Shen Qingyan, a master of the thousand-year-old Qingxu Sect, failed to survive his heavenly tribulation. His soul fell into the modern world, where he was reborn as an impoverished young man, burdened with debt and left homeless. He possesses orthodox Daoist skills, and his divinations and predictions are always precise, yet he runs into a bizarre bug in the Heavenly Dao: every reading is completely reversed. The most ominous signs bring unexpected fortune, while the most auspicious ones predict disaster.
Xia Zhiwan, a sociable self-media influencer, accidentally enters his life and films him solemnly telling fortunes, then getting wildly rich the moment he steps outside. The clip goes viral overnight, and the label “Backwards Master” sweeps the internet. Jobs, romance, wealth, criminal investigations: every disaster he predicts ends up becoming a tremendous blessing. Fake masters with ulterior motives, malicious debunkers, and unscrupulous marketing accounts all meet ruin when they encounter one of his supposedly auspicious readings.
He remains true to his Daoist calling to help the world, answering ordinary people’s questions and solving their problems for free, without chasing fame or fortune. He goes from being a “superstition-peddling influencer” investigated by the police to a specially appointed public safety consultant, winning a powerful business tycoon, a top-tier star, an orthodox Daoist priest, and many others as followers. When he calculates his own romantic fortune, the reading says his prospects are bleak. Clumsily trying to keep his distance, he instead finds himself falling for Xia Zhiwan, and the two begin a hilarious, mutual pursuit.
At last, the truth comes to light: the collective thoughts of billions of internet users twisted the rules of the Heavenly Dao, creating his one-of-a-kind reversed divination. The thousand-year-old Daoist who once sought only to ascend to immortality ultimately finds enlightenment amid the warmth of ordinary life. With his beloved and his friends by his side, he lives out a singular legend, guided by his wonderfully contrary divinations.
