On the second day of their marriage, Ye Xunyu, wife of General Yang Dan, who guards the nation, died on the battlefield. By chance, he learned of a way to bring her back to life. In the Kingdom of Nanjing, there is a flower called the hibiscus, which blooms at dawn and withers at dusk. In the west of the city stands a courtyard called the Dustbound Garden, where the flower keeper, Jin Niang, tends to spirits. Each flower holds a soul of the dead: when it blooms, the soul returns; when it falls, the soul departs. To resurrect his wife, Yang Dan agreed to all of Jin Niang's demands. But as they spent day after day together, he discovered that Jin Niang was remarkably like the late Ye Xunyu...
