Zhao Xie was the ultimate boss in an infinite-flow world. He only closed his eyes for a moment, but when he opened them again, he had become a newborn human baby.
Thanks to his father being recognized as the true young master of a wealthy family, he successfully became a third-generation rich kid. He occasionally filmed short vlogs of his daily life and shared them online, becoming a moderately popular influencer.
If his family didn't go bankrupt, he could have spent this life lazing around without a care.
He thought this life would be ordinary and uneventful. Who could have guessed it was actually a world of urban legends, where folk tales of the supernatural came true?
On the day of his twentieth birthday, his father gave him an entire building.
When he decided to see what it was like to be a landlord:
As soon as he went upstairs, he found a tenant's door wide open. The room was covered in talismans, and a group of people dressed in bizarre outfits were dancing energetically to exorcise evil spirits... or something like that?
A pair of legs in embroidered shoes swung in front of him. Their owner spoke in a disembodied voice: "They're all frauds. What ghosts? I've lived here for over a hundred years!"
Zhao Xie blinked, watching the nonhuman's ashen face and floating body as it pointed and gestured toward the tenant's home. After finishing its commentary, it even spat out a sunflower seed shell.
One day, some of his followers noticed that the blogger whose daily-life posts they'd been following had changed his style.
Embroidered shoes that appeared and vanished in the hallway;
Whose shadow was following me?
A strange eye growing on the back of my neck;
Someone invisible has appeared in my house...
Every video was so realistic and eerie, as if the person behind the camera had experienced it all firsthand. Countless viewers called his videos terrifying, shivered and hugged their blankets, yet couldn't stop watching.
Ordinary people still thought it was just a mockumentary with convincing details.
Videos filmed by Zhao Xie were frantically shared within the agencies handling high-risk paranormal incidents. To their utter shock and disbelief, they watched Zhao Xie swagger into forbidden zones with a one-hundred-percent fatality rate and drag out the terrifying lords to act in his videos.
At the end of one video, they heard a few tearful, terrified words: "The video's finished. Please don't eat me..."
Zhao Xie licked his lips. "Burp~"
There aren't many actors in this world who work for no pay, serve as free labor, and even volunteer to be a snack when the director gets hungry.
His live-in marriage partner, an amateur superstar and professional chef, came over with food to feed him. "Sweetheart, don't keep eating snacks. It's bad for you."
After the meal, Zhao Xie covered his swollen, chapped lips and couldn't help baring his teeth in a grimace.
Theme: Becoming rich and successful in life is hard, but being content and having your family safe and sound is the best life has to offer.