I Wait for Her Return at the Funeral Home

In Lu Ping County stands a charitable burial ground, where a corpse keeper named Chi Chaomu watches over the dead. The Chi family has served as corpse keepers for generations, and Chi Chaomu has carried on her father's trade. But no one has ever seen what Chi Chaomu truly looks like. She always wears a terrifying ghost mask. As cold as the burial ground she guards, she seems to give off a chill. No one knows she is actually a warmhearted, kind girl. In a time of chaos, human lives are worth no more than grass. People pray to gods and Buddhas, yet keep their distance from those who truly protect them. Shandao, the leader of the Maoshan Sect, has one and only one personal disciple: Bian Shaoxuan, who understands yin and yang and can foresee the future. Rumor has it that whoever gains Bian Shaoxuan will gain the realm. But Shandao has given an order: Bian Shaoxuan must never leave the mountain in this lifetime. Two people who should have had nothing to do with each other met when Bian Shaoxuan secretly went down the mountain one day. A wretched corpse keeper and an equally wretched bearer of heavenly destiny crossed paths and became confidants. Bian Shaoxuan taught Chi Chaomu many Maoshan arts, while Chi Chaomu led Bian Shaoxuan astray from the proper path. Until one day, after losing a bet with Chi Chaomu, Bian Shaoxuan slipped down the mountain to collect her body. But when she returned, she found the entire Maoshan Sect slaughtered, and Chi Chaomu, who had impersonated her, nowhere to be found. The bright and carefree bearer of heavenly destiny descended into hell. There was no longer any Bian Shaoxuan, bearer of heavenly destiny. Now there was only a corpse keeper who wore a ghost mask every day and hardly spoke, guarding the burial ground by day and summoning souls again and again by night, waiting for the real Chi Chaomu to return. She always felt that Chi Chaomu was not dead, and that one day she would come back. If she could not find even a trace of her soul, how could anyone prove she was truly dead? Bian Shaoxuan did not want to believe it, and did not dare to. She thought that as long as she stayed here, her Chaomu would find her way home. In a chaotic age of strife, humans and ghosts walk the same roads, and everyone wants to become the emperor of the realm. When the Great Yan's third princess, famed for her military achievements, was demoted and sent to Lu Ping County, all manner of forces gathered there as well. The corpse keeper had never cared about such things, until one day the third princess knocked on the burial ground's door. When the gates opened, Bian Shaoxuan saw the person she had searched for over so many years. Theme: Never give up hope, no matter when. A day will always come when the way ahead opens up.