There is a severe drought in Puzhou. In the name of releasing grain, someone used a piece of yellow paper to "borrow lives" to buy the lives of forty-seven hungry people, and their bones filled the dry wells in the west of the city. Twenty years later, the masterminds of that year "volunteered to die" one after another, each with a riddle written on yellow paper that was exactly the same as that of Mr. Shen Yan, the scrivener. Shen Yan can read the "grievances in the words". In order to clear up the crime of being framed, he and the widower Gu Tan teamed up to trace the truth about the fate-taking bureau, but found that he was already the name circled by Zhu Bi in the book of life and death. The yellow paper is like a shadow, and the request for life is as promised - the life that was borrowed finally came back to collect debts.
