Northeastern Paranormal Tales: My Life as a Spirit Medium

Style: First-person narration, with self-deprecation, dark humor, and down-to-earth Northeastern Chinese dialect, blending the supernatural, suspense, folk customs, and the ways of human society.

Core premise: An ordinary young man from Northeast China who never believed in ghosts or gods is forced by an accident to "become a spirit medium," serving as a disciple of the spirit mediums and forming a bond with the "immortals," animal spirits. He is drawn into a bizarre supernatural world, and as he fulfills his duties to the spirits and resolves strange incidents, he gradually grows and uncovers the secrets of his own origins and the world of the spirits.