Zhu An has been trapped since childhood in a strange dream that never ends.
In the dream, red walls enclose a deep courtyard, and mist shrouds a red mansion. On its upper floor stands a lone figure in black, always there: the Seventh Uncle, a man the entire village avoids mentioning at all costs.
The elders say Seventh Uncle died far from home, but the nightmare that repeats every night and the disembodied whispers that appear in the old house keep exposing the lie. While returning home to sort through the old house's belongings, Zhu An digs a black wooden box out from beneath the bed: a fragment of a red-mansion manuscript and an ancient jade pendant, cracked down the middle.
This is no old book of romance. It is a secret manual recording forbidden arts of immortality and deadly Yin-Yang formations.
The moment the fragment is opened, a thousand-year-old scheme stirs back to life. Resentful spirits from the red mansion follow close behind, haunting him like shadows.
Seventh Uncle did not die. Burdened by a century-old debt of Yin owed by the Zhu family, he traveled alone to the world's most perilous places, sealing away the red mansion's grand scheme of immortality with his own body. He remains trapped in the forbidden grounds for eternity.
Bound by blood, he cannot escape his fate. The disaster has fallen upon Zhu An, and there is no turning back.
On one side lies a thousand-year prison, ringed by resentful spirits. On the other, the delusion of immortality, with evil cultivators watching like hawks.
Following the clues Seventh Uncle left behind, he enters the red mansion's secret scheme, buried for a hundred years.
Those who enter the game have no chance of survival.
In this struggle spanning generations, can he break free of fate and escape the red mansion's endless dream?
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Zhu An has been haunted since childhood by strange dreams of a red mansion. After returning home to sort through the old house, he accidentally digs up a secret scroll and a protective jade pendant left behind by Seventh Uncle, revealing the taboo the entire village has guarded for decades.
Seventh Uncle used his own body to seal the thousand-year-old red mansion...
