"If someone told you that you could live by drinking this bowl of medicine, but the price would be that another dead person would live in your body - would you drink it?"
When forensic doctor Lin Tan was investigating a case of hanging in a secret room, he discovered a neatly dug pit at the feet of the deceased, with black powder remaining at the bottom of the pit - like carbon or some kind of organic crystal. Immediately afterwards, the second and third corpses appeared. They died in the same way and had the same pit at their feet.
All clues point to a long-lost taboo medicine - "Human Soul". According to legend, if a hanged person has great obsessions, his soul will sink into the earth and form this object. Taking medicine can regenerate the spirit, but the price is that the user will gradually be invaded by the memories and fears of the deceased until they can no longer distinguish who they are.
Thirty years ago, a Chinese medicine practitioner named Wen Shiyuan secretly treated seven severely traumatized patients with "human soul", calling them "seeds." Six people had died by hanging, and a seventh had his name scratched off the list.
When Lin Tan traced the identity of the seventh person, she discovered a deeper secret——
She herself was fed a bowl of "human soul" when she was three years old.
Purpose: Real healing is not about forgetting the wounds, but about allowing those who have not been mourned to finally have someone call them home.