Senior Brother: After I Die, You Can Check Me Off the Roll Call

Maodong, the top female Taoist priest of the Maoshan Shangqing Sect, keeps having her livestream shut down for “promoting feudal superstition.” That is, until her fellow disciple Jason, drunk one night, says, “When I’m gone, I’ll serve you as a spirit soldier and bite through the servers.” That very night, Jason spits out a blood-soaked paper effigy that can run. His fate record says he has only three months left to live. To save his life, the two are forced into a “temporary spirit-soldier pact”: every month, they must lay 49 vengeful spirits to rest to hit their quota. From then on, the livestream takes a bizarre turn: A starving ghost refuses to leave until someone orders takeout. A vengeful spirit from the Republican era demands they livestream the sale of his burial goods. The comments flood with, “Is that white shadow behind the priest an effect?” Maodong draws talismans and curses, “This batch of vengeful spirits is harder to deal with than the platform moderators!” But he doesn’t notice that Jason’s shadow is starting to look more and more like the young commander of the ghost army from a hundred years ago...