The Child Raised by Ghosts

My name is Si Yu. I'm an abandoned orphan who should have frozen or starved to death in my swaddling clothes. A kind ghost found me and raised me. For fifteen years, she used her domain to shield me from every storm in the human world. I couldn't read, and I didn't understand the world. I lived in a world where she was all I knew. Then Wu Chen came along, showed me the human world, taught me to speak, and helped me truly become a “person.” When I was fifteen, Uncle Wu pushed me into becoming a ghost tamer. But just as I was given a new life, I faced the greatest despair of all. My mother was slowly fading away. I threw myself into missions, saving up contributions and trading them for resources, all to keep her with me. But I gradually discovered a much colder rule: kind ghosts are easily tainted by evil spirits, losing control and turning into something else. Headquarters' ironclad rule is simple: better to kill an innocent than let a threat slip through. Kindness is no crime, yet everyone believes it deserves death. I can destroy evil spirits, but I don't want to lose the only family I have. People everywhere tame evil spirits, yet can't even tolerate one kind ghost. So I walked a path no one had ever taken, from ancient times to the present. I made a pact with a ghost and became the first person in the world to do so. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.