Global horror livestreams have arrived. Every instance lives and dies by its death rate, fear levels, and viewer retention, all to earn more recommendations. The day Shen Que, a former internet growth strategist, was laid off, his younger sister was selected to enter a horror instance. To save her, he volunteered to take her place, only to discover that he could see the instance's backend data, hidden from everyone else. From then on, while others fought to survive, he dismantled the rules; while others feared ghosts, he made the livestream audience laugh; while others cleared instances, he played them so hard they got demoted. Then Shen Que discovered that his mother's death in a horror instance three years earlier hadn't been an accident. It had been a beta test run by the supernatural platform. This time, he would tear up the rules governing the entire platform, root and branch.
