The Madman's Asylum's Movie Emperor

Chinese-style horror + sheer nonsense from start to finish + a chaotic stew of metaphysics and science. No showbiz elements.

Bai Tang is a psychological counselor, but he also has a secret identity: actor.

He recently landed his first role, playing a divine official who hunts ghosts in Taipingjing. Since filming takes place at night, Bai Tang can keep working his daytime job.

It's a little tiring, but at least the show is about to wrap up.

He doesn't know that his hospital file says:

Name: Bai Tang

Diagnosis: Severe delusional disorder

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Xi Yu is a divine official who hunts ghosts in Taipingjing. He only works at night and rests during the day.

Lately, he keeps dreaming that he's sitting in a bright white room, wearing blue-and-white striped clothes and answering strange questions.

A series of murders suddenly rocks the bustling capital. The cases seem connected to an occult formation, so Heaven sends Xi Yu and his partner to help the humans solve them.

But just as Xi Yu sees through everything, his identity as a divine official is suppressed, and he can no longer return to the house in the daytime...

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Bai Tang begins filming his next show, playing a tomb raider.

At the same time, Xi Yu successfully performs a ritual to reunite his soul.

Bai Tang: ?

Are we filming two shows at once?

Bai Tang decides to use his own efforts to get more screen time.

But as he frantically tries to add scenes, all the characters he has played start crossing over, and the plot becomes a complete mess.

In the end...

#What do you do when an actor's overlapping filming schedules cause the world to collapse?#

1. A story full of nonsense, with ghosts and spirits as well as unknown creatures and mechanisms. These are things the author personally likes. There's metaphysics, and the horror level may vary.

2. Not a typical episodic story, not a typical quick transmigration story. You'll never know when a show is going to end.

3. The everyday life of the "fake patient" in an insane asylum and Bai the counselor in the real world [is included].

My completed no-couple novels, Boss Cards in the Infinite Escape Room and Days Working at a Medium's Restaurant, are available in my author profile.

A pure-love novel available for preorder: After the Mutation, I Win by Breathing

Mutations are happening all over the world. Endless, ever-growing tentacles crawl over apartment walls, and eyeballs churn in the puddles on the streets after the rain...

Sentinel squads made up of "B-grade humans" have been formed in response. They are sent into unknown environments to test the effects of contamination on the human body. When the contamination reaches a dangerous level that causes them to mutate, they are executed, and their vital signs before death are recorded.

Sentinels complete an average of no more than five missions.

Name: Tang Ze

Missions completed: 38

Note: An ordinary human with no aptitude. His timid personality and good luck have helped him evade mutation attacks several times. He has contributed little to environmental testing and can be sent out when numbers are needed.

In the mission footage, Tang Ze cowers in a corner, trembling. The moment the surveillance feed cuts out, he lifts his head, his eyes full of disdain and mockery.

After a highly contaminated mission, an S-class mutant takes up residence in his body. He recovers his strength by absorbing the mutant's life force.

He refuses to be an innocent cannon fodder. Once the S-class mutant inside him revives, he will stand at the top of the world and crush underfoot all those who once treated him like a weed.

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Fang Xuyu, captain of a special operations squad made up of A-grade humans, discovers Tang Ze's file during a sweep. He realizes that Tang Ze hasn't survived through good luck, but because he has a rare purifying ability.

When Fang Xuyu summons Tang Ze for a talk, Tang spends the whole way thinking about how to quietly get rid of the man who has discovered his secret.

Unexpectedly, Fang Xuyu says, "People used to put pothos plants in newly renovated homes to absorb formaldehyde. I think your lungs are like a pothos plant. They can keep the pollutants you breathe in inside your body, reducing the impact on everyone else."

Tang Ze: ...That sounds kind of right, but also kind of wrong.

Fang Xuyu: "Gas masks aren't 100 percent effective. I've had a lot of missions lately, and I need someone to help lower my contamination levels. You don't have to do anything. Just breathe nearby."

Fang Xuyu: "It'll definitely harm your health, but you'd be doing the same thing in the Sentinel squad. At least if you come with me, you'll get better food and days off."

Tang Ze: "...I'm in."

Fang Xuyu is a high-ranking captain. He only goes to places with high contamination levels, so there are bound to be plenty of high-level mutants. Tang Ze thinks to himself.

And Fang Xuyu wants him to take deep breaths? That's exactly what he wants.

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The first cross-rank partnership in the squad proves unstoppable on missions.

Fang Xuyu: "My assistant can't even hurt a fly. I have to protect him."

Until one day, the S-class mutant inside Tang Ze absorbs enough life force and suddenly reveals its true form during a mission.

Fang Xuyu watches the mutants in the room get crushed with ease, sucks in a sharp breath, and slams the door shut.

"I must be dreaming."

"Right? You're the one who can't even hurt a fly, right?"

Tang Ze, now three times Fang Xuyu's height and surrounded by an evil aura, nods.

"That's right, Captain. Hurry and protect me."

A fearsome flower pretending to be a pothos, the tough bottom x a cold, stingy attack who is actually a silly puppy

Theme: Use science to dispel superstition.