Lin Sui works the night shift at a late-night bookstore. Quiet and reserved, she has a strange “quirk” no one can explain: whenever she’s nervous or lost in thought, the fingers of her right hand unconsciously draw circles clockwise, faster the more anxious she gets. She always thought it was just a compulsion, until she found an old, dusty mirror in the attic.
A man is trapped inside the mirror. He calls himself Shen Jin. He tells her the mirror devours people’s dreams, and that every circle she casually draws is actually a “seal,” locking away memories, thoughts, and even living things within invisible boundaries. He reveals the truth to her, and she helps him recover the real name sealed away from him thirty years ago. The price is that the supernatural currents buried beneath the entire old street for thirty years begin to stir.
The previous seal keeper appears and tells her there are six “openings” beneath the street. Over the course of five nights, she must draw circles at each one to seal the cracks beneath half the street. She succeeds. Shen Jin breaks free of the mirror, but the final twist is an anonymous note bearing just two words
“Your home.”
Only then does Lin Sui realize that she has drawn countless circles but never the one on herself. And the things she has “sealed away” since childhood may be waking up.
A modern supernatural tale of sealing and being sealed, memory and forgetting. When the one who seals discovers she is also sealed, the real horror is only just beginning.
