Li Yuxiao and Zhao Cunming are ordinary constables at the Longyuan County Yamen. They had hoped to get by with a quiet, uneventful life, but then a fox demon appeared in Quagua Village and attacked people. The county magistrate ordered the two of them to investigate. As they painstakingly sift through the clues, the truth behind the bizarre and uncanny case gradually comes to light.
The two men make a name for themselves, but can only move from one baffling case to the next. They can never return to their peaceful lives of old.
