
Set against the opulent yet turbulent backdrop of the Ming Dynasty, this film unfolds like a dark symphony of desire, power, and destiny. At its heart is a mysterious cult leader, a being of shifting gender, suspended between the realms of the divine and the demonic. To sustain his immortality and unearthly powers, he performs a forbidden ritual: deflowering virgins to absorb their life force and nourish a soul slowly rotting from the weight of time.
For years, he has hidden in plain sight within the household of the esteemed physician Dr. Yue, a silent shadow awaiting the right moment. That moment arrives with Bao, the doctor’s daughter, a young woman on the cusp of womanhood, radiant in her purity, yet unknowingly harboring a power far greater than innocence.
Etched across Bao’s body are strange, invisible tattoos, unseen by the naked eye, revealed only in dreams and moments touched by the sacred. Each pattern whispers of ancient codes, remnants of a forgotten wisdom that may hold the key to something far beyond understanding. Her connection to Chao Chuen, a destitute scholar desperately seeking a cure for his ailing mother, pulls the story into deeper, more fateful waters.
Bao’s body art is more than mere ornament; it may well be the map to a long-lost remedy, the very salvation Chuen has been searching for. But when the dark hunger of a supernatural being collides with the innocence of love and the purity of filial devotion, who will emerge victorious in this seductive battle between lust and light?