Shen sect leader Shen Zhaowei is threatened by her fiancé Lu Zhaoheng with their betrothal, intending to swallow up the sect's industries. She decisively annuls the engagement and shoulders the precarious sect through wind and rain. Accidentally drawn into the Lingchen mystery case, she investigates the truth of her master's murder. Faced with the intense and obsessive protection of Tianheng chief Xie Wuchen and the entanglements of her ex's regret, she refuses to depend on anyone, unravels layers of conspiracy, guards the peace of the spiritual veins, builds up the sect, and reaps a sincere romance of mutual devotion.