A professor is desperate to live in a school district that will guarantee a good education for his daughter.

Wen Muge, an assassin, received a mission to despoil The Book of Boya from the Jiang family. (Boya is a famous musician in ancient Chinese history.) However, the Jiangs were killed at the inn they run, and The Book of Boya disappeared. Unexpectedly, Jiang Miaoxuan, the only survived daughter of the Jiangs and Wen Muge became the wanted criminals of the murder. Two of them had to begin the journal together to find The Book of Boya and the truth of the murder.

Young writer Guo (Shawn Yue) wrote about a titular curse in his book, “The Deserted Village”. It began 500 years ago in the Ming Dynasty, when one of the villagers died of terminal illness. The widow Yanzi vowed to stay with her husband forever but when the man suddenly returned to life. The horrified neighbours believed that he was a monster. They burned him to death and torched his mansion. The devastated Yanzi upheld her vow and threw herself into the fire. Since then, the village was cursed and the mansion subsequent inhabitant dies mysteriously. Some say only couples who share true love can survive in that village. Those who are unfaithful will come to their demise. To the world, the book was pure fiction. Only Guo and his ex-girlfriend Zhi (Kitty Zhang) had lived through the horror to know its existence. When four college students decided to explore the village themselves, the trip led them to an ancient well in Yanzi’s mansion, where the curse was unleashed once again.

Lin Nian and his mother depend on each other and live a low-key life. Lin Nian was accidentally discovered by Professor Cui, who carried out genetic modification that year, and Professor Cui ordered his subordinates to lead people to hunt down Lin Nian. On the way to escape, Shen Yu appeared to save him, and after a series of incidents, Lin Nian, Shen Yu, Song Ran, and the three joined forces to find out the truth.