Shen Xiaoman, heir to a modern funeral shop, is dragged into a magical world by an old clock, waking up as a sacrifice in Greystone City. Using bronze bells and yellow talismans to suppress monsters, she exposes the shady scheme of temple official Bake controlling ghosts with a bone whistle to amass wealth, and is taken in by Mia, a bakery girl. Making a living with her funeral craft, she discovers ghosts hidden inside peace talismans, grain silos repackaged with black nails, and mines registering living people as dead. Alongside Kane, Lao Bai, Mia, and others, she investigates all the way, uncovering the truth about Viktor, president of the City Protection Association, using a black clock to imprison souls and raise ghosts for wealth. Finally, at a public trial in the clock tower square, everyone dismantles the clock to release the souls, and Shen Xiaoman sends the evil god into the fire, sending the guest home.