Lin Shutong, an undertaker at Gui'an Hall, has a "strange quirk": whenever she does a dead person's makeup, she talks to the air. "Grandma Zhang, your granddaughter brought your gold bracelet. She left it by your right hand." "Xiao Tao, your mom planted sunflowers at your grave yesterday. They're blooming even more beautifully than last year." Her coworkers say she's crazy, but when grieving family members come to thank her with red-rimmed eyes, they always say, "She really understands." That is, until Xie Yan, an antique restorer in a dark green shirt, catches her in the act. The veins stand out on the hand gripping his compass. "The living and the dead belong to separate worlds! You're indulging wandering spirits and letting them pile up bad karma!" But she just smiles and smooths the shroud on the corpse. "Look, this grandma is clutching her bracelet because she's afraid her granddaughter will think she played favorites. That boy is lingering at the accident scene because he just wants to hear his mother say, 'It wasn't your fault.'
" When the "balance between yin and yang" guarded for generations by the night watchmen collides with the "warmth of the human heart" she has spent ten years coming to understand, and the truth behind her mother's death emerges alongside one paranormal mystery after another, Lin Shutong is determined to live at the boundary between the living and the dead as a light that lets the departed rest in peace and the living find peace of mind.
Theme: The bonds between people
