The Hunger Below

In the shadow of Emperor Qianlong's literary inquisition, a young magistrate enters a famine-stricken slum to investigate a series of grisly murders. As he uncovers a cannibalistic cult born from starvation, he confronts an abyss of collective moral decay. Solving the crime shatters his faith in justice, revealing that the true horror is not a monster, but the human soul stripped bare.