(Two male leads + plot-driven, not an infinite-flow story + mild horror + past and present lives + Chinese-style Cthulhu)
Hot-tempered, tsundere male ghost with boundless cultivation x emotionally steady doctor
Ye Chen, head of the laboratory department, has a bright future ahead of him, until he is suddenly caught up in an unusual case.
A coworker goes out to investigate and disappears without a trace for three days.
On the third day, as Ye Chen waits in the duty room, his coworker Chen Xing finally returns, bringing with him a corpse that needs to be dissected immediately.
The body on the dissection table is none other than the aunt who raised Ye Chen.
She sits up on the table and demands his life.
Terrified, Ye Chen flees, only to run straight into a wedding and become the new bride of Zhong Lan, a male ghost.
From then on, Ye Chen enters a whole new world:
For generations, people have lived inside sealed coffins to suppress the restless gates;
The eternally lush greenery turns out to be a man-eating banyan tree;
A secret realm hung with human skin at every turn…
Behind what seems like an endless ordeal lies the ending Zhong Lan prepared for himself with his own hands long ago.
It's strange that the protagonist doesn't seem to have much affection for the dominant partner; they're currently in a exploitative relationship. It feels like he's having an affair with someone else. Earlier, it was said that his relationship with his aunt wasn't great, but later he becomes overly obsessed with whether she's alive or dead.