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An "IOU" spanned forty years and led to three families. What I want is not money, but reason; what I want is not debt repayment, but the unavoidable tone in my life. The story is about "calculation", calculating the heavens and the earth and calculating people's hearts. In the end, the only thing that can't be calculated accurately is one's own account.

A county-level theater troupe on the verge of disbanding went deep into an isolated village for a generous reward. Their mission is to rehearse an ancient local ritual that has been lost for a long time - night drama. The rules are strict: the show opens at midnight, and actors must wear special heavy masks to perform for a "special audience." However, when the gongs and drums sounded for the first time in the dead of midnight, changes quietly occurred. The mask seemed to have come to life and began to erode the wearer's sanity and memory. The empty stage was gradually filled with silent and cold "gazing". The villagers kept secrets and only repeated the ancient warning: "As soon as the gongs start, the play must be finished." The troupe members found themselves unable to leave. This scene is no longer a performance, but an unstoppable dark ritual in which humans and non-humans coexist. They no longer perform for the audience, but themselves become the most important sacrifices in the ceremony. When the final curtain is about to fall, who can tell whether it is an actor on stage or a ghost awakened by a mask and lingering for hundreds of years? The drama has begun and no one can escape.

Beneath the cities we are familiar with lurk another set of rules. When night falls, corners that cannot be illuminated by neon lights begin to wake up. The strange stories you hear are not groundless; the strange things you accidentally glimpse are not illusions. They breed in the cracks of steel and concrete and spread in the whispers of urban crowds - "rules". These rules are the forbidden entrance to the dark world.

Is home a harbor or a prison? For the education of their daughter Cheng Xiaoyu, Cheng Wei and Su Ting gritted their teeth and bought a house in a school district with a strange price. After moving in, 6-year-old Xiaoyu began to draw a boy in a blue school uniform and called him "brother." At first, the couple thought it was just their child's imaginary friend, until- There was a knocking sound in the wall late at night, the rhythm was like someone answering their call There was a strange boy in the family photo, and everyone said, "He was already there." Xiaoyu disappeared in the middle of the night. The surveillance camera captured her walking towards the wall of the master bedroom, reaching out and saying, "Brother, take me in." When Cheng Wei broke open the wall, he found a children's room hidden inside that had been sealed for 30 years, with "Let me out" written all over it in the homework book. And the most terrifying thing was that Su Ting suddenly burst into tears and said, "I remembered... Xiao Lei was the child we aborted." This house built on the old ancestral hall is "completing" the home in the most gentle way-- It uses memory as bricks and flesh and blood as mud to build the "missing child" into the wall forever...

Protagonist: Lin Tao, a specially appointed expert from the Criminal Investigation Corps of the Provincial Public Security Department. He acquired an "empathic" profiling ability due to an accident - he can capture the strongest emotional fragments of the murderer or the deceased before their death by contacting key evidence. This "talent" is his sharpest weapon and also his heaviest curse. Team: A calm and wise detachment leader, a young policewoman who is proficient in network technology, and a doer with a background in martial arts logistics and trace inspection, together form a detective team full of chemical reactions. Hidden thread: Behind all the bizarre cases, there seems to be a vague reference to a mysterious organization called "Guixu". They believe that "human nature is inherently evil", and like puppets, they take advantage of the weaknesses of human nature to plan "perfect criminal art" one after another.