"When I fainted from hunger on the streets of the Republic of China, I thought it was the blessing of the social beast that had finally arrived - but the school beauty who saved me turned around and poured talisman water on my hand: 'Chen Yanzhou, you can't escape.'"
There was a 21st-century social beast who died suddenly while working overtime, and then there was an unlucky scholar who was poisoned during the Republic of China. Chen Yanzhou's rebirth started with a series of mysterious cases involving "living people singing in midnight theaters".
The "Old K" system in his mind only gives warnings: he will die if he touches the costume, he will die if he hears the crying, he will die if he reveals the secret. Xie Zhaoning beside him, on the surface, is the iceberg academic master of St. John's College, but in fact, he is a master of magic who bears the blood feud of annihilating his family.
When the gangster meets the school beauty of Black Lotus, the two use rules to break the curse and use conspiracy to counter the conspiracy in the stranglehold between warlords, foreigners and Yakouji——
"You want revenge, and I want to survive, why not join forces to turn this Yin and Yang situation upside down?"