"Nightmare Inn" tells the story of the night before the imperial examination results were released. More than thirty candidates stayed at the inn. They all dreamed that they were famous in the strange fragrance. Only Shen Qingyuan, a talented man from the south of the Yangtze River, dreamed of high school alone. The results were released the next day, and it was like a dream - he was the only one out of all the candidates to win the exam, and he was a high school student. The mysterious shopkeeper laughed and said that incense can "see into people's hearts." Lin Shumo, a failed imperial examination candidate, noticed something strange and determined to explore this inn that could weave precognitive dreams. Unknown to him, he had stepped into a secret bureau of imperial examinations that lasted for hundreds of years.
