The Grand Ghost Trade Market [Cyberpunk]

Ling Jiu started a company called "Major Ghost Trading Market."

As the name suggests, it buys and sells malicious ghosts.

Armed with her family's inherited but half-baked exorcism skills, Ling Jiu's ghost-collecting business was thriving.

And she didn't just buy malicious ghosts from others. She hunted them herself, too.

Who would have thought that a supplier's bad information would lead Ling Jiu to stumble into a malicious ghost's crime scene, where the district security officer who arrived afterward arrested her as the murderer?

In the interrogation room, Ling Jiu pleaded earnestly, "Officer, I really didn't kill anyone. The victim was already dead when I got there."

"According to the information we have, you live in the central district, but the crime scene is in the lower district, a hundred thousand li away. Why would you go there?"

In the end, Ling Jiu had no choice but to reveal her identity and hand the security officer her carefully designed business card:

Major Ghost Trading Market Limited Liability Company

General Manager: Ling Jiu

The business card was tossed back.

"If you were there looking for a malicious ghost, why didn't you leave once you found no trace of one? Why stay at the scene and observe the victim's body?"

"Ah..."

Ling Jiu held the business card between her fingers and turned it over, revealing the words on the back:

"Are you dead yet?" Let us help you depart in peace, with confidence, and with a smile!

"This is a new supplementary service from my company, a comprehensive care package that covers body recovery, preparation for burial, funeral services, and spiritual rites. It's only 198 a month. Buy three quarters and get one free. Sign up for a lifetime membership now and you'll also get a 20% off card."

"Would you like to hear more?"

*Chinese-style cyberpunk

Blurb posted on 2026.3.16, video evidence preserved

Theme: Resist injustice, resist fate