The Miserable Ghost Catcher’s Hilarious Ghost-Hunting Tales

Wang Xiaoer, a low-ranking ghost officer in the underworld, has a mediocre track record and often causes mishaps through carelessness. One day, reports of supernatural incidents start pouring in from the human world, and he is ordered to investigate. At an abandoned old house, he encounters a “woman in white.” Terrified, he nearly buckles at the knees, only to discover it is a mischievous little ghost who sneaked out to play with a white bedsheet wrapped around itself. Next, rumors of a haunting spread through a luxurious villa, terrifying the family with “paranormal activity.” Wang Xiaoer arrives and trades wits with a charlatan who has been staging the hauntings. The fraud uses glow-in-the-dark paint and fishing line to create “ghostly apparitions,” but Wang Xiaoer uses a few underworld gadgets to expose the trick. He also catches a real little ghost hiding there, hoping to possess a human body. Finally, a “mysterious shadow” prowls a gloomy hospital. Wang Xiaoer works up the courage to investigate, only to find a few trainee nurses dressed up as ghosts to conquer their fear, while accidentally setting off a malfunction in some old equipment. At a loss between laughter and tears, Wang Xiaoer helps them fix it and shares a few tips on “keeping ghosts away.” After all this, Wang Xiaoer not only exceeds his ghost-catching quota, but also earns the respect of his colleagues in the underworld with these hilarious misadventures. He comes to understand that most “ghostly happenings” in the human world reflect the many sides of human nature. With a pocketful of stories and hard-won growth, he continues to protect the order between the worlds of the living and the dead.