Baptism of Lies

Shanghai, 1922. After the humiliating public divorce orchestrated by gangster kingpin Huang Jinrong, his discarded wife Lin Guisheng vanishes from the underworld. Six months later, a mysterious “Church of the Celestial Return” emerges in the French Concession, drawing desperate souls with promises of transcendence. Unbeknownst to its flock, the sect is Huang’s ultimate power play, and its final rite is mass suicide. Lin Guisheng, feigning a broken spirit, infiltrates as the only undercover agent, navigating a labyrinth where every truth is a trap. A story of psychological coldness, where lies are oxygen and honesty is a bullet to the brain.