Deep in the mountains of western Hunan, Baihe Village. The bone lamp that has been passed down for three generations under the old locust tree is said to be able to illuminate the secrets that cannot be hidden in the hearts of living people. Criminal profiler Lin Qingci received the news of her grandmother's death and returned to her hometown after fifteen years of absence. On the night of the wake, she found an ancient bone lamp among her grandmother's belongings, with the wick facing down - according to the village elders, this was not the way to place it. There were traces of mud between fingernails, half of the old diary that had been torn out, and the inexplicable appearance of paper figures on the old locust tree. Everything seemed amiss. She began to trace the cause of her grandmother's death, and followed the clues and found that: in the past thirty years, several women in the village had died abnormally, and the times overlapped surprisingly; her mother's belongings, which were rumored to have passed away twenty years ago, had been locked in her grandmother's cabinet. An unsent letter read - If I don't leave, I will be the next to die. And Shen Ye, the county detective who took the initiative to help her investigate the case, did not seem to have a simple purpose in entering the village. He was pursuing an old case that had been sealed for twenty years. At the end of the file, the person pointed to happened to be Lin Qingci's mother. A lamp, two generations, and a fog that has not cleared up for thirty years. Where the lights flicker, the truth is darker than the night.
Concept: In a mountain village shrouded in old customs, three generations of women use different methods to find the truth and a way out - the grandmother uses silence to protect secrets, the mother uses escape to fight for freedom, and the daughter uses professional skills to uncover the fog. What really traps people is never ghosts and gods, but stereotypes and collective silence passed down from generation to generation. This book is about: women's growth from being stared at to actively gazing, from silence to the awakening of speaking out, from confusion to persistence of the truth.