The Rules of the Old House

The story takes place in an old town in the south of the Yangtze River called "Huaiyin Town". There is a century-old house "Chen Family Courtyard" in the town. The Chen family was a prominent local family before liberation. After the family moved away in the 1980s, the old house has remained vacant to this day and has become a "haunted house" among the children in the town. The protagonist, Chen Mo, is the fourth generation descendant of the Chen family. After graduating from college, he was unhappy in the city. Suddenly he received a letter from a lawyer saying that he had inherited the ancestral home. He returned to the old house he had been away from for twenty years. He thought he could sell it for money and turn around, but he found that he was trapped in a space that followed some strange rules.