During the Yongning period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, demons and ghosts appeared frequently, and the imperial court set up a "Relic Collecting Department" to secretly take care of it. The young boy Shen Mo, who was originally the youngest sentencing officer in the Ministry of Punishment, was framed for a family extermination case. After escaping from death, he was assigned to be a small clerk in the Collecting Relics Department. The people taken in here are all weirdos who are not tolerated in the world: there is a swordsman who is silent but can understand the language of beasts, a seasoned man who seems crazy but can dream of ghosts, and a woman in red who always sheds tears at the moon on full moon nights.
The things they manage are also strange: the female ghost who cries every night in the dry well in the east of the city is actually the mother who died in childbirth and cannot let go of the orphan; the ginseng dug out in the west mountain has become a spirit, and she just wants to repay her kindness to the medicine farmer who saved it; a certain adult's house is restless, and the source is just a trampled ant that came to collect debts...
Silence originally thought this was an exile, but here she saw a human heart that was purer than the officialdom. Until he discovered that the real culprit who framed him and caused the death of his family was actually involved in a conspiracy to resurrect an "ancient demon god" that attempted to subvert the government and the opposition.
This time, Silence is no longer alone. Behind him stood those partners who were once regarded as "others" by the world.
