Twenty-four-year-old streamer Lin Wei is drowning in debt when she ventures into a village famous for ghost marriages. She plans to attract viewers by staging a “mock ghost wedding,” but the moment the red veil drops, she really does become bound to a dead husband from the late Qing and early Republic era: Zhang Ziyuan.
The son of a local gentry family, he was wronged a century ago. Gentle and refined, he remains trapped in the ancestral hall, visible only to her and the viewers in her livestream. She’s a sharp-tongued but softhearted penny-pincher, forced to livestream her “living together with a ghost” to pay off her debts. Yet amid the chaos of their daily life, she gradually glimpses the tip of the iceberg of the injustice he suffered a century ago.
When a secret to going viral becomes a pact between life and death, and livestream comments bear witness to a bond spanning lifetimes, will this ghost marriage that began in absurdity be a death warrant, or the key to breaking the deadlock?
(Note: Most of the names, platforms, and companies in this story are fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or organizations is purely coincidental.)
