Zhao Tiejun, 35 years old, is a laid-off worker in a resource-depleted northeastern city. He is divorced and lives a life with a ten-year-old daughter.
Just when he was at his lowest, strange things happened one after another - he had a stabbing pain in his back, but the hospital could not find anything wrong; his daughter woke up in the middle of the night and said there was an old lady sitting on the sofa in the living room. In desperation, he found the blind old man Liu Tou, whose words sent shivers down his spine: "There is an old lady in a gray coat following behind you. That's your wife."
From then on, Zhao Tiejun was pushed onto a path he had never thought of: establishing a court and becoming a horse fairy. Possessed by him is Sister Hu Sanjie, a fox fairy who has been practicing for 800 years. She is an "old lady" who speaks like Northeastern people and loves to smoke pots and pots.
There is no flying and escaping fighting skills, no thrilling demon slaying. Some are just a cigarette in the middle of the night, the ambivalence brought by pilgrims, and the struggle between reality and belief of a low-level person - his ex-wife calls him a superstitious liar and fights for the custody of his daughter; the street office comes to knock on the door, and the police station comes to interview; helping people see things consumes his own blood, and he coughs up blood after a ritual.
But he continued to look. Look at the old man who lives alone after losing his bankbook, look at the junior high school students who jumped off the building due to school bullying, look at the women who can't wait for their husbands after the mining accident, and look at the ordinary people who are desperate and just want to find someone to talk to.
Sister Hu Sanjie said: "We are now grasshoppers tied to a rope."
Before he died, Old Liu Tou told him: "In our business, we serve as a messenger for the Lord of Hell, telling the damned people what they are worried about."
