Jiang Nanyu was an abandoned infant found by Taoist Chang Yin in a train station trash can and raised in the Changqing Monastery in Tonggu Town, Jiangcheng. She learned Taoist metaphysics, exorcism, and divination from her master, following him across the country until she entered high school, when he ordered her to focus on studies and get into a university in the capital city. After she was accepted, her master had been missing for three years, having left a letter saying he was traveling. With no savings and only four hundred yuan left, Jiang Nanyu decided to go to the capital early to find a part-time job and secretly search for her master.In the capital, she failed to find any job for three days because most summer positions had been taken. On the brink of exhaustion, she saw an advertisement for a night watchman at the West Mountain Funeral Home that provided food and accommodation. Ignoring the gender discrimination, she went directly to apply. The manager, Manager Wang, initially refused because she was a woman, but she insisted that she was brave, strong, and had a strong horoscope from her Taoist upbringing. An urgent incident forced Manager Wang to give her a trial.The funeral home had a dark secret: it was heavily haunted. At night, a Clown Man ghost, who was a pianist and manager in his past life, forced corpses from the morgue to perform in the viewing hall, accompanied by an audience of minor ghosts. Jiang Nanyu, investigating strange sounds, discovered this. Her meal was spoiled by a ghost face that turned her hot pot into bloody water and then spoiled a TV show, angering her. She grabbed the spoiler ghost and pressed its head into the hot pot. Later, she encountered the Clown Man and his minions. Using a talisman and her martial skills, she easily defeated them all. The One-Eyed Female Ghost and Red Oil Female Ghost, who had schemed to witness her downfall, were also subdued. The Clown Man confessed he had never killed anyone but only played pranks on corpses. Jiang Nanyu made him carry the corpse back and restore the room.The next morning, Manager Wang reviewed the surveillance footage and saw Jiang Nanyu carrying a runaway corpse back. Amazed, he offered her the night watchman job on a daily wage and provided her with a storage room to stay in, allowing her to also help during the day. Jiang Nanyu moved into the funeral home.During subsequent nights, the ghosts showed her obedience. The Clown Man, with a genuine concern for his wife and child, asked Jiang Nanyu to check on them, offering payment from his hidden savings. She agreed. The younger female ghost, Shuang Shuang, excitedly reported that she and her sister had discovered a scandal: the popular young actor Chen Sheng was secretly paying respects to a murdered girlfriend. They overheard that Chen Sheng had hired someone to kill her. The deceased girlfriend’s ghost wanted to hire Jiang Nanyu to expose the killer. Jiang Nanyu was outraged and considered taking the case, knowing it would be challenging but worthwhile.Later that night, Jiang Nanyu caught three grave robbers attempting to steal corpses from the morgue. They had a van hidden nearby. With the help of the ghosts, she subdued all three and called the police and Manager Wang. The robbers confessed to a plan to sell the stolen bodies to families in remote areas for spirit marriages, a crime of human trafficking. The arrest was publicized, and the funeral home’s reputation, which had suffered from rumors of hauntings and lost bodies, was largely restored. Manager Wang gave Jiang Nanyu a reward of five thousand yuan and treated her as a valuable asset. He even wanted her to stay long-term.Jiang Nanyu continued her night shifts, maintaining peace between the living and the dead. The funeral home ghosts now respected her as their leader. She balanced her duties with her hidden agendas: investigating Chen Sheng’s crime to help the wronged ghost and continuing the search for her missing master. Her part-time job turned into a stable position, and she began to build a new life in the capital.
