I Recover Corpses, Yet I Watch Celebrities Drown Without Helping

Zhihu: As a corpse retriever, should you save a celebrity who falls into the water while filming?

Chu Beixing is the last corpse retriever in the world. One day, while sailing on the Yellow River, he saw a celebrity accidentally fall into the water during a shoot. He did not try to save them, and waited until they had died before retrieving the corpse.

The incident unexpectedly spread online, sparking a huge controversy and drawing abuse from the entire internet.

A few days later, a reporter came to his door. "You watched someone drown and did nothing. Doesn't your conscience condemn you?"

Chu Beixing replied, "Those who retrieve corpses from the Yellow River have never retrieved the wicked, since ancient times!"

Corpse retrievers follow three rules about whom they will not retrieve. Break them, and you will surely suffer a backlash!

Chu Beixing couldn't be bothered to explain. He casually hauled up a living, kicking and thrashing green-faced corpse, leaving the reporter and viewers completely dumbfounded.

A few days later, a bombshell hit the trending topics:

Shocking! A celebrity falls into the Yellow River, and a mysterious man demands money for the body, drawing online abuse. Now the truth has taken a turn: the celebrity is suspected of committing a crime. Is this karma?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.