A Marriage Contract Made Me the City God’s Beloved

Chen Yinyin, an embroiderer in the late Qing dynasty, was born on the Ghost Festival. A fortune-teller judged her to be “the corpse-immortal bride born under an ominous moon and at an ominous hour.”

When she was eighteen, a paper sedan chair carried her into an ancient tomb in the wilderness, where she became the wife of a thousand-year-old Corpse King.

After their wedding, she returned to her embroidery shop in Jiangnan, only to discover that the ghosts of those who had died unjustly were always haunting her.

To protect herself, she apprenticed herself to a shaman and studied Nuo exorcism. Using embroidery needles to resolve the lingering grievances of vengeful spirits, she gradually discovered that her husband was actually the City God in charge of the underworld in the Jianghuai region.

When the daughter of the Grand Preceptor was murdered and turned into a vengeful ghost seeking blood, Chen Yinyin was forced to join forces with her Corpse King husband. Together, they waged a battle between yin and yang before the City God Temple, amid a storm of flying paper money...