The sixth year of the Yongle reign of the Ming Dynasty.
A bizarre murder shook the Yangtze Rampart Town, common folk were dying one after another, their corpses grotesque beyond imagination. Deputy Commissioner of the Embroidered Guards Nathaniel Lennox led his captains to investigate.
On the night road back to Golden Citadel, Nathaniel Lennox collided with a malevolent spirit and was rescued by the celestial priestess Mindy Fairall; thus the two first met.
In the Ming Dynasty where splendor and decay walked side by side countless uncanny events unfolded, seemingly random yet secretly bound by a thousand invisible threads.
Through one long campaign against demons after another, Mindy Fairall and Nathaniel Lennox shared life and death, and their hearts quietly found each other.
