The Seventh Exposure: Mountain and Sea Shadow Collection

Lin Shen, a down-and-out photographer, discovers a bronze shutter button engraved with Taotie patterns in the darkroom. After pressing the shutter button for the seventh time, a female ghost in a Republican cheongsam emerges from the developer, breaking the barrier between reality and the "shadow ruins". The Shadow Ruins were transformed into the remains of the ancient water god Gonggong after he crashed into Mount Buzhou. Jiu Kuisi tried to use the developer to refine the resentful soul of the bronze tripod and resurrect Gonggong. Lin Shen teamed up with Qin Zimo, the Forbidden City restorer, to use the seventh exposure of the camera to pull out the ghost body of the Shadow Ruins, repair the cracks with gold-stitched craftsmanship, and travel through the secret places of national trends such as Suzhou embroidery cheongsam and Dunhuang murals. When Zhao Wuji, the leader of Jiu Kui Si Hall, reassembles the fragments of the Zi Long Cauldron, Lin Shen must make a decision with the last shutter: Should he become a sacrifice to the Shadow Ruins, or should he let the spirit of the mountains and seas return to the world? The lens is always focused on not only light and shadow, but also obsession and redemption buried by time.