Deep in the mist of the Bloody Valley, the gears of the Sunken Palace rotate once every 25 years, using the blood of the Night Watch to maintain the dual worlds of reality and the mirror. In 1993, a premature birth that violated the rules of the festival broke the cycle of reincarnation - twin girls Ruoya and Lin Yue arrived with contradictory sophora flower marks: Ruoya had a temporary five-petal sticker on the back of her neck, while Lin Yue was born with a three-petal birthmark. The pair of sisters, judged as "wrong" by the Shen Palace mirror system, embarked on a journey through time and space to pursue the murderer, guided by the morning dew and silver ring left by their mother.
Ten years later, Ruoya returned to the paradox-filled Shen Palace ruins in order to find her missing sister in the mirror world. As the inscriptions on the Sophora Flower Rings of the seven skeletons of Holy Trinity College were revealed one by one, the mirror image tampering of the Shen Palace murals was gradually exposed: in 1912, the night watchman Lawrence created a counterclockwise mirror image to resurrect his lover. Each sacrifice is a fragment of the projection of reality and the mirror world. Sylvia's cross, Dorian's silver eyepatch, and Campbell's mask of the dead, behind these items spanning hundreds of years, lies the same truth: all bloodline marks are lies in the mirror, and only the premature morning dew that the mother exchanged for her life is the key to breaking the "3+5=7" ritual formula.
When Ruoya caught her sister's soul cocoon at the bell tower of the underworld, the three light blue petals revealed where the cocoon peeled off merged with the morning dew into an eight-petaled sophora flower that defied all formulas. The gears of the Sinking Palace collapsed while turning counterclockwise. Campbell, the agent of the dead in the mirror world, lost his right eye, but the twin girls saw the cruelest truth clearly: Ruoya was a replica made by the mirror in 1987, and Lin Yue was the "mirror observer" who carried the original three-petal mark.
The old locust trees in the Bloody Valley sprouted silver-white new buds before dawn, and the fragrance of eight-petal locust flowers blew away the centuries-old fog. Ruoya held the specimen bottle left by her mother and looked at the eight-petal mark flashing on the back of her sister's neck. She finally understood that blood was never the lubricant of gears, but the sharp ax that split the mirror image. When the morning dew extinguishes the last trace of darkness in Shen Palace, a new story begins amidst the flying locust flowers - there is no festival, no reincarnation, only two girls who break free from the mirror image, and use the cracks carved by their mother's soul to write their own, curse-free future at the junction of reality and the mirror.
This is a blood puzzle that spans a hundred years, a miracle of life that breaks the laws of mathematics, and is a hymn composed of morning dew and locust flowers that resists the reincarnation of time. When the eight-petaled locust flower blooms in reality and in the mirror at the same time, all the souls swallowed by Shen Palace finally rest in peace, and the descendants of the Night Watch will finally understand: the real power of blood is never in the rotation of gears, but in every moment when they choose to break the rules.
Intention: I just want to write a suspenseful and brain-burning drama.