After failing her tribulation, the powerful cultivator Jiang Xintian transmigrates into the body of a college student with just 26.8 yuan left in her account. She livestreams fortune-telling and ghost hunting to earn merit, turning one “haunting” after another into public lessons in getting justice for both the living and the dead.
On her first day awake, Jiang Xintian is cornered outside the dormitory by debt collectors chasing the original owner’s online loans. She also discovers that the original owner was smeared across the internet as mentally ill for seeing the “ghost who jumped from the school building,” something she was never meant to witness. Jiang Xintian starts a livestream on a whim, hoping to earn enough for a meal, but in front of a hundred thousand viewers, she finds the belongings of a school custodian who vanished three years ago and catches the vengeful doppelganger spirit hiding in the old teaching building.
Lu Wang, a folk-occult case consultant for the city police bureau, only meant to investigate the source of the livestream’s disruption of public order. Instead, he is forced to become her “human user manual” and the one who handles cleanup at the scene. One uses talisman paper to subdue ghosts; the other uses evidence to close cases. One dares to climb onto graves, while the other needs the lights on just to watch a horror movie.
When Jiang Xintian’s little merit tracker announces that her “eligibility for ascension has been reopened,” she discovers she isn’t the only one who wants to go back. A whole group has been waiting for her, and they don’t want to be forgotten again.
