Three hundred years after the Great Recession, under the knife of antique restorer Su Jinchen, only broken antiquities were reborn. The ancestral Yin-Yang Mirror is hidden in the sleeve. When the mirror light circulates, it can not only illuminate the afterimages of the objects in the past, but also tear open the cracks in parallel time and space. An ordinary repair of an ancient mirror accidentally awakened the dormant resentment in the mirror, and involved him in the "Thousand Soul Sacrifice" mystery spanning three generations - in the early years of the Great Qi, Wu Zhu refined the soul-suppressing cauldron in order to seek immortality, and hundreds of resentful spirits turned into a curse. The cursed person transformed into a soulless shadow puppet every time he was pregnant, repeating the fate of death under the moonlight.
The sound of wooden fish in the ancient temple of Tang Yun hides the mystery of the wooden talisman. The afterimage of the fire talisman is reflected behind the carved windows of the Song Dynasty's deep house. The secret words of the water talisman float in the sound of gongs and drums in the theater. The five-element secret talisman is scattered in the folds of time and space, becoming the only key to crack the curse. He stepped on the moss on the bluestone slabs, touched the cracks in the mottled palace walls, and wandered on the edge of folk taboos: red lanterns lead the way, you must avoid three ways, you must not look at each other when a shadow puppet show starts, and you must avoid bloodshed when the soul-suppressing cauldron appears in the world. The memory fragments of dual time and space are intertwined in the mysterious mirror. The ambition of Wu Zhu in the past life, the lamentation of the puppet in this life, and the obsession of the puzzle solver in the next life, piece together the puzzle of human nature that spans a hundred years.
When the afterimage in the mirror overlapped with reality, and when the secret of the sacrifice was connected with the family's past, Su Jinchen realized that he was already the key to this fateful reincarnation. Will he follow the path of the curse and become a new sacrifice, or will he gather the power of the five elements to break the shackles of three hundred years? The mysterious mirror can illuminate the yin and yang, but it cannot illuminate the depths of the human heart. Only with the ingenuity of restoring ancient artifacts and splicing the truth in the fog can the imprisoned soul see the light of day again.