Song Wei Chen jolts awake in the Sleep Realm—a half-dream limbo where human feelings don’t die when bodies do—and learns she’s trapped on borrowed time. A failed “8-hertz” trance is slipping, and if it breaks, she never wakes again. Mo Ting Feng, the cold enforcer who keeps the Sleep Realm in order, gives her one way out: help hunt the luan po—obsession-rotted remnants that become predatory horrors.
Pulled into a chain of seven cases tied to the seven emotions, Song Wei Chen has to read the “fingerprints” that grief, rage, and longing leave behind and cut each grudge at its source before it metastasizes. But the cases aren’t random—they interlock like a mechanism, and every solved scene tightens the net around her and Mo Ting Feng. As the trap escalates from isolated hauntings to a coordinated slaughter, even Mo Ting Feng’s enforced detachment becomes a liability: one emotional spike can burn him alive. Expect eerie casework, razor-edged partnership tension, and supernatural stakes where every emotion can kill.
