The beautiful young man Ma Ji was born into a merchant family, but his family fell into decline and he could only inherit his father's business. When he went to sea for the first time, he encountered a hurricane and drifted to the Rakshasa country, where ugliness is considered beautiful. Because of his outstanding appearance, Ma Ji was ostracized in the Rakshasa Kingdom. Thanks to the guidance of the halberd master, he painted his face with black charcoal to disguise himself as Zhang Fei, and was unexpectedly appreciated by the prime minister. While dancing with swords and singing songs in the palace, Ma Ji discovered that his singing could arouse strange resonance.
Once while participating in the sea market, Ma Ji met the third prince of the East China Sea and was invited to enter the Dragon Palace to compose a poem. In the Dragon Palace, he and the dragon girl Lingxi were connected, but because of their differences between immortals and mortals, they had to separate in the end. Three years later, the two reunited, when the dragon girl gave birth to twins, a dragon and a phoenix.
After Ma Ji returned home, he faced the dilemma of his wife remarrying and his parents dying. In order to help him, the dragon girl turned her pearl tears into rain to revive the dead tree. At the funeral of Ma Ji, the dragon girl wore sackcloth and paid filial piety, using thousands of years of spiritual power to continue her human relationship with Ma Ji. The two of them persisted in this relationship that transcended the world despite many difficulties.
Intent: To satirize the inverted aesthetic concept that regards ugliness as beauty.