A series of murders occurred in Jiuxian County, Jiangnan. The deceased were all placed in ancient ritual poses, with a white paper lamp left beside them, with the names of those who disappeared during the "Shipwreck Festival" twenty years ago written on the lamp.
Ancient book restorer Shen Zhaoye returned to his hometown to repair the county chronicle, and found that a page that had been artificially erased in the old chronicle was related to the death of his father that year. Suspended criminal police officer Liang Xun came to investigate a new case. He initially suspected that Shen Zhaoye was hiding the truth, but he discovered at the crime scenes that what he was looking for was not the murderer, but his own lost past.
Ancestral halls, theater stages, genealogies, ancient wells, and old shipwreck cases surfaced one by one. The so-called ghosts and gods seeking lives are nothing more than living people using folk customs to cover up their sins. Of the seven children who were sent to the sacrificial boat twenty years ago, who survived? Who has been hiding in the blanks of the county annals?
There are lights in the old county, which illuminate the night silently.
They want to fish the truth out of the water before everyone falls silent.
Purpose: The truth should not be buried by power and fear. Those who survive also have the right to choose their lives again.