On his way home from work, twenty-five-year-old Chen Mo finds an unfamiliar family portrait tucked into the crack beneath his door.
On the back of the photo, it says:
April 17, 7:00 p.m. Building 4, Room 404, Xingfu Residential Complex.
Please join us for a family dinner.
Anyone who fails to attend will die.
Chen Mo doesn't go. But when the appointed time arrives, Room 404 appears outside his home.
Warm and welcoming parents, a well-behaved older brother, a silent younger sister, and eight guests who don't know one another. Each night, one person vanishes without a sound. The next morning, everyone is convinced that person never existed.
After that, an indestructible family portrait, a bus ticket for a route that stopped running thirteen years ago, and a dormitory key engraved with an unfamiliar address all come looking for Chen Mo, one after another.
Behind every contract relic lies a story that refuses to end.
If he wants to come back alive, he must uncover the truth.
But Night Contracts never lie, and they never tell the whole story.
