★ Mystery novella
Xue Er, a young and beautiful nurse, is convinced that her boyfriend, Ken, is cheating on her. Their seven-year relationship is on the verge of collapse amid suspicion.
More terrifying still, in this freezing winter, she hears raspy cicada cries outside her window for six nights in a row, one after another, as if vengeful ghosts were calling for her life.
On her seventh sleepless night, she finally seeks help from the renowned psychiatrist Qiu Liheng.
But she never expected that this hypnotic treatment would become the gateway to uncovering bloody sins spanning three lifetimes.
A swordswoman from the Tang dynasty, the daughter of a disgraced official from the Qing dynasty, a shamanic doctor from the Republic of China... Every entanglement of love ended in bloodshed.
Just as she begins to believe that she herself is the source of every tragedy in this cycle of reincarnation, she suddenly realizes: the cicada cries never came from outside her window.
The truth is sneering at her.
Theme: Good and evil are repaid in the end.
