Exhausted, listless city-office worker x healthy, down-to-earth, honest male ghost
After graduating, Jiang Youzhou joined a major corporation and became a corporate drone.
He feels as if someone is sucking all the yang energy out of him every day.
On the Ghost Festival, he grabs the male ghost living in his rented apartment.
After checking himself into the mental health department and consulting several masters, Jiang Youzhou accepts Chen Shaonian's existence.
He asks Chen Shaonian three questions:
First, if you're a ghost, does that mean you don't have to pay rent?
Second, if you're going to suck on me, can't you at least leave me with something? Don't suck me dry.
Third, what grudge do you have against me? Or is there some unfinished business you need to take care of?
Chen Shaonian answers his three questions:
First, what's rent?
Second, I didn't suck you dry! Are there other ghosts outside? Is that person called "Work" one of them?
Third, I don't know. At this rate,
maybe we were a couple in our past lives, and even kissed.
Jiang Youzhou: ...You people in feudal times were that open-minded?
This country ghost from the countryside doesn't know about paying three months' rent in advance, clocking in, or shampoo.
He doesn't even know who he is or why he became a ghost.
All he remembers is that in his past life, he was an honest man who washed his face with soap.
Jiang Youzhou only shows him how to order takeout and adjust the water heater.
The country ghost's eyes light up as he praises him. "You're amazing! You're the best person in the world!"
Jiang Youzhou says you should wear a suit to important occasions.
Chen Shaonian goes looking for a "suit" to wear, wanting Jiang Youzhou to see his real form.
When Jiang Youzhou gets home, he sees it and cries out, "Oh my god, why is there a Western ghost in my house?"
Chen Shaonian drapes himself in a ghostly skin. Thin on the outside, packed with muscle underneath.
When Jiang Youzhou sees his tall, burly ghost roommate, with broad shoulders, a thick back, a narrow waist, and long legs,
he realizes he's in trouble!
Once the male ghost has a physical body, he starts tying on an apron and cooking for him.
He's also a dutiful, home-loving ghost from feudal times.
At a young age, Jiang Youzhou finds himself living an old-fashioned life, with someone making him rice porridge and a warm bed waiting for him.
At night, the ghost pins Jiang Youzhou down in his sleep. Jiang can't catch his breath while the ghost helps himself to his yang energy.
Chen Shaonian: The sleep paralysis ghost is here!
Jiang Youzhou: Look at your build, then look at mine. Do you really have to ask?
Chen Shaonian: Why do you have more resentment than a ghost every day?
Jiang Youzhou: I have a job.
Chen Shaonian thinks Jiang Youzhou dislikes him. He believes city people all like tiny wives.
So he decides to leave Jiang Youzhou's life.
When Jiang Youzhou gets home from work, the ghost is gone. He panics.
Where could that country ghost of his have gone? He doesn't even know how to read traffic lights!
What if a Taoist catches him?
When Jiang Youzhou finds Chen Shaonian, the ghost is crying all by himself.
"Let's go home."
"Let's try to find out who you were when you were alive."
"And whether we really promised each other in our past lives that we'd be together in this one."
Reader's guide:
1. The listless office worker is the top, and the male ghost is the bottom.
2. The male ghost is literally a male ghost. He's cheerful and outgoing, not the gloomy, sinister type.
3. A lighthearted, healing, sweet little story. There will be a few tearjerker moments about their past life.
4. Each is the other's first love, and they are each other's only partner in body and heart.
5. Our honest ghost had a scumbag for a partner in his past life.
2026.8.9
Theme: Home is wherever my heart finds peace.
