Taking Ghostly Orders Live: A Blood-Red Shroud for Every Donation

Paranormal streamer Lin Wu receives a blood-red wedding gown as an anonymous tip. After trying it on, a 48-hour countdown appears in her pupils. Then she discovers that all 100,000 viewers in her livestream have IDs belonging to the dead, that her beauty filter turns the living into corpses, that her power bank runs on human blood, and that audience polls decide how viewers die... Every clue points to the digital revival of the thousand-year-old exorcist opera, The Yin Soldiers Crossing the Road. Folklore scholar Jiang Ming barges into the frame wearing a bronze Nuo mask. "You've been chosen as the sacrificial bride. Every tip in your livestream..." "...is helping pay for your ghost wedding dowry." Now, her health bar is her remaining lifespan, likes speed up her death, and the top donor, who gifted 99 virtual coffins, is slowly crawling out through the phone's front-facing camera...