The Yin-Yang Pawnshop in the Mortal Realm

In the twelfth year of the Republic, Shen Moyan returns from studying abroad and is forced to inherit his family's pawnshop, the Jiwu Pawnshop. He discovers that by day it accepts valuables and good fortune from the living as collateral, while at night it helps ghosts and monsters fulfill their wishes. When he opens the Records of Crossing the Yin, a book documenting contracts between yin and yang, he is drawn into a conflict between the two realms that has lasted for three centuries.

Guided by Du Xinglan, an Yin-Yang Master who is neither wholly righteous nor wholly wicked, Shen Moyan gradually masters the pawnshop's secret arts, only to discover that he has long been caught up in the scheme: he pawned away twenty years of his life long ago. As the red-clad vengeful spirit Su Qingyue, the zombie general Qin Wushe, and other eerie beings appear one after another, a shocking conspiracy that threatens the balance between yin and yang comes to light. And everything is tied to the thousand-year-old Corpse King sealed beneath the pawnshop…