As a coffin streaked with peeling red lacquer slowly opens on the night of a ghost marriage, what spills from its depths is not the rotten aura of the dead, but nine foxfires capable of burning away the cycle of reincarnation. The gears of fate have long since locked into place again, turned by the blood and vows of a past life.
Mo Xiaofan enters the ancestral hall beneath flickering candlelight. The night before his twentieth birthday marks the end of his life’s countdown. His grandfather, Mo Laojiu, presses a scarred hand against his shoulder, like a talisman sleeping for a thousand years awakening. He must marry a “female ghost” to reclaim his incomplete destiny. But who could have guessed that the coffin sealed for a century holds not a ghost, but an obsession spanning the realms of immortals and demons? Bai Li, the nine-tailed fox, opens her eyes beneath the blood moon and sneers, “Husband, we meet again.”
Her return tears open sealed memories and draws hunters out of the shadows. Rebel forces from the demon realm, orthodox sects, mysterious organizations... Their competing powers weave together like a web, pushing two souls who should never have met again into the heart of a storm. She was once his wife, but now she embodies taboo and calamity. He was once a god, but in this life he is merely a mortal clinging to life.
If love is a tribulation, then they are doomed to suffer through countless calamities.
