In the chaotic Republican era, yin and yang are reversed, and ghosts run rampant.
The cool, aloof female funeral cosmetologist at a funeral home in Beiping seems human, but is in fact a thousand-year-old drought demon.
A thousand pieces of her life-bone are scattered across the world. Each bone leads to a bizarre case, and each memory to a destiny.
The cold-faced detective Li Du is a lonely star under a baleful fate, and the reincarnation of a black dragon.
His blood is the only thing that can calm her;
He is the love of a thousand years she cannot escape. Together, they investigate one bizarre case after another, seeking her bones and vanquishing evil along the way.
She prepares the dead for burial; he protects her eternal life.
