Liu Shiyu has had a secret since he was a child: he can see things that others cannot.
The old snake coiled at the entrance of the alley will sigh, furry shadows are hidden under the neon lights on the Bund, and the plane trees in the French Concession will whisper at night.
When he said it, no one believed him. His father said he was mentally ill, and the editor said he was suffering from hysteria when he wrote the manuscript.
So he learned to shut up, learn to pretend he couldn't see, and learn to be a "normal" person in this bizarre city.
Until he took over a serial disappearance case.
All clues point to an antique shop without a signboard near Shiliupu Pier. The shopkeeper is a young man wearing a moon-white gown. He has a cold face and speaks slowly, like someone who has stepped out of an old painting.
Yin Jibai lived for eight hundred years.
He is a descendant of the White Snake, an observer sent by the demon world to the human world, and the sea-fixing needle of the demon clan in Shanghai. He has seen the overthrow of dynasties, the rise of concessions, and countless human beings growing old, sick and dying in front of him. He thought his heart had been hardened long ago.
But the little reporter who rashly broke into the antique store squatted down and looked at him sitting on the window sill, and said softly——
"Don't be afraid, I'm not here to cause trouble."
Eight hundred years. For the first time, someone said to him, "Don't be afraid."
One is a reporter who was born with yin and yang eyes and is regarded as a madman by the whole world.
One is a snake demon who has lived too long and has long forgotten how to be tempted.
A serial disappearance case involving both human and demon worlds, a cooperation that began with suspicion and temptation. The wonton stall in the alley, the jazz music at Paramount, the mist on the Suzhou River, the whistle at Shiliupu Pier——
They want to find the truth and each other in this city that is about to be engulfed by war.
"I see you."
"Me too."
Concept: Seeing is the beginning of understanding
