In order to repay his father's huge gambling debt, a young man named Shen Mo was forced to work as a night shift autopsy at a funeral home. On his first night, he encountered a "strange rule" - the number of corpses being collected must not be counted incorrectly. When he discovers a beautiful but cold female body in ancient palace clothes in the morgue, a deadly grudge that spans hundreds of years and a secret curse against his family kicks off a bloody prelude.