Ye Gui, a young Taoist priestess disguised as a man, descends from the mountain to gain experience and happens upon Xiao Bai, a cold and aloof general haunted by an evil spirit.
By chance, she discovers clues at the Xiao residence about the massacre that wiped out the Ye family years ago.
To save the Xiao family and uncover the mastermind behind the Ye family’s destruction, the two set out on a quest to hunt down the culprit.
After surviving death time and again, they go from finding each other irritating to gradually falling for one another.
But when a mad princess gets involved, their path to love is anything but smooth.
A ghost child whose father brutally flayed him alive; a psychologically scarred courtesan who was given away like a plaything; a golden Buddha ghost obsessed with attaining Buddhahood... Behind the frequent supernatural incidents, is someone responsible, or are they all accidents?
Faced with one obstacle after another, can the two ultimately be together? See how the young Taoist priestess Ye Gui escapes danger and wins the heart of the cold, aloof general!