My name is Lin Xiaoman. I was born with a fate that brings nothing but misfortune, and everything I do goes wrong.
I lose money at work, get thrown out for falling behind on rent, and run into a woman in red who is a ghost in the apartment hallway at midnight. Everyone steers clear of me, calling me a walking disaster.
Then the miserly old Taoist Xuanjizi stops me: All this bad luck makes you the natural enemy of every ghost.
Only after joining Qingxu Temple do I learn that while others cultivate with spiritual energy, I use misfortune to suppress evil. My talisman drawings blow up the furnace, and exorcisms demolish houses. Wrecking things is part of daily life, and my master keeps a running tally of everything I break, nagging me to pay him back.
While exorcising spirits down the mountain, I meet Bai Lingxi, who has a pure spirit jade constitution. Her good fortune happens to suppress my bad luck, so the two of us, one unlucky and one blessed, team up to brave haunted houses and descend into the underworld.
The evil cultivators of the Withered Bones Sect pursue us relentlessly, and the Heavenly Dao's fate-locking curse conceals a shocking deception. In the end, the unlucky boy everyone once despised uses his power of misfortune to keep the evil spirits of the Six Realms from daring to raise their heads.
