What’s it like to head down the mountain to buy instant noodles, then come back to find a female streamer exploring your own Taoist temple for ghosts?
Gu Qingxuan says:
At first, he was furious.
Then he saw the livestream donations and suddenly thought his temple’s incense offerings might still be salvageable.
And so, the internet’s most absurd ghost-hunting duo came into being:
A poor Taoist priest who catches ghosts,
And a female streamer who gets into trouble and draws viewers.
A figure appears in the ancestral hall.
A pale hand reaches up from an abandoned well.
A hotel elevator opens by itself.
A school auditorium stages an opera in the middle of the night.
An amusement park announcement tells people to leave.
There’s always one extra person sitting in the hot spring pool.
Other people watch the livestream for thrills.
Gu Qingxuan watches for incense offerings, final payments, and money to repair the temple gate.
Viewers: “This has to be staged!”
Three minutes later:
“Priest, stop chatting and save them!”
Gu Qingxuan only wanted to look after a run-down Taoist temple and scrape together a little money from incense offerings.
Who knew the livestream would keep growing, the jobs would get pricier, the guesthouses would keep multiplying, and even the night fair at the foot of the mountain would need him to keep things under control?
The whole internet thinks he’s putting on an act. Only the ghosts know he’s for real.
