College student Chen Yuan encounters a ghost while livestreaming and is forced to awaken his “Ghost Eye.” With guidance from his unscrupulous mentor, Wei Jun, he establishes the “Keep Your Distance from the Living” agency. From painted-skin specters and life-for-years contracts to murderous fiends, tangled schemes of human nature, twin mother-and-child fiends, and fake-immortal experiments, he delves into the city’s eerie shadows, witnesses a drought demon bringing disaster, and survives having his very existence erased. At last, amid contests between earthly immortals and an innate demonic tribulation, he finds his own “Dao.” This is a modern urban tale of the strange, chronicling a witness struggling, making choices, and growing amid the cracks of the supernatural world.
