In the hot weather of Lin'an City, there is a shadow that has not dissipated for twenty years.
Shen Yan guarded the ancestral small medical clinic, twisting the silver needle between her fingertips, and twisting the family's secret past - the small bronze cauldron in the ancestral hall always gave off a strange light at midnight, and the faint snake shadow mark on her grandfather's wrist before he died was a knot in her heart that she could not untie.
Xie Zhaoran stood at the top of a Jiangnan aristocratic family, paved with silk and satin, and wrapped in jade and silk, but he was awakened by the same nightmare every night: there were vague figures in the clay pots of the abandoned medicine shop, and before his death, his father pointed in the direction of the western suburbs and could only say the word "gu".
When the cinnabar with bloody powder flows into Lin'an, and when "puppet"-like strange diseases appear one after another, the two supposedly parallel trajectories suddenly intersect. He knocked on the door of the medical clinic with half a jade pendant engraved with the word "Thank you". She looked at the totems on the pages of his book that were similar to the tripod pattern, and suddenly understood: those past events deliberately buried by the family, and those pottery pots sleeping under the weeds, had long been woven into a network in the dark.
The bronze tripod can ward off evil spirits, but not the greed of the human heart; the silver bracelet can ward off poisonous insects, but cannot ward off the entanglement of fate. When Miao Jiang's totem appears in the moonlight, and when the old covenant of marriage is dug out of the dust, should they fight independently across family grudges, or should they hold on to the clues in each other's hands -
Let's tear apart the bloody truth that was piled up with living souls, puppet threads, and immortal dreams?
"Do you believe in voodoo or the human heart?"
"I only believe that the person who untied the bell must have seen the blood when tying the bell."
In a conspiracy that spanned twenty years, two people carrying family secrets got closer and closer step by step in the scent of medicine in the medical clinic and the jade shadow of the aristocratic family.
Purpose: Use love as a blade to break through the confusion of witchcraft that is distorted by power and desire.
