A young man travels from his hometown to Hengdian, the place where the country's biggest movies are filmed. Like many others, his dream is to become a movie star. However, the life of an actor proves to be very harsh, and only a select few will ever be anything more than extras.

In Taiping Town, a frail young girl named Liu Yuenu makes a living by crafting paper figures. Disdained by her brother, Yuenu lives alone in the mountains. Unexpectedly, within half a month, the siblings suffer tragic fates. One commits suicide in her bedroom, her blood staining the ground; the other is found hanged by a woman's long hair in a theater. Detective Zhang Yiren, invited by the town's old headman, arrives to investigate. On his arrival night, he encounters strange events, but is fortunately helped by a beggar girl named Gouzi. However, a series of bizarre murders occur in the town, and rumors of paper figures possessing souls and vengeful spirits begin to circulate…

Elderly Nun Wumei inadvertently obtained a special martial art "Yanshi's Offering", where the practitioners can control others in distance, no matter they're living or dead. At the same time, Emperor Qianlong's nephew Yonghan held a grudge since his father Hongshi died tragically after being cut from his clan status. Under the guise of killing people who had been opposing Ming Dynasty, he plundered the martial art skills of all sects and tried to usurp the throne. His new goal is the Emei secret skill "Yanshi's Offering." Bai Yuanming, who is proficient in medicine, came to Emei to relieve the malaria crisis. He met Li Erhuan, a female disciple of Emei, and was involved in disputes. Under the pseudonym Sun Ziyi, Yonghan sneaked into Emei to provoke a dispute in an attempt to profit from it, and was eventually defeated by Bai Yuanming and Li Erhuan

Ma Daocheng, a poor but extremely hard-working actor, returned to his rental house to take a bath and go to bed after a tiring day. When he walked into the rental house, he found that a stubborn and unreasonable girl came to the house. The beautiful girl asked to live here in the future. What kind of story will happen to the two people under the same roof, and what motives does this girl have?

Weary of the bloodshed and violence from the martial arts world, a powerful swordsman banishes himself to the humble life a vagrant, wandering the fringes of society. But his violent past refuses to let him go quietly. The master swordsman must regain the ability to wield his sword and fight those disrupting the peace he so desperately craves.