A Guide to Exorcising Ghosts

After suffering a severe injury and losing his memories, Zheng Nanhui, an elder of the Zhuoheng Sect, spends his days either meditating in seclusion or descending the mountain to exorcise ghosts, punish evil, and root out villains. His life is utterly dull.

But while taking a job to descend the mountain and eliminate an evil spirit, Zheng Nanhui catches a faint glimpse of his past memories. With the appearance of the peerless magical treasure, the Tenglong Seal, he begins collecting the seals one by one and realizes that someone seems to have carefully arranged things so he can gradually recover more of his past. Unbeknownst to him, his entire life may already have been laid out and schemed against.

Beneath a valley shrouded in miasma and besieged by ghosts lies a coffin containing a rare treasure;

In a place supposedly blessed by a mighty deity lurks a sinister water ghost that has claimed countless lives;

Plots and schemes unfold inside an evil-suppressing pagoda in the desert;

Beneath the lightning tribulation of ascension, a sword thrust through his heart comes from someone close to him...

Countless mysteries await Zheng Nanhui. What is the past hidden beneath his fame throughout the Nine Provinces?

Very much a story-focused novel with a male lead who is the pursued partner; the romance develops slowly.

Steadfast, devoted, occasionally ghostly bottom x once-glorious, sensitive, fragile top

Theme: Finding your true self and learning to accept yourself.