The Soul Binding Platform is an ancient platform for suppressing grievances. Every ten years, a living person must be sacrificed.
Shen Jinghe stayed at the station for three years, and his life was uneventful - painting charms, patrolling the station, and bickering with his junior sister Zhou Tang. Until one snowy night, a man walked out of the crack under the platform. He has white clothes and white hair, and a cinnabar mole in the corner of his left eye. When drawing amulets, he moves his ring finger first - this is the unique habit of his senior brother Gu Xueshi, who has been missing for seven years.
But the senior brother didn't recognize him.
Because the crack will completely collapse in three days, and Gu Xueshi plans to go back and die alone. Seven years ago, he made a living sacrifice for Shen Jinghe, living next to resentment at the bottom of the stage, his hair turned white, and he used his own blood to seal the cracks over and over again. He carved "Jinghe, don't come down" on the stone wall - but Shen Jinghe insisted on going down.
When Shen Jinghe drew the lost "Common Fate Pattern" and tied his life to his senior brother, they discovered that what was suppressing deep under the stage was not resentment, but a being who had been sleeping for more than three hundred years. It was sealed in the hearts of the first generation of Taiwanese guardians, and they have been learning it - from the resentment, and from the blood of generations of Taiwanese guardians. Learn to speak, learn to beat your heart, learn to reach out.
It's called Zhou Xing. The child left behind in the Zhou family's bloodline.
When Zhou Xing's heart emerges from the formation's eyes, when it learns to call three people's names, when it uses stones to spell out its body, grows blood vessels, and takes the first step - Shen Jinghe, Gu Xueshi, and Zhou Tang guard it, teach it to hold a pen, teach it to recognize the road, and watch it return the dead branches, pine cones, pebbles, and petals it picked up to their original places.
It turns out that what the people guarding the platform were guarding was not suppression, but the process of a child learning to be a human being from the darkness. It turns out that the first ancestor sealed the heart into the stone, not because he was afraid that it would come out, but because he was afraid that people outside would find it.
The stone hand carrying the bamboo basket from the spirit-binding platform to the bottom of the mountain was not holding a weapon, but a wild flower. It said: "Wherever you go from now on, I know the way."
A platform, three people, and a child growing out of a stone. They watch for each other and learn to go home.
Intention: The value of life does not lie in asking for and hoarding, but in seeing, remembering and returning.