Containment: From the Start, I Have a Hungry Ghost

[Traditional Supernatural Horror | Ensemble Cast and Containment | Subverting the Tropes | Urban Strange Tales | Comeback | Episodic Stories] Graduate student Dang Xuan is so broke he isn’t even afraid of ghosts. Looking for a bargain, he rents a place for just 300 yuan. On his first night there, a child appears in the mirror. Half-asleep, Dang Xuan watches as the child reaches into his chest and pulls out his intestines. Terrified out of his mind, Dang Xuan starts packing to run, only to find an old book made of parchment hidden in a secret compartment in the wardrobe: The Ghost Register. The book says that ghost arts are fierce and overpowering, capable of suppressing every other art under heaven. Its blank pages can be used to contain ghosts. He tries practicing them, and actually manages to capture the little hungry ghost that pulled out his intestines. Once captured, the ghost clings to his leg and calls him Dad. He names it Bao Bao. Half a step from becoming a blue-eyed ghost, it becomes his very first enforcer. Before he can even celebrate, the wealthy Shen Kun comes knocking. “My villa is haunted. Two hundred thousand yuan. Will you help?” Dang Xuan goes. At midnight, ghosts pack every room. He lights a cigarette and asks Bao Bao, “Hungry?” Bao Bao grins viciously, revealing its deathly face, and charges in. Afterward, Shen Kun points at him. “Is your son a ghost? Or is your wife a ghost? You don’t spare even ghosts?” Dang Xuan ignores him. He’s thinking about something else... If he can capture one, he can capture a whole group. And if he can capture ghosts, he can also capture the people who deal with them. Supernatural incidents are on the rise, and extraordinary people each have their own special skills. Dang Xuan decides to build an organization and bring them all under his command. With the Ghost Register in hand, the world is mine.