Exorcising Ghosts on Livestream: My Grandpa Really Is a Charlatan

Name: Exorcising Ghosts on Livestream: My Grandpa Really Is a Charlatan
Author: Big Ideas from a Little Nobody

直播驱鬼：我爷爷真是神棍

by Big Ideas from a Little Nobody (小人物大想法)

Status: Completed
Length: 124k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Mystery High-Concept
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[Livestreaming + Yin Eight Sects + goofy master-and-disciple antics + no female lead] Reborn into this world, Lin Du inherits only one thing: three notebooks of scams and a box of fake ritual implements left behind by his con-artist grandfather. His grandfather, Lin Banxian, was a famous local swindler who never encountered a real ghost in his life. Lin Du learned his “craft” from him as a child: draw talismans by tracing templates, chant spells to a rap beat, and perform rituals using modified square-dance moves. On his twentieth birthday, Lin Du starts a livestream, ready to take up the family business. He draws a calming talisman for someone using one of his grandfather’s “tricks”… The talisman paper catches fire on its own. Blue flames. Comments: Master! Lin Du: No, my grandpa really was a fraud… Even stranger things follow. He recites one of his grandfather’s made-up rap spells, and the ghost actually runs away. A copper coin his grandfather bought as a fake lights up. He follows the notebook’s instructions to “never take this seriously” and doodles a talisman, and somehow everything he draws works. The System tells him: You have the rarest Eight Gates bloodline of the Yin Eight Sects, seen only once in a thousand years. Your “unorthodox methods” are actually a lost form of chaotic magic. Comments: Master, will you take disciples? Lin Du: No. The top donor tips him 100,000 yuan: Take me. Lin Du: …Fine. Later, he takes on eight disciples: a rich kid who uses Excel to study talisman success rates, a socially anxious girl whose paper effigies can walk, a former Taobao scammer whose talismans are too precise to work, a funeral home makeup artist who treats corpses like coworkers… Every one of them is stranger than the last. Later still, a former underworld bailiff who delivers takeout tells him the underworld blew up a thousand years ago. The Wheel of Reincarnation shattered, the Six Paths fell silent, and the dead have nowhere to go. Lin Du looks at the five million followers in his livestream and says something that sets the whole internet abuzz: “Since the underworld is gone, we’ll just build a new one.”

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