Danyang City, a heart-digging case, traveling monk Qian Yue and Brahma from Linqing Temple investigate the case. Qian Yue recalls similar cases in Luoyang City back then and looks for the culprit, the female ghost Hongqu. Hongqu, who was burned to death during her lifetime, could not let go of her obsession with waiting for her husband to return. She lingered on the world and maintained her beauty by eating people's hearts. She did not care about it and only cared about what was in her heart. The deeper the obsession, the deeper the resentment, the more people were harmed. Hongqu pushed herself onto a path of no return. The cause of the past life, the result of this life, one person and one ghost, the mortal world is not over, the cycle of cause and effect, who is the final redemption.