Le Cheng, nicknamed "Silly Dacheng," is a simple, dutiful man. To build up good karma for his sick mother, he apprentices himself to Master Lu and learns the art of paper funerary crafts. They say Le Cheng married a beautiful woman, but his wife, Du Juan, mistreats her mother-in-law. And less than half a year into their marriage, she gives "Silly Dacheng" a son, making him a "happy father" to another man's child.
Soon afterward, evil spirits begin attacking people in Desolate Grave Village. According to Le Cheng, Du Juan has fallen into dark arts and is secretly using curses to take revenge on Zhao Tianhu, who once harassed her. The villagers lay a devious trap for Du Juan, but all she can do is cry out in helpless pain. She is nothing like the vicious, scheming woman Le Cheng described.
The lies of "Silly Dacheng" are exposed, and his hypocritical, treacherous true nature is revealed. He had been deceiving everyone all along. He only got close to Master Lu to steal forbidden arts and make money by harming people. Du Juan had never married him at all. He was simply taking revenge on her out of spite because she rejected him. He had even beaten his own mother until she was crippled and "cured" her deafness, all to make his act more convincing...
To stop Le Cheng from continuing to wreak havoc among the living, his junior fellow apprentice Pan Sen tracks him to Rouge River, Mist City, the Desolate Ancient Town, and the Spirit Medium Academy. There, he meets his extraordinary teammate Xie Xia and decides to start an "Underworld Language Training Class" before delving deeper into the secrets of the world of the dead...
