Lu Qingyao is the youngest Soul Formation expert in the cultivation world, and her star-reading and divination skills are unmatched in her generation. After failing to survive her tribulation, her soul transmigrates into the body of an ordinary girl in a modern city who died from overwork.
Falling from the heights of the heavens into a rented apartment, her first problem isn't how to restore her cultivation, but how to pay the rent. She sets up a fortune-telling stall on an overpass and reads faces live online. Relying on the face-reading skills she honed in her previous life, she carves out a peculiar way to survive in this world, where "spiritual energy has dried up." She recognizes a wanted criminal during a livestream, finds a daughter who has been missing for fifteen years, helps a trapped earthbound spirit find peace after seven years, and clears the name of a younger sister framed as a scapegoat. One remark exposes the illusions in a person's face; one sentence soothes the hearts of countless people.
Every time she helps someone, a tiny sliver of warmth flows into her dantian. She gradually realizes that spiritual energy in this age of the end of the Dharma hasn't disappeared; it has merely fallen asleep. The key to awakening it lies in the kindness of ordinary people. Rather than drawing on the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, she must gather the will of humanity.
A cool and aloof immortal's account of surviving in the modern world, a journey of seeking the Dao from the heavens down to the human realm. She learns to say, "I care," to pour tea for others, and to steady a ladder when a friend is putting up a sign. The Dao isn't above the heavens; it's in the everyday warmth of human life. Eat a bowl of preserved egg and lean pork congee, drink a cup of slightly bitter ginkgo tea with a sweet aftertaste, and listen to an old Daoist ask, "Have I taken a wrong turn?" Tell him: You haven't. That perseverance itself is the Dao.
