Lin Ye, a down-on-his-luck young man with 300,000 yuan in debt, takes a job paying 200,000 yuan a day: spend the night in a haunted house. He needs the money to save his mother's life.
Location: Room 404, Happiness Residential Compound, in the old district of Jiangcheng.
The rules are simple: make it until dawn and the money is yours; break the rules and your life is mine.
But when Lin Ye steps into the old house, thick with the sweet, rancid stench of dead rats, he discovers that things are far stranger than he imagined.
The viewer count in the livestream is stuck at 4,444 and won't go any higher;
there's another “himself” hiding in the wardrobe;
the bathroom mirror reflects no faces;
his dead ex-girlfriend sends him a warning in the comments;
and the mysterious man who calls himself the “landlord” tells him: You are the first tenant to make it out of here alive.
As the midnight bells ring, Lin Ye gradually realizes that this house doesn't eat people. It eats “identities.”
When you confirm who you are in the mirror, when you say a ghost's name, when you believe the “person” beside you...
You lose.
And Lin Ye's biggest secret may not be whether he can make it until dawn, but who he really is.
After all, the name on the property deed has apparently never been his.
