In 2011, You Jun'ai, a veterinarian in Fengqing City, receives a letter from his late mother, Maple Sugar, after his aunt's funeral. She tells him to return to Shun'an's Yangming Village, which he left fifteen years ago, and claims there was more to his father's death than meets the eye. You Jun'ai was sent away in the middle of the night by his mother after accidentally killing his father. Now he returns to uncover the truth, only to find a second letter in his old home: his family has been haunted by a curse for a hundred years, and the answers lie in Blackcliff Forest. There, he encounters a woman in white who is a ghost, Granny Lu, a follower of the old god Xiao, and others. He also saves a man with no memories, known as Puppy. Together, they search for fragments of the ghost woman's son's soul to break the curse, but discover that her resentment stems from the old god Xiao's atrocities and the unjust killing of her clan. Behind the supposed faith lies a cult outpost where people are sacrificed alive in exchange for lifting the curse. You Jun'ai and Puppy fall in love amid captivity and escape, and learn that Puppy is the chosen sacrifice as well as a psychic who can erase memories. After escaping, they search for the mute woman's daughter's whereabouts, facing the flames of vengeance and the shadow of the old god. To end the curse once and for all, You Jun'ai decides to join the
