Lu Xiaochuan is an office worker dogged by bad luck. By chance, he obtains a fragment of the ancient artifact known as the Judge's Brush, which lets him see the weaknesses of ghosts and monsters, though he often gets it wrong. Pressured into working for Su Jiuli, the sharp-tongued owner of a mysterious antique shop, he takes on all kinds of supernatural jobs: delivering face masks to the Bone Spirit, finding fake tears for a wailing ghost, and even applying talismans to seal a Han dynasty female corpse... But behind these seemingly absurd tasks lies the truth of the “Rampaging Impermanence Incident” from twenty years ago, as well as Su Jiuli's true identity: the first Meng Po, who fled the Underworld.
