Diary of an Arrogant Taoist Heiress

[One Female Lead] + [Slice of Life] + [Subverting Expectations] + [Taoist Arts]

China Has Ghosts

China has had ghosts since ancient times, and people have always kept watch through the night.

Ever since the first soul-suppressing sigil was carved onto a Shang dynasty tortoise shell, the night in this land has never been empty. Resentment takes shape, obsessions wander, and those who died unjustly haunt the waterside. Yet there is always a group of people hidden away in famous mountains and great rivers, using thunder arts to frighten off evil spirits, talismans to suppress malign forces, and ritual ceremonies to lay the dead to rest.

They are the night watchmen of the worlds of yin and yang.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, Mount Longhu, Mount Mao, and Gezao Mountain forged the “Three Mountains Alliance,” joining ancient legalist families to defend humanity. For a thousand years, the Taoist lineages have never been broken. Even today, they secretly work with the authorities to handle “strange incidents” that ordinary methods cannot resolve. The Dao Pivot Bureau is the modern executor of this system. It appears on no public records, but every city has one of its stewards.

The Bai family's ancestral home in the northern suburbs of the capital has stood for three hundred years. A family of thunder-art practitioners, a core member of the Three Mountains Alliance, with sixteen generations of tradition and forty-seven ancestral tablets for those who died unnatural deaths. This family has its pride, and its burdens.

Bai Xiyue, seventeen, the Bai family's legitimate daughter.

A three-time champion of the capital's beauty rankings, with silver hair, red eyes, and a cowlick that always sticks up. She is the capital's number one beauty, and its number one bratty girl. She never holds back when she speaks, loves JK fashion and white stockings, can skip breakfast for a month to afford a piece of makeup, and can face a vengeful ghost without batting an eye.

The story begins when she is “exiled” to Qionghai for using thunder arts to strike down a rich young master who was harassing a village girl. Her bank card is confiscated, leaving her with a balance of 120 yuan. This is her exile diary, a diary that is both tearjerking and hilarious.