Duhungou

The day when hell opens. The sender is his mother, who has been missing for twenty years. There were only six words in the letter: Don't come back. Don't ask either. Shen Du came anyway. From Beijing we arrived at this village called Wudugou in the mountains of western Hunan. On the first day he entered the village, he noticed three things were wrong. First, everyone in the village knows him and calls him "the third son of the Shen family". Second, there is no "boss" and "second child" in this village - either they are dead or they don't exist. No one remembers that these two people existed. Third, there is a bronze mirror in the ancestral house of the Shen family, covered with black cloth. There are more people in the mirror than outside. Wudugou hides a rule that has lasted for three hundred years. The ancestors of the Shen family signed a contract with an unknown entity in the mountains - the Shen family would send one living person every twelve years. The person who is sent away will disappear from everyone's memory. Photos are exposed, writing fades, and relatives wake up unable to remember having the child. Three hundred years and more than twenty people, the only thing that remembers them is the bronze mirror. The person in the bronze mirror is walking out. The Shen family, forgotten by the world, built another Wudu ditch on the other side of the mirror. Three hundred years of loneliness are enough to turn the victim into something else. What they were planning was not revenge—it was replacement. Let the living person go into the mirror and let yourself come back. And the thing in that mountain—the being that doesn't need a name—has collected more than twenty lives in the past three hundred years, and it's not for enshrinement. It is learning. Learn how to be a "person".