Ghost-catching master Ye Lingxi dies beneath the heavenly punishment of a lightning tribulation, after being plotted against by her fellow disciples. When she opens her eyes again, she's a fifteen-year-old concubine-born daughter of the Chancellor's Duke's household, on her way to be sent to a brothel.
Her legitimate elder sister has stolen her fiancé, and her own father has sold her for favor. From the start, this life is a dead end all over again.
But she smiles, because she sees the regent's carriage, and the three feet of soaring resentment circling above his head.
“My lord,” she cries, falling to her knees in front of the carriage, “evil spirits are haunting your residence. Someone will die within three days. I am willing to help you.”
The city's nobles laugh at her for being insane.
Three days later, three bodies that had been buried for ten years are dredged from a well in the regent's residence. Seven days later, the daughter of the Minister of Rites grows a fox's tail. Half a month later, a vengeful earthbound spirit comes for the Grand Tutor's young son...
Only then do the people of the capital begin to panic. The ghostly secrets hidden behind vermilion gates and embroidered curtains are exposed one by one. Each solved case brings back a piece of her past-life memories, and the truth they reveal grows more horrifying: her death, the ghosts of the capital, and the city underground all point to the same source.
Someone intends to use the lives of the entire capital to raise a Ghost Emperor among the living.
And Ye Wantang has only one thing to do: send every person who owes her, and every person who owes this world, to the place they belong, one by one.
Three thousand demons and ghosts haunt the mortal realm, but none are half as wicked as the human heart.
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