Defying Heaven's Way: I Define Righteousness and Evil

With gods and Buddhas in seclusion and the Heavenly Dao concealed, the chaotic world of Dayan is overrun by demons and ghosts. Etiquette and law crumble, the government proves powerless, and the mortal realm becomes a purgatory where humans are preyed upon by specters, their lives as fleeting as grass, born at dawn and dead by dusk. Shen Yan, a modern folklore graduate student, transmigrates into the body of a destitute scholar living alone in a haunted mansion, cursed with the Yin Binding Life-Sealing Spell, his yang energy depleted, with only three days left to live. On a cold, rainy night, a skin-peeling female ghost clings to him, stealing his soul each night, waiting for the curse to claim his life so she can flay him. His death is sealed; no one can save him. In this desperate situation, Shen Yan awakens the Destiny Disk of Yin-Yang Empathy. He neither slays demons nor exorcises ghosts, nor walks the path of slaughter; he can only see through the blood, tears, obsessions, regrets, and karmic shackles beneath every ghost's and demon's guise. The world fears ghosts and exterminates them, but he pities their solitude and uses his body to ferry their souls. A single thought of tenderness reverses the course of righteousness and evil! The life-devouring skin ghost seals her killing intent for him, the secluded orchid ghost breaks free from Black Mountain's fate for him, the enchanting fox spirit abandons her thousand-year demonic nature for him... Countless beautiful and eerie spirits fall for him, defy heaven for him, and follow him through life and death. Humans and ghosts walk different paths, and the Heavenly Dao is merciless, so he will break the curse with his mortal body and ferry the world with tenderness! Exposing the hypocrisy of immortals and Buddhas, trampling the chaos of the mortal realm, Shen Yan starts as a doomed scholar and carves a unique path of mortal redemption! — Description from novelcodex.org