Indescribable Place

Chen Shuo, a fresh graduate, joined the "Chinese Abnormal Folklore Research and Preservation Department" (referred to as the "Polling Department"). He thought he was entering a nursing home, but found that his colleagues used a compass to determine the direction of a "mosaic" and used the "Book of Rites" to "reason" for a crying ceramic doll. He gradually understood that what he was dealing with here was not ghosts, but the spirits of old folk customs that were "out of order" due to modern people's forgetfulness. His daily work is to use traditional rules (such as time, directions, sacrificial rituals) to appease, guide or seal them to return them to "order". Until he took over a serial nightmare incident and traced a script of "The King in Yellow" performed with shadow puppets, the "weirdness" of the East and the West merged for the first time. He discovered that the "Xuheng" identity passed down from generation to generation in his family might be the key to maintaining the balance between rules and chaos in this land.