Zhang Xingchen wakes up in a shabby rented room and receives notice that he has been rejected from his twentieth job interview. Dejected, he walks through the rainy city streets, thinking back on the hardships of growing up in an orphanage.
- He is struck by a truck while trying to save a little girl who runs into the road. His blood stains the zodiac jade pendant passed down in his family, and it emits twelve beams of light.
- At the hospital, Zhang Xingchen is declared dead, only to miraculously come back to life. He discovers that the world has changed: he can see spiritual light invisible to ordinary people.
- The mysterious old man Long Ye appears in his hospital room and hints that Zhang Xingchen has been chosen by the twelve zodiac signs, but refuses to reveal anything more.
