Taoist saint Lui Dong-bin approaches the gate of the judiciary Yue Shou and predicts his imminent death. The wife and son report this to Yue. He tells the servant to hang the Taoist at the gate. Soon, Yue becomes sorry for him, he is ready to free Taoist, but it turns out that he was already removed by a passerby. They grab a passerby. Yue threatens him with punishment, showing ingenuity in finding pretexts for reprisal. But the servant finds out that in front of them is not a simple peasant, but the imperial auditor Han Wei-gun. From fear, Yue falls ill.

Yue feels the nearness of death. His subordinate Sun Fu comes with gifts from Han, who liked the documents compiled by Yue. Yue asks Sun Fu to take care of his family, and then instructs his wife and son for a long time to comply with the rules of house building. Taking an oath from them, he dies.

The lord of hell Yan-wang is waiting for Yue Shaw, for whom a cauldron of boiling oil is being prepared. Lu Dong-bin appears and saves him - Yue is marked at birth as a future righteous man. But since his body has already been burned, he will have to incarnate in the newly dead butcher Lee.

Yue rises. Now he has a new family, he is lame and walks with an iron staff. Having figured out what happened, he decides to secretly return to his former family.

Li-Yue (as he is now called) does not recognize his home - he was repaired by order of Han Wei-gong in memory of him. "Widow" is not seen with any man (as Yue punished) and, of course, drives a lame ragged man. But Li-Yue proves that he is her husband. Meanwhile, his new “wife” and “father” have come running. They demand that he return to "his" house, and after refusal they will be brought to the judge. Han Wei-gun is not able to figure out what happened. Everything is explained by Lu Dong-bin, who takes with him Liu-Yue, who has comprehended the vanity of the world. There is a meeting with celestials glorifying a new saint.