Hou Junjie

The story focuses on Visually impaired but nonetheless lethal bounty hunter Cheng Xiazi who happened upon the assaulted Ni Yan, the lone survivor of a brutal massacre that claimed her whole family.

The story follows Sui Yuan, a scholar traveling to Beijing to pursue his studies, who accidentally stumbles into the "mandarin duck hot pot" trap set by the carp demon Jiang Xiaoyu and falls in love with her. Centered around the Yangtze River, the story reinterprets hot pot culture and creates a bizarre and colorful world of demons.