The Celestial Master Is Truly a Paragon of Virtue!

Bai Yuan died, then Bai Yuan came back to life.

Nothing else changed, except he had only three days left to live and needed to catch ghosts to extend his life.

And so Y City welcomed a novice Daoist priest. Just how much of a novice was he?

Bai Yuan opened the 9.9-yuan peachwood sword he'd just bought online with free shipping. He took a photo, left a 50-character five-star review, and messaged customer service to claim a free poster of the Heavenly Master's ancestor, meant to ward off evil.

Great, he saved another 9.9 yuan by putting it up at the front door.

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Bai Yuan soon realized that ghosts weren't nearly as terrifying as urban legends made them out to be. Just like people, ghosts worried about trivial little things.

For example, a perfectionist painted-skin ghost couldn't draw symmetrical eyebrows; an old scholar's earthbound spirit kept getting its submissions rejected by underworld journals; and the Lantern-Shadow Hag would sleepwalk to eat late-night snacks while trying to lose weight, so her stomach and mouth never agreed on the numbers...

They were easy enough to deal with.

But for some reason, every time he used a little ghost ball to capture a ghost and bring it home,

the ghosts would look at his rented apartment with three parts shock, three parts confusion, three parts admiration, and one part ambition, then exclaim:

"The Heavenly Master truly lives with such noble integrity!"

Bai Yuan: ???

Gradually, strange things started happening.

While cleaning, he swept bundles of hundred-yuan bills out from under the bed.

A designer mug he brought to work to drink water from was bought at a high price by his rich second-generation coworker.

Even the evil-warding poster with its online five-star-review cash-back offer turned out to be an ancient artifact in the eyes of orthodox Daoist priests.

Bai Yuan pondered: ...If this keeps up, I feel like someone will come knocking.

The next day, the doorbell rang.

"We're from the Special Affairs Office. We suspect you of being involved in..."

Before they could say "illegally harboring supernatural beings," the handsome young man with fair skin in front of them sighed.

"Is it money laundering or fraud? Is there still time to return the money and make restitution?"

The painted-skin ghost was the first to jump in: "I earned all that money a penny at a time making short videos!!!"

The earthbound spirit followed close behind: "I collected every antique in the house through hard work livestreaming appraisals!"

The Lantern-Shadow Hag, who ran a healing meditation studio, looked guilty. "I do secretly suck a little life force, but that's the core service for treating the insomniacs who come to my shop. They won't sleep if I don't suck it out..."

The Special Affairs Office staff grew more and more numb as they listened.

So you're saying these A-class supernatural beings, the painted-skin ghost and the earthbound spirit,

and these S-class supernatural beings, the Lantern-Shadow Hag and the Heart-Mesmerizing Evil,

plus all these other ghosts and monsters, not only didn't kill you, but actually turned everything upside down and got jobs to support you???

How does that make any sense??!

The love interest is the Heavenly Master on the evil-warding poster Bai Yuan got as a reward for his five-star review.

Fake noble and upright, real Heavenly Master x genuinely noble and upright, fake Heavenly Master

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