Perfectly Imperfect
(活出好命来)
In the afterlife, a new King of the Underworld strives to modernize the realm, but faces resistance from the powerful Fate-Weaving Hall, which controls reincarnation. To break their grip, he sends two undercover agents to expose the secrets within.
Cast
Jeffrey Xu
Chen Shucheng
James Seah
He Ying Ying
Cheryl Chou
Zhang Ze Tong
Bryan Wong
Paige Chua
Overview
In the afterlife, a new King of the Underworld strives to modernize the realm, but faces resistance from the powerful Fate-Weaving Hall, which controls reincarnation. To break their grip, he sends two undercover agents to expose the secrets within.
Seasons & Episodes
-
No ImageE1: Episode 1 0.0After dying in drag race practice, Luo Haoliang and Lu Yiming meet a familiar-looking soul reaper Xiaowen. She is tasked to free all new souls, who are then trapped by Earth God. The CEO of the underworld drinks Mengpo soup mistakenly when confronted by Earth God. Xiaowen gets new orders to arrest all freed souls. She lets Yiming go but shoots Haoliang who pleads to return to the mortal world.
-
No ImageE2: Episode 2 0.0Haoliang realises Xiaowen was the teacher who died saving him. They acknowledge each other. She adopts three kids and recycles junk. Haoliang gives her items from home and lies about finding them on the streets. He befriends the kids. Hei and Bai trick the CEO into gazing into the mirror of past lives. They find out the underworld is overheating from overpopulation and may blow up anytime.
-
No ImageE3: Episode 3 0.0The CEO sends underworld residents to the mortal world as surveyors to ease the overpopulation. Yiming and his father nearly get killed by harassing souls. Jingjing sees Yiming’s soul leave his body and drags it back. Yiming awakes, delighted to see Jingjing whom he hasn’t contacted for five years. Jingjing refuses to stay in touch. Xiaowen arrives to bring a shocked Yiming to the underworld.
-
No ImageE4: Episode 4 0.0An upset Yiming realises Jingjing died five years ago. Jingjing is moved when he brings flowers to her grave and sings for her. Jingjing and Haoliang are sent to Weavers’ Hall to spy on Di Jude and Lady Hua. Robbed of his weaver’s spot, Dai Gonggong vents his anger on Xiaowen and gets her injured. Haoliang’s ambush on Dai Gonggong fails. A masked Xiaowen saves him. The pair ends up in danger.
-
No ImageE5: Episode 5 0.0Xiaowen joins the CEO’s Project Zero to learn why young adults won’t procreate. The CEO finds his old boss, the reborn Yiming, in the mortal world. Haoliang is traumatised from seeing Xiaowen die in a lightning strike 30 years ago. Xiaowen tries curing him. Jude gives Haoliang a slipshod lesson and tasks him to weave the evil spirit Jia Chou’s fate. Conflict ensues. Haoliang is nearly reborn.
-
No ImageE6: Episode 6 0.0Xiaowen saves Haoliang in time and is driven out of Weavers’ Hall by Pei Lao, whose mood swings force Haoliang and Jingjing into quitting their spy work. The CEO convinces them to join Project Zero. To help Jingjing sneak into Pei Lao’s secret chamber and install a camera, Haoliang messes up the woven fates and incites a riot. An upset Xiaowen renounces the half-hearted Haoliang as her student.
-
No ImageE7: Episode 7 0.0The CEO blackmails Pei Lao into returning the frozen Lethe Shard and Fate-Changing Bead. A vengeful Pei Lao vows to rid Xiaowen. Haoliang gets Mengpo soup on himself instead of Pei Lao, regressing to an 8-year-old kid mentally. Xiaowen realises she’s wronged Haoliang and they reconcile. He applies himself to weaving. At a party, a jealous Lady Hua pushes Xiaowen, who falls and kisses Haoliang.
-
No ImageE8: Episode 8 0.0To counter Pei Lao’s ploy, the CEO has Yiming convince the residents to reincarnate as pets. A shy Xiaowen avoids a lovestruck Haoliang after the “kiss”. Dai Gonggong tries to kill Xiaowen. Haoliang uses Mengpo soup on him, then brings him to the mortal world. He discovers his cousin plotting a posthumous birth and tries to warn his mother in her dream. Haoliang gets stabbed protecting Xiaowen.
-
No ImageE9: Episode 9 0.0Yiming pens songs to urge residents to reincarnate as pets. Sparks fly when Jingjing learns that he wrote love songs for her. Xiaowen comforts Haoliang who realises two souls got reborn disabled as he ruined their woven fates. He possesses Chenggong to ask his mother to set up a trust for them. Qinqing threatens to leave with his child. When he tries to stop her, he is accused of being a scammer.
-
No ImageE10: Episode 10 0.0With Yiming’s help, Jingjing receives her first burnt offering from her family. Grateful for his chocolates, she knits him a sweater. Pei Lao incites the clans to fight for their rights to be reborn as humans. In turn, the CEO declares they must state their ambitions in their reborn life. Haoren fails to seize the inheritance. His parrot, who is the reborn Jia Chou, helps him fight Haoliang.
-
No ImageE11: Episode 11 0.0Haoliang asks Xiaowen to try on wedding gowns for Lady Hua and fantasises proposing to her. A guilt-ridden Xiaowen realises her fiancé Guanghan has stayed single and cared for her parents for 30 years. Haoliang tries to get Guanghan to move on. Xiaowen is touched. As things between them heat up, Lady Hua accuses Xiaowen of seducing her student and bribes residents into condemning her as immoral.
-
No ImageE12: Episode 12 0.0Xiaowen flees to the mortal world to avoid Haoliang. She decides to be reborn as Guanghan’s daughter to repay him. A demoralised Haoliang finds Xiaowen’s letter and realises her intentions. Once reborn, Xiaowen will no longer be his teacher. They embrace and kiss goodbye, vowing to meet again in 30 years. Haoliang weaves the perfect fate for Xiaowen, which Lady Hua switches out for the worst one.