After returning to Beijing to recognize the bride, the eldest lady of metaphysics is hard to find.

Pei Zhaoyuan, a master of metaphysics, was reborn into misfortune. Her adoptive parents stole her luck, and their family prospered because of it. Her four adopted brothers rose to fame among the people, yet they tortured her to death—breaking her legs, locking her in a dungeon, and starving her. Meanwhile, her biological family was steeped in bad luck. Her four birth brothers were, respectively, disabled, chronically ill, socially withdrawn, and a reckless playboy—a complete set of disappointments. Pei Zhaoyuan returned to them, her body broken. Everyone mocked her, saying, “How can a dying invalid change anything?” Later, they knelt before her. Pei Zhaoyuan catches ghosts, discerns fortune and misfortune, draws talismans, and alters feng shui. The moment she speaks, the powerful figures of the capital rush to offer her money. When she frowns, ferocious spirits beg for mercy. As for her four useless brothers—the crippled eldest, who had given up on himself, she cured him and made him her chief assistant. The second brother, weary of the world and longing for death, she frightened with ghosts until he turned his life around. The third brother, terrified of people, she took to see spirits, and he unexpectedly became a talkative storyteller of the ghost world. The fourth brother, plagued by bad luck, she blocked his ill-fated romances, and he turned into the family’s good-luck charm. The adoptive parents’ family watched their fortune drain away in a frenzy. Desperate, they broke down and asked, “What do you want?” Pei Zhaoyuan looked up and smiled lightly. “You stole from me, so you pay with your lives. Isn’t that fair?”