In the damp, closed, and almost mythical "gilt troupe", the once famous monkey actor "Lian" was brought back to the troupe by the class leader Chen Hongnian after disappearing for twenty years.
Everyone thought he was an old flame.
Only A Shen, Chen Hongnian's son, gradually discovered that things were far more dangerous than love.
Lian didn't "come back".
He was "bought" back by his father after repaying his huge old debt.
The oldest rule in the gilding class is never about drama.
It is "creating gods".
Here, actors are not people, but "gods" who are enshrined, watched, and possessed.
Ah Shen was originally just the next heir to the monkey god, and he was indifferent to the troupe, rituals and his father's authority. Until he looked through the crack in the door for the first time and saw Lian taking off his waistband, and saw that the "god" who once made countless people crazy was now alive like a work of art damaged by time.
Desire begins to get out of control.
Ah Chen gradually realized that the way he looked at Lian was exactly the same as when his father was young.
As the Golden Mask Festival approaches, an increasingly dangerous power game develops between the three:
They attract each other, possess each other, and devour each other.
Until Ah Shen finally discovered:
He thought he was saving Lian, but in fact he was just becoming his father step by step.
Finally, at the Golden Mask Sacrifice, which is watched by thousands of people, the old gods must kneel down to the new gods.
But Ah Chen burned all the contracts and brands in public, overturning the rules his father had established throughout his life.
But when he truly sat at the top of power, he found that the new young actors had begun to look at him the same way they looked at his father.
Concept: People will gradually become addicted to desire itself while being desired.