**Some secrets should stay buried. Others, you don't even want to count.**
In 2001, Zhang Tianye was running a small shop, killing time with the ancient, enigmatic practice of ***Liu Yao***—the Six-Line Oracle. His world was quiet, predictable. Until Shang Zhiyu walked in. Her beauty was arresting, but it was the millennium-old tortoise shell on his counter, its surface a map of cryptic cracks, that truly held her gaze.
Then, she vanished without a trace.
A single, cryptic letter pulls Zhang into a midnight rendezvous, yanking him from his mundane existence into a shadow world of ancient, grudge-laden curses, bone-deep chills, and a terrifying folklore legend: ***The Soul-Gathering Casket***. This is no mere relic; it's a ritual vessel designed for a purpose far more sinister than housing the dead.
As the cast hexagrams shift from curious to undeniably ominous, Zhang realizes a grim truth. He's not just searching for a lost love. He's stepping into a meticulously laid trap—a snare set by forces that operate in the cold, silent spaces between this world and the next.