In 1984, 13 people disappeared from Qinglan Sanatorium, and the files were burned. Forty years later, a transfer register was unearthed in the ruins. It listed two people as Number 14. One was named Gu Nian, the other Chen Wangshan. They couldn’t both be the same person, unless someone had stolen a name.
In the winter of 2024, the three brothers Quan Zhuofei entered the mountains with a letter of commission bearing a “V.” They were forbidden to call the police. There were no ghosts. The severed phone lines, ransacked luggage, and blasted mountain road all pointed to that old case.
The dead caretaker had the number 15 of Wudao carved into her arm. Thirteen people on the missing persons list, twelve in the snowbound villa: who did the extra name belong to?
