A red wedding dress unearthed from a ghost marriage tomb, the stitching is brand new, and the collar still retains the warmth of a living person.
Two of the missing persons were wearing red clothes and died in a deserted grave; the third missing person is still on the list. Wen Sheng, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Folklore, was invited to identify the wedding dress, so he met Ji Ran who was burning paper in the cemetery.
Ji Ran could see the obsession left behind by the deceased, but he never wanted to tell the whole story. Wen Sheng only verified the evidence and refused to let any nonsense bypass the verification. One passage, one research. From using each other to entrusting each other, along with the lost acupuncture techniques, erased identities and two old conflicts, they traced a group of people who transferred debts to living people in the name of etiquette and customs.
Every time a case is solved, the red sedan gets closer to them.
What it takes away is never just life, but a person's "future". This time, they want to give back the future that was taken away from them, and they also want to walk into their own future side by side.
Purpose: People should not take on debt for stereotypes, nor should they hand over the future for others; true intimacy means jointly seeking verification and joint responsibility in the unknown, and always retaining choices for each other.