Shanghai Beach Strange Stories

In Shanghai in the 1930s, Zhou Muyun, a young reporter from the Shanghai News Agency, accidentally discovered a blood-stained interview notebook while sorting out the belongings of the deceased editor-in-chief Chen Bo. His name was clearly written on the last page of the letter, and the "Yong'an Pawn Shop" mark on the back cover dragged him into a strange whirlpool from which he could not escape. From the dancer in a red dress who never ends her curtain at Paramount, to the abnormal and strange ghost that moves at midnight in the specimen room of the French Concession Hospital, to the 1933 ghost ship ticket that demanded death at Shiliupu Pier, and the seven weird self-mirrors in the mirror of Xiafei Road Apartment, seven bizarre and unsolved cases were staged one after another. Every time Zhou Muyun pursues, he steps into a destiny that has already been written. As the truth was revealed layer by layer, he was shocked to realize that he was already on the verge of death when he was seven years old. His current life was a fantasy dream that his father bought from the Yin and Yang Pawn Shop by pawning his seventy years of Yang life and the fear of his soul. And he is the seventh gatekeeper who maintains the balance of yin and yang. His persistent pursuit of the truth is just a necessary ritual to complete the contract. The work is set on the beach in the Republic of China, and combines Chinese folk customs and time-space reincarnation narratives. In a tight closed loop of fate, it outlines the ultimate Chinese psychological horror, and also expresses the cage of obsession and the weight of father's love.