Li Mingyuan owns a gift shop by Dongting Lake. After he stole business from the local bully, Liu Jiancheng, his shop was trashed, and his business never recovered. But one day, a college classmate offered him a job: go treasure hunting. Driven by curiosity and a desire to see the world, he insisted on joining his classmate and a group of expert tomb raiders on their expedition. Along the way, he met Beiming and Deng Hongfei. One by one, he encountered things he had never seen in his life, or even imagined. Every new encounter grew more bizarre than the last.
A World of Joy and Sorrow is a story whose surface plot revolves around ghost hunting and tomb raiding, while its underlying story satirizes the powerful and exposes the human heart.