due to a supernatural murder case, and eventually they all end up in the same dry well. The walls of the well are engraved with their names, and with each additional name, the well becomes one foot deeper.
Lin Wantong found that he had to look back on the memories of women with the character "Tong" in the past generations and unravel the cursed truth behind each case. And the "man in the well" who controls everything is smiling at her in the shadow of every era through the moonlight.
——This is a detective story spanning a thousand years, a game between women and fate. When the blood moon rises again, the last woman with the word "tong" must make a choice: to become another name on the wall of the well, or to break the reincarnation and let the people in the well truly wake up.
