The Years Nonhumans Cheered Me On [Showbiz]

Shen Yize, the Ghost King of Youdu, was jolted awake by heavenly lightning one day and came back to life in the body of a minor celebrity ranked eighteenth from the bottom.

The struggling actor was so bad at his job that he couldn't get any roles, so he had to scrape by by livestreaming.

The latest livestream trend: paranormal investigations.

When Shen Yize started streaming, he went to a famous haunted house in City A.

The viewers waited with bated breath.

Ten minutes passed, then half an hour. Shen Yize wandered through the entire house, and nothing happened.

The viewers were unhappy: Where's the ghost? Where's that huge ghost I was promised?

Shen Yize lowered his eyes to the screen and, not quite used to typing, sent a reply.

Streamer: They're scared of me. They don't dare come out.

Viewers: ???

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Though Shen Yize was a nobody in the entertainment industry, he had a huge fan following and a strangely high level of popularity.

They said he'd had no connections early in his career and made his debut in horror films. For some reason, a flood of comments saying how terrifying they were only drove his popularity higher.

What ordinary people saw when they watched him: The only thing worth looking at is his face. What kind of horror movie is this? It's a romance with the actors in costumes, and the bots are out in force.

What ordinary ghosts saw when they watched him: It's terrifying. The moment he stands there, my legs start shaking. I've never seen such a terrifying horror movie.

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When Shen Yize first debuted and was still obscure, an unknown, mysterious fan always topped the donation charts on every platform where he could receive tips, always crushing the runner-up by a huge margin. The fan also bought out entire theaters whenever one of the three horror films starring Shen Yize was released.

This superfan seemed to have an extraordinarily strong fondness for every horror movie Shen Yize starred in. They also invariably gave people the impression that they were watching those horror movies as love stories.

In a horror film where every character died, the superfan suddenly spoke up, demanding to know why the ghost in the movie kept trying to hang Shen Yize's character with a rope instead of tying him up in a bathtub and sending him roses.

Too rough, and somehow not rough enough.

Netizen: Damn.

Netizen: Excuse me, do you remember this is a horror movie? Are you imagining yourself as the murderous evil ghost?

1. An entertainment-industry story with supernatural powers and strange phenomena, though it might not be much of an entertainment-industry story, since there are only a few scenes set there. Title undecided.

2. The entertainment-industry parts and the occult stuff are mostly made up. The author doesn't follow celebrities or practice cultivation (runs away with a pot lid over their head). Don't read this as an occult novel. Think of it as urban cultivation, since the related parts are all made up by the author...

3. A morally corrupt, unhinged, fallen younger seme (though not really that much younger) x a shou who used to be a ghost and is his senior fellow disciple.

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