Shen Xingluo spent eighteen years as a wild country kid before suddenly being told: You're the real young master of the wealthy Gu family.
Too bad the Gu family didn't want him.
His mother thought he was uncouth, his father thought he was vulgar, and the only person the whole family cared about was the perfect heir they'd raised for eighteen years: Gu Yanchen.
Shen Xingluo: Fine, then. Could you at least give me a house to live in?
The Gu family waved a hand and dumped a haunted house in the suburbs on him, one where three owners had died.
On his first night there, Shen Xingluo got up to use the bathroom and found three ghosts floating in the living room.
A hanged ghost swayed from the chandelier. "New here?"
A drowned ghost poked its head out of the bathtub. "You're pretty good-looking."
Another was crouched in the corner, drawing circles on the wall. That was the one who'd jumped to his death.
Shen Xingluo: "...Hello?"
The next day, Shen Xingluo started a livestream.
[I'm Telling Crime Stories in a Haunted House: As Told by the People Involved]
He leaned back in a grand chair, brewed some tea, and started chatting.
"Today's story is about the first owner, a former partner of the Gu family. Come on, tell them yourself."
A translucent figure leaned toward the microphone from off-camera and spoke in a hollow voice. "Actually, I didn't jump on my own that day..."
The chat went wild.
[??? Did the streamer hire a voice actor??]
[Why did that microphone just turn to the side by itself??]
[Help!! That's the actual person involved!! Aaaaaah, ]
The livestream exploded overnight.
The entire internet was speculating: What kind of constitution did this streamer have? Why were the ghosts in the haunted house lining up to tell him gossip?
Gu Yanchen, who was involved in the story, saw it, too.
He looked at the face on the screen, a person with no blood relation to him, and gave a cold laugh. "Putting on a ghost show."
Then
He sent a grand gift.
Gu Yanchen: My finger slipped.
Later, Shen Xingluo's livestreams got more and more outrageous.
The ghosts nearly came to blows over the microphone.
The hanged ghost complained, "I died unjustly! Tell my story first!"
The drowned ghost protested, "Your case is already solved, but mine isn't!"
The jumper silently handed over a note: I have dirt on the current chairman of the Gu family. Let me go first.
Shen Xingluo: ? Even the ghost world does this kind of thing?
Gu Yanchen realized he was tuning in to the livestream every day.
Watching the younger brother who'd been sabotaged by the entire wealthy social circle calmly sip tea and turn the tables perfectly, he suddenly realized
This guy wasn't a pushover. He was a living King of Hell.
And he might have started falling for him.
Until one day, Shen Xingluo suddenly disappeared during a livestream.
Only a group of ghosts floated around in front of the camera, panicking:
"We're doomed! Our streamer got kidnapped!"
"The kidnapper has a fierce aura. I can't see where he is!"
"Hurry, hurry, send a dream! Send it to that big spender who keeps tipping!"
That night, Gu Yanchen jolted awake from a nightmare.
In the dream, the three ghosts stood in a row at his bedside and spoke in unison:
"Young Master Gu, your wife is in danger! Hurry and save him!"
Gu Yanchen: "...He's my younger brother."
The hanged ghost: "Now's not the time to be stubborn!"
The drowned ghost: "He's been kidnapped, and you're still being coy?"
The jumper silently handed over a note: Are you going or not? If you don't, I'll jump right in front of you.
Later, after Shen Xingluo was rescued, the first thing he did was start streaming again.
The chat flooded with messages: [Please, tell us your story together!!]
Before Shen Xingluo could say a word, three voices drifted up behind him:
The hanged ghost: "Tell them! You have to! They're the first living couple I've shipped!"
The drowned ghost: "I've watched the part where he rescued him from the kidnappers thirty times!"
The jumper silently handed over a note: The night they kissed for the first time, I spent the whole night shipping them from the ceiling.
Shen Xingluo: "...Could you have a little more ghostly dignity?"
Gu Yanchen pulled him into his arms and smiled faintly at the camera.
"You can hear the story. Just subscribe first."
(Main characters' names are still being brainstormed.)
Theme: The truth never comes late, according to the ghosts.