The Obsession Clinic

Beneath the bustle of the modern city lies the Obsession Treatment Clinic, open only to those who are “destined” to find it.

The attending physician, Bai Xinzhai, is as radiant as the autumn moon, but in truth she is a thousand-year-old fox spirit. She prescribes no medicine and uses no hypnosis. Instead, she offers one perilous treatment: guiding the mind into the “Abyss of the Heart,” a realm built from inner demons and delusions.

Chen Yuan thought it was just an ordinary psychological clinic, until he became one of its “Abyss Delvers.”

His job is to enter one bizarre mental world after another:

Find a way out of a shopaholic’s endless mall;

Break through the illusions of a gambler’s cycle of wagering;

Uncover evidence in a revenge seeker’s eternal courtroom…

Meanwhile, the clinic’s “supervisor,” the monk Shi Chen, always warns him coldly: “One wrong thought, and karmic flames will consume you!”

Gradually, Chen Yuan discovers that the power Dr. Bai gathers by resolving obsessions is not for her cultivation. It is meant to suppress a tangled love affair that has haunted her for a thousand years.

When the greatest “patient,” Bai herself, is on the verge of losing control of her Abyss of the Heart,

who can descend into that deepest sea of obsession and wake her?

(Keywords: modern Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, mind diving, episodic stories, fox-spirit doctor, Buddhist supervisor, battlefield of inner demons)