The Iron Womb

After witnessing her son executed in the Nian Gengyao purge of 1726, Shen Qiongzhi awakens in 1724 with memories of the coming holocaust. Armed with cold precision, she manipulates the Qing legal machinery to erase her son's identity, eliminating anyone who knows of him. Her protective love mutates into a clockwork cage, where maternal warmth is replaced by the chilling rhythm of gears, ultimately forging a perfect, living tomb sealed by totalitarian order.