During the Republic of China, undercurrents surged in the Jiangnan water town. The story uses the mysterious white peacock "Wu Huan" as a clue to connect the grievances and entanglements of the Ling family, the Hong family, the Qiao family and the Japanese onmyoji family. It integrates supernatural powers, curses, war and fate, and shows the love and hatred under the collision of old and new ideas.
Scholar Ling Tianming rescued a snow-white peacock in the market. This peacock is actually a thousand-year-old spiritual creature. Ling Tianming established a deep friendship with him, named him "Wu Huan", and wrote an exclusive poem "The jade feathers light up the blue sky". On the eve of the Japanese invasion of China, Kamo Chiyo appeared and sent Chou Toki's daughter (a female ghost in white) to curse Ling Tianming. The curse takes the form of a manzhu sand flower, and a poisonous flower grows on his face every month, corroding his flesh and blood, causing unbearable pain. At the same time, Kamo Chiyo used puppetry to control Qiao Tongsheng to steal Wu Huan's blood essence in order to refine it into a shikigami. In order to protect Wu Huan, Ling Tianming was forced to send him to the Shanghai Concession, but was intercepted by Kamo Chiyo. Wu Huan was imprisoned, and Ling Tianming was cursed and tortured, his face was disfigured, and he was nicknamed "Playboy".
Five years later, a young man named Wu Huan returned to Ling Tianming. He concealed his identity and secretly searched for a way to solve the curse. Although Ling Tianming was aware of his connection with the white peacock (as evidenced by the crescent scar on his neck), he did not reveal it. The two sat around the stove making tea and reciting poems, and their bond grew deeper. .
Intention: Everyone is born perfect, there is no so-called good or evil, and it is always the people in the world who are complicated, not the people themselves.