Ye Mian is the bottom-ranked good-for-nothing celestial master in the Imperial Capital's circle. Though his talent is maxed out, he has yet to find his calling. By a twist of fate, he becomes a guest brought in to help out on the hit midnight variety show No Ghosts Tonight.
At midnight, faced with a deserted villa, cold and pitch-black up ahead, Ye Mian nods. He's a good-for-nothing, but he has a great attitude: No problem. How many ghosts can there really be in this world? Surely he won't be that unlucky.
Half an hour after entering the villa, all eight guests are unharmed. Only Ye Mian runs straight into the arms of a headless female ghost and lets out a shrill scream!
Terrified and fleeing with his head in his hands, Ye Mian summons a little ghost who owes him a favor, using a forbidden technique to save his own life.
The contract is sealed. In the darkness, a tall, upright figure slowly walks toward Ye Mian.
As the contracted ghost draws near, Ye Mian's excitement turns to astonishment...
Th-this isn't Qin Yuyi, the hugely popular movie emperor with countless fans and an absurdly high net worth? Is he here to take part in this variety show too?
Only when Qin Yuyi glares at Ye Mian with a handsome, dark face and grits out, "Your esteemed master," does Ye Mian finally stare in shock, unsure whether to marvel that the movie emperor is a ghost or worry that he summoned the wrong one.
Qin Yuyi cultivated the Dao as a ghost, and has now cultivated himself halfway into a human. Countless ghosts respectfully call him "Lord Evil God," but the Evil God has no love for the ghostly path, only for the human world. So he transformed himself into a movie emperor adored by all.
He never expected to slip up and become the contracted ghost of a good-for-nothing celestial master.
Qin Yuyi only wants to fulfill the contract and break it as soon as possible. Looking at the lazy Ye Mian, who's content to lie flat, he waves a hand and takes on countless ghost-hunting jobs in the entertainment industry for him.
Forced to buckle down, Ye Mian makes a face of pure misery. With Qin Yuyi "looking after him," his reputation gradually grows until he's become a celebrated figure in the Imperial Capital's celestial master community!
At some point, a rumor spreads through both the ghost world and the celestial master community.
They say that Lord Evil God, still living in the human world, found himself a celestial master wife and is now going around "exorcising demons and defending the Dao" to please him.
The ghosts who hear this collapse to the ground, weeping and cursing: Beauty has clouded his judgment! Beauty brings ruin to the nation!
Ye Mian: ?
Qin Yuyi twists off a vicious ghost's head with one hand and offers it to Ye Mian. Tilting his head, he smiles with wicked abandon. "I suppose they're not entirely wrong?"
A fake good-for-nothing who's actually a big shot, but a lazy celestial master (bottom) x Evil God movie emperor (top)
Theme: Love