Chen Zhibai, a scholar from Jiangnan, was killed by robbers and turned into a zombie. Because of his deep obsession, he insisted on going to Chang'an to complete the last imperial examination in his life. He had to hide the truth about his transformation into a corpse, sneak into the examination room with the help of a group of masked gods, monsters and ghosts, and cause a series of absurd events, and finally discovered that the robber who killed him was actually related to examination fraud.
