This is a story about obsession, atonement and inheritance.
The down-and-out scholar Wang Mingyuan has been pestered by a dark and fat woman for more than thirty days. She beat him, sat on his knees, and forced him to hang with his cloth belt. The Taoist dragged her out of the window and she turned into a clay ghost in the yard.
After Wang Mingyuan recovered from his illness, he was assassinated, only to find that the clay ghosts in the Chenghuang Temples in various places were disappearing one by one, and the scholars hung themselves from the beams one after another. Their death was exactly the same as his death.
A hundred years ago, his great-grandfather Wang Xiangkun wrote a memorial to Heaven to listen to as a mortal, sealing the fallen city god Xuanming. Now that the seal is loose, Xuan Ming is about to wake up.
And the washed white cloth belt was embroidered with the words "Xincheng Wang Xiangkun Zhi". The woman recognized the scent above - she had been waiting for a hundred years, not for "I'm sorry", but for an answer.
Wang Mingyuan did not use the token. He wrote a piece of "Slaying Demons" on the stone tablet that sealed the underground palace. The words penetrated the underground palace and went straight to the sky. A cloth belt, a word "seal", a mortal used a pen to completely seal a fallen city god.
He did not go to Beijing to take the exam, but stayed in Licheng County and opened a private school. He wrote his experience into a book called "The Record of Mud Ghosts".
The first page of the book reads: "Monsters want to become humans but cannot, but humans often forget that they are already humans. This is the saddest thing in the world."
