The ferryman was a Chinese web novel written by Wang Yu. The novel told the story of a legend. The protagonist of the story was a warrior named Wang Sheng. He got a mysterious book that allowed him to travel through different time and space. Wang Sheng used this book to travel to a world called the ferryman. The ferryman was an ancient profession responsible for ferrying their souls from the netherworld to the living world. In this world, Wang Sheng met many interesting characters, including a girl named Xiao Hong. Her soul was sent to the netherworld by a ferryman and then resurrected. Wang Sheng also had a love story with a boy named Duan Yu. Duan Yu was an immortal, and his girlfriend was the Eastern Emperor Taiyi. They had broken up for some reason. Duan Yu came to the human world and met Wang Sheng. The two fell in love and got married. In the end, Wang Sheng used his book to travel to another world and met his old friends there. They took risks and solved a series of problems together, and finally returned to the real world.