Others perform rituals at their altars, while she livestreams and sells products. Others use peachwood swords to vanquish evil, while she swings Pikachu talismans and zaps century-old ghosts until they cry. Then one night, her livestream goes disastrously wrong.
A bronze bone bell steals souls, and a man in black robes arrives beneath the moon. He turns the tables and binds her wrist with her own red cord. “Miss Shen, you've had my Gu family's marriage contract for twenty years. Time to pay the interest.”
Later, everyone at the Supernatural Affairs Bureau knows:
The cold and heartless young master of the Gu family lets his wife use his family's cursed artifact as a piece of jewelry.
The gentle professor who always brings her sour plum candy smiles as he plunges a knife into his own heart.