[One-line premise: The wicked woman killed me in my past life. Even as a ghost, I won’t let her get away with it.]
Destitute and with nowhere else to turn, Bai Miao leads her whole family to seek help from Lin Youyu, the top scholar who loves her.
Caught in a downpour along the way, they take shelter in a general’s temple, but accidentally fall into the underworld. The sinister Ghost King Yuwen Yan pursues her, insisting on marrying her to fulfill the obsession he had in life and dispel his resentment.
But if they marry, Bai Miao will become a sacrifice, die on her wedding night, and remain in the underworld forever.
Bai Miao doesn’t want to die. She has family and friends in the human world.
She tries every way she can to find a path back to the human world.
To get home, Bai Miao sets her sights on Yuwen Yan’s ghost core. She has no choice but to sweet-talk the sinister Ghost King and lure him into taking her back to the human world to see her parents, then turn around and find an expert to capture him.
The only way to get rid of this trouble is to kill him. The key to destroying him is the bones of the person he loves most and the person he hates most.
Bai Miao and Lin Youyu pore over old texts and discover that Yuwen Yan was the renowned God of War of Eastern Wu five hundred years ago, poisoned to death on his wedding night because his achievements threatened the emperor.
Clearly, the person he loved most was the Princess of Eastern Wu, and the person he hated most was the young Emperor of Eastern Wu.
With Lin Youyu’s help, they rob tombs in search of the bones. But when Bai Miao opens a portrait of the Princess of Eastern Wu, she discovers that the woman looks exactly like her.
In their wedding finery, amid red candles and bloodstained silk, just before he dies, he snarls, “Wicked woman! Even as a ghost, I won’t let you get away with it.”
Memories of her past life come flooding back, and she remembers everything.
Bai Miao doesn’t want him to drag her back to the underworld. If she could kill Yuwen Yan once in her past life, she can kill him a second time.
