Ming Xueling, a student at the Reaper Academy, is frustrated that she keeps running overtime on every mock reaper exam because she tries to fulfill the deceased's wishes. Just as she's despairing over never graduating, a rebellion in the underworld and the casualties of war in the human realm leave the underworld severely short-staffed. Senior Reaper Academy students like the heroine are naturally appointed as acting reapers. While busy collecting souls, they also have to fight evil spirits, fallen angels, and creatures from hell. Along the way, Ming Xueling shares many moving stories with the dead. She also gets caught up in a revolution in the underworld...
