A young girl, bound by an ancient altar's curse, must make a soul-stealing deal with a demon to save her village from a relentless drought, leading to a harrowing journey of betrayal and redemption....

In a mystical world of the Liao Zhai, a young girl, He Qing, embarks on a perilous quest to retrieve the stolen soul of a revered spirit, with her only companion being a talking cat with a secret of its own....