Lin Mo is an ordinary student at a top city high school, consistently ranked dead last in his grade. He keeps a low profile and barely registers to anyone.
No one knows that this seemingly unremarkable boy has another identity: an agent of the living world.
He specializes in dealing with lonely ghosts stranded among the living, helping them fulfill their unfinished wishes and sending them peacefully on their way. Whether it’s a former class monitor who has waited for seventy-three years, a senile old man who can’t let go of his granddaughter, or a baby who died too young and wants to see its mother one more time, sooner or later they all knock on the old wooden door marked “Lin’s Incense and Candles,” late at night.
Lin Mo’s principles are simple: if someone treats him well, he treats them well; if someone makes his life difficult, he pays them back a hundredfold.
By day, he’s a poor student singled out and criticized by the head of discipline. By night, he’s the ghosts’ last refuge. He has sent off one soul after another, each burdened by deep regrets, and collected paper cranes one by one: thank-you gifts from everyone who has moved on.
Until one day, he takes on a disciple.
Six-year-old Xiao Yu was born able to see ghosts. Following Lin Mo, she learns to help people, face life and death, and stay true to herself in a world where she is “called a monster.”
Meanwhile, the truth from three hundred years ago gradually comes to light: the vengeful spirit he released with his own hands, the seal that trapped his master for a lifetime, the “younger brother” waiting in the shadows...
Lin Mo discovers that everyone he has sent on their way has, in some unseen way, guided him toward an answer...
Who is he, really?
