Hu Tao is the seventy-seventh director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor in Liyue Harbor, responsible for the rites of life and death and well acquainted with the partings and reunions of the mortal world. One day, an accident pulls her into a rift in time and space, dropping her into Wutong City, a modern metropolis with no Visions, no elemental power, and not even any visible stars.
The rift closes for good behind her. There’s no way back.
The first person she meets in this world is Wen Shixu, a mortuary makeup artist. A director who bids the dead farewell and a young man who prepares their bodies, two people whose lives revolve around death, find light in each other beneath the neon.
Without a Vision, the director of the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor opens a “branch office” in another world with nothing but a sincere heart. The taciturn makeup artist leaves a light burning for her, one that will never go out.
When the last plum blossom lands on his shoulder, she finally knows for certain: the Wangsheng Funeral Parlor doesn’t have to be in Liyue. Wherever her heart finds peace is home.
