"When you read this book, it is also reading you. "Ink in the Sinking Well" is a folkloric suspense meta-novel that tells the story of how fear is encapsulated by narrative, carried by reading, and released by blank spaces.
In the process of investigating the disappearance of his mother, the protagonist Shen Du discovers that he is a "container" - a temporary worker passed down by the family from generation to generation and used to carry fears. He teamed up with Gu Niansheng, who could mend souls, and traveled through clay statues, paper bundles, theater stages and underground libraries, and finally discovered that the real terror is not fear itself, but the state of being "being read".
And the reader—you—is the sixth person in this story.
