Lu Chen, a programmer who was laid off by a major Internet company, went from being a social worker typing code to returning to his hometown by the river overnight, where he encountered the mysterious drowning of his grandfather. At the funeral, red paper river god stickers knocked on the door in the middle of the night, water traps broke the windows and demanded their lives, the rain continued for a long time, and the walls were written with blood. Only then did he realize that the Lu family had been burdened with the death debt of controlling the river settled with the river three hundred years ago, and he was the last heir.
A pair of river god's eyes that can see through the grievances of monsters and the secrets of the river bottom are awakened. The logical thinking that used to type codes has become the most powerful tool for dismantling the water monster's puzzle and breaking the formation to find weapons. In order to survive, and to find out the truth behind the tragic death of his father, Lu Chen was forced to pick up the ancestral river-controlling technique. He followed the old man who retrieved the corpses and traveled through dangerous shoals and treacherous waters. He narrowly escaped death in shady marriages, sieges by water walking corpses, and monster nests at the bottom of the river. Along the way, he searched for eight river-controlling magic weapons scattered across the river.
Old Chen Tou died heroically, with Taoist girls walking side by side, and the pet finless porpoise secretly guarding him. Villages and towns along the river fell one after another. Traitors conspired, evil cultivators seized weapons, and monsters were everywhere. Jiang Kui, the underworld master of Xuanshui who was suppressed by the ancestors of the Lu family three hundred years ago with a human stake of flesh and blood, was breaking through the seal, trying to swallow up the resentment of the river and overthrow the world.
From a down-and-out young man who was forced to shoulder debts to a Zhenhe man who only guarded the safety of a river, Lu Chen, with the calmness of a programmer and the blood of Zhenhe descendants, gradually revealed the truth about his ancestors' secrets, the cause of his father's death, and the curse of the river amidst the strange folk customs and monstrous waves.
Three hundred years of cause and effect are settled in one day; a river is plagued by monsters, but it is suppressed by life.
He is not a born hero, just an ordinary person who doesn't want to lose again.
This time, he wants to guard this river, guard
