“I'm just a small-time streamer who makes a living broadcasting superstitious nonsense. Then the ‘seven days of bloodshed’ prediction I made offhand came true for the CEO of a multinational corporation, and the National Security Bureau showed up asking me to help with an investigation. That's when I realized that the stories I made up were coming true.”
Lin Shun graduated from a third-rate media college and scraped by on short-video platforms by inventing “urban legends” and “feng shui mysticism.” Then one day, a disaster prediction he casually made up during a livestream came true with uncanny accuracy for a business tycoon, and the video racked up more than ten million views. A special operations unit from the National Security Bureau came knocking. Su Qingleng, a technical specialist, laid report after report of “predictions come true” before him. “Mr. Lin, of the 137 ‘future events’ you've mentioned in your streams over the past three months, 89 have occurred in ways science can't explain. We need you to explain this, or work with us to keep this ‘ability’ under control.”
From then on, Lin Shun is forced to get involved in one bizarre incident after another: using feng shui to unravel a multinational financial conspiracy, using folk legends to locate a missing scientist, and “livestreaming a ghost hunt” for millions of viewers while actually cracking a high-tech crime. He keeps playing the charlatan on camera while secretly helping the country resolve supernatural cases. Then one day, a top-secret file is placed before him: “Lin Shun. Ability rating: SSS. Codename: Modern Imperial Preceptor.”
