In order to complete his thesis, Lu Qinghe, a graduate student in folklore, came to the "Old Street" of Jiangnan Ancient Town to investigate supernatural legends. Residents here have passed down from generation to generation: Don't look in the mirror late at night, as what you see in the mirror is not your own body.
There is a century-old antique shop "Jinghuayuan" at the end of the old street. The owner is an eccentric old man who is always cleaning bronze mirrors. Lu Qinghe rented the attic of a shop, and on the first night he was shocked into a cold sweat by the Warring States Period bronze mirror in the attic - what was reflected in the mirror was not a room, but a rainy night in the old street in 1987, with a woman in a white cheongsam running on the bluestone, with black shadows behind her.
What's even weirder is that in the early morning of the next day, wet footprints really appeared on the bluestone of the old street, and at the end was a broken dressing mirror.
As the investigation deepened, Lu Qinghe discovered that all the mirrors in the old street had problems: the mirrors in the barber shop would reflect the customers of the Republic of China, the water vapor in the mirrors in the bathhouse would condense into ancient characters, and even the reflection of his mobile phone when the screen was black would suddenly grin.
All this points to the secret technique of annihilation of the "Baili" family of mirror makers in the Ming Dynasty - "Mirror Weaving Technique". Bailishi can weave fragments of different time and space into the mirror, and the mirror becomes a portal connecting the times. However, a certain family leader played with fire and burned himself, awakening the monster "Taotie" that feeds on time and space, and could only seal it in the Mirror Tomb at the cost of the entire family's lives.
Now, the seal is loosened and Taotie is about to break out of the mirror. What's even more frightening is that Lu Qinghe found that his memory was full of blanks, and his past was like a carefully edited movie - and he looked exactly like the Bailishi descendant in the mirror.
The night of the lunar eclipse is approaching, and the boundary between reality and Mirror Tomb begins to blur. Lu Qinghe must learn the mirror weaving technique before the old street is completely swallowed up, break into the mirror tomb, and face the ultimate question:
If you are real in the mirror,
Do you dare to break the mirror?
Concept: Every mirror is a crack in time, every reflection is a prisoner of history.