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 by researchers, unexpectedly transmigrates to 1976 in a parallel world.

Unfortunately, his previous self was the village idiot, the one everyone despised and called the "Village Guardian." He has no choice but to fight back against that accursed fate.

What is a Village Guardian? Someone who shields the whole village from calamities, bears its baleful forces, and absorbs all the karmic burdens of evil spirits. That's why they all end up crazy and foolish, enduring endless curses before meeting a miserable end.

"Why should I take calamities for others for free, only to have my dignity trampled?"

After being beaten in a torrential downpour, his soul awakens. Only then does he learn that breaking the rules requires him to accumulate Yin Qi. Otherwise... at best he'll become a fool again, and at worst he'll meet Granny in the afterlife on the spot.

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

When Gu Ping'an becomes a master fortune-teller of the Ma Yi school, he turns around and strikes a red-clad vengeful ghost with a bolt of heavenly lightning, blasting it into oblivion. Then, under the crowd's dumbfounded stares, he adjusts his battered straw hat and solemnly says:

"Folks, don't believe in superstition. There are no ghosts in this world. That was just a mass hallucination caused by a gas leak. You have to believe in science!"

The vengeful ghost: "Do I get no say in this?"

The villagers glance at the smoking crater on the ground, then look up at him as if he's an idiot. "Right, right... We may be ignorant, but you're one hell of a schemer!"

See how Gu Ping'an solves eerie mysteries of the past and rides the waves between the cracks of a changing era.