While working in the fields, Zhang Qiang and Li Xiu follow a strangely behaving weasel into an abandoned mansion in the mountains. Inside, Zhang Qiang accidentally steps on a small mound, uncovering a rosewood box containing an ancient bronze mirror. The mirror is eerie—its surface is covered in green rust and blood-red streaks, while its back bears a grotesque nuo (exorcism) mask design, exuding an unsettling aura. Despite warnings from villagers like Old Man Chen and Granny Zhang about the mansion’s curse and the mirror’s dark nature, Zhang Qiang takes it home, hoping to sell it for profit. From then on, a series of bizarre events unfold: midnight knocks with no one there, the weasel’s repeated eerie appearances, livestock dying mysteriously, and ghostly wails echoing from the village at night. Most horrifyingly, no matter where Zhang Qiang discards the mirror—whether in a river, the wilderness, or deep in the mountains—it always returns, sometimes even reappearing on village wall