I can see the color of sin. The price is slowly becoming blind.
Social horror painter Xi Chi has a secret: at any crime scene, he can "see" the traces of the murderer's remaining emotions - fear is emerald green, anger is dark purple, and despair is a thick black mist. This is the legacy of a genetic experiment conducted twenty-two years ago.
But this ability has a fatal flaw: every time it is used, the right eye will be temporarily blinded for ten seconds.
Detective Captain Xian Qingye didn't believe in this "metaphysics" until Xi Chi accurately predicted the second murder based on an anonymous painting when the police had no clue.
The three-legged golden crow graffiti on the wall of an abandoned factory, the metal feathers tucked into the broken pages of ancient books, and the exact same symbols at the scene of the unsolved crime twenty years ago——
All clues point to an ancient copy of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" that should not exist.
But as they chased deeper and deeper, Xi Chi discovered that what he "saw" was not the truth, but a trap that had been carefully woven for twenty-two years.
"What you see is what she - your mother - wants you to see."
Mountains and seas serve as punishment, and strange beasts serve as warnings. In this conspiracy that spans two generations, he is the only key and the only sacrifice.
