I Refuse to Be the Village Guardian Who Takes the Blame, Yet I Specialize in Curing the World's Evil Spirits

Gu Ping'an, a severely mentally ill patient being studied, unexpectedly transmigrates into a parallel timeline in 1976.

Unfortunately, his former self was the village's despised village guardian, a fool everyone looked down on. He can only fight back against his wretched fate.

What is a village guardian? Someone who wards off calamity for the whole village, bears its evil influences, and absorbs all the karmic consequences of its wicked spirits. That's why they all end up mad and foolish, cursed and reviled, and ultimately meet a miserable end.

"Why should I bear people's calamities for free, only to have my dignity trampled on?"

After being beaten in a torrential downpour, his soul awakens, and he learns the truth: to break the rules, he must accumulate yin energy. Otherwise... at best, he'll become a mad fool again; at worst, he'll meet his great-grandma on the spot.

From then on, he sets out on a one-way path to dispel evil spirits and break free of his fate.

When Gu Ping'an becomes a master of the ancient art of face reading, he casually summons a bolt of heavenly lightning and blasts a red-clad vengeful ghost until its soul is scattered. Then, under everyone's astonished gaze, he adjusts his tattered straw hat and says earnestly:

"Neighbors, don't be superstitious. There are no ghosts in this world. That was just a mass hallucination caused by a methane leak. Believe in science!"

The vengeful ghost: "Don't I deserve to save face?"

The villagers glance at the smoking crater on the ground, then look up at him as if he's the fool. "Right, right... We may be ignorant, but you really are shameless!"

See how Gu Ping'an unravels strange old mysteries and rides the winds of change through the cracks of the times.