With a fake compass and half a fragmentary copy of the Book of Changes, Qin Buqi pretended to be a mystic, conning people out of food and drink to get by.
Then, outside a ruined temple, he found Lin Peng, a frail young heiress to a family of talisman masters who couldn't even look after herself.
He thought she would be easy to fool and planned to make enough money for travel expenses. She thought he could keep her alive and planned to use him as cover. Each had their own agenda, but they hit it off at once.
Then, in the dead of night, a chilling wind rose and a vengeful ghost came for their lives. Qin Buqi's fake compass shattered into pieces. His legs went limp, and he was about to drop to his knees and beg for mercy, when the frail young woman beside him slowly stood up. Dark red demonic markings appeared at her fingertips, and she slapped a yellow talisman onto his back. "Immortal Master, carry on. I'll hold the line for you from behind."
A con man meets a true half-demon; a fake master meets a fake heiress. After they had crossed mountains of corpses and seas of blood, Qin Buqi finally discovered that the talisman on Lin Peng had been his master's final work: "This talisman suppresses demons, and it also suppresses fate. Whoever draws it shares their fate with a demon."
Theme: Cultivate truth through falsehood, and prove the Dao through deception. The world says demons are terrifying, but it doesn't know that the human heart is more sinister than any ghostly realm. Break through worldly prejudice and achieve mutual redemption.
