Twenty-four-year-old Lin Yan is an ordinary copy editor. While searching for his older sister, who has been missing for three years, he rents a room on the cheap in an old apartment block by the river in Jiangcheng, a place no one dares live. The sinister building has registered him...
His dead sister knocks at midnight. A black-paper receipt demands his life, and a seven-day countdown begins.
The cage of rules seals off every path to survival, while infighting among the tenants rots their humanity.
A life-taking game born from a rental agreement ends with gentleness overcoming evil and redemption bringing closure, dispelling the century-old gloom that hangs over the entire building...
I only wanted to find my sister and stay alive, but I unexpectedly rewrote a century-old fate and redeemed the obsessions of countless souls...
