The protagonist, Jiang Weiguo, is a post-70s office worker, a 46-year-old middle-aged man still grinding away at his job. He has spent his whole life being cautious and dutiful, an honest, ordinary man. By a twist of fate, his soul transmigrates to a rural village in Northeast China in 1961, taking over the body of a bachelor of the same age and name who died after getting so worked up spying on a widow bathing that he fell off a wall. An awkward transmigration, and with a record full of misdeeds, he is punished by being sent to keep watch and sound the night watch. In this village at the foot of the mountains, with bandits still lurking and all kinds of wild beasts roaming the hills, how is he supposed to cope? He hopes for a golden finger to rescue him from his miserable life, but instead he is forcibly bound to a dual-cultivation cultivation-task System from the Hehuan Sect. Only, in an age without gods, does that mean his missions are to slay monsters? Or to practice dual cultivation?
