Fu Sang, a history major at Jingda University, came to a desolate cliff on the outskirts of the city for fieldwork related to his graduation thesis.
The protagonist of his thesis was Qi Changying, a high spirited general from a thousand years ago. Unfortunately, heaven is jealous of brilliant talent, and he vanished from historical records far too early.
This desolate cliff was rumored to be the place where Qi Changying met his end.
A place like this, where no blade of grass grew and was shrouded in deathly energy, was what spirit masters would call having bad “shi”, an environment prone to producing something unclean.
But Fu Sang was not afraid.
First, as a spirit master, he was very powerful.
Second, he was born unable to see ghosts. Logically speaking, he could not run into those things at all, so there was even less reason to be afraid…
Until he accidentally fell into a cave somewhere along the cliff face and, in the chaos, seemed to have broken something.
At some unknown moment, a fierce wind suddenly rose within the cave, and a chilling cold drove back the summer heat.
The next instant, as if a taut string had snapped, a torrent of resentment poured out from an unknown source. When his vision cleared again, a second “person” had appeared in the cave besides Fu Sang.
The “person” had long, disheveled hair and tattered robes. There were bloodstains all over his body, while thick, heavy chains bound all four of his limbs. His refined and handsome face was also filled with a gloomy ghostly energy.
Fu Sang quickly confirmed two things.
First, the yin energy, resentment, blood energy, and ghostly energy were all overwhelmingly heavy. This person must have died in an extremely tragic manner, and his soul had been suppressed here for nearly a thousand years to accumulate such a formidable resentful force.
In summary: A thousand-year-old fierce ghost.
Second…
Fu Sang glanced at the spirit tablet used for the seal. On it, he could vaguely make out two words…
Qi Changying.
“…?”
Good news: The rumor was true. This place really was where Qi Changying died.
Bad news:
It was about to be where he died too!
A Ghostly Romance (not really)
Modern supernatural episodic drama
A real spirit master and a fake vicious ghost
Chaotic evil x Lawful good
Catching ghosts, solving cases, falling in love
A gloomy, wicked, landmine-style spirit master shou with replies to everything but zero follow through
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A high-spirited, straightforward general gong who stands like the moon over the great river no matter how domineering you act
One-line summary: My favorite historical figure crawled out of his grave to find me
Theme: Self-reliance and strength, treating everyone with sincerity.
