When Jiang Shisan, a seventeen-year-old apprentice cursed with a fate that invites calamity, lost the master who had raised him, he was left with only three things: a Taoist temple that leaked like a waterfall, a copper-coin sword that melted at the first sign of evil, and a will written in blood: "Do not open the metal cabinet in the northeast corner before you turn eighteen."
With the temple cut off from both power and food, Jiang Shisan had no choice but to put his credentials to use. Armed with A Guide to Ghostbusting for Everyday Folks, he set up shop:
▶️ He used a bagua mirror to create a "reflected sha" puddle trap while dodging city inspectors.
▶️ While applying makeup to a corpse at a funeral home, he accidentally triggered a corpse mutation by saying "thank you" at the wrong moment.
▶️ He helped an influencer livestream a séance, but stuck a talisman over the camera lens, letting a million viewers witness a real ghost-face effect.
Then, one night, he found a copper coin beneath a locust tree. By morning, bloody characters had appeared in his palm: a marriage contract to a ghost bride from a century ago, with his life as the betrothal gift.
And that wasn't the only mess his master had left behind:
⚠️ On a stormy night, a messenger from the underworld slipped a yellow-paper debt notice through the door: "Liu the Half-Immortal owes 300 soul-summoning banners."
⚠️ The funeral parlor owner warned that the black-dog blood on the market was mixed with chicken blood, while the evil spirit in the Wang family mansion would only drink the real stuff.
⚠️ The holes in the temple roof formed the Big Dipper, counting down to the night of his eighteenth birthday, when all seven stars would align...
It's good-looking, has lots of laughs, and the plot is also very compact.