The Ghost King's Little One Becomes a God on an Occult Livestream

[My Stepmom Is Taking the Whole Family to the Top] is now serializing! Please add it to your reading list~

Blurb:

Jiang Wu was the newly appointed Little Ghost King of the Underworld. She was already three hundred years old, but looked no older than three. Without Heaven's investiture, she couldn't become the true ruler of the netherworld.

The Judge gave her the terrible idea of going to the mortal realm to gain experience and earn merit. Jiang Wu set off full of confidence.

And then she became the shame of the Jiang family of the occult world: Jiang Wu, an incompetent little nobody with an unknown father, an unconscious mother, a dull mind, and a fragmented soul.

Her family sent her to the world's most famous spirit-medium reality show, Summoning Spirits, under the pretext of giving her experience, hoping to use vengeful spirits to get rid of her.

Communing with spirits? Catching ghosts? That's right up my alley!

Jiang Wu's eyes lit up.

But once the show started...

Jiang Wu, a three-hundred-year-old toddler: This is exhausting. How am I supposed to fight ghosts with these tiny arms and legs?

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Backstage at a theater, a fan ghost dangled upside down and stopped a popular idol. "Oppa, now I can be with you twenty-four hours a day."

The Little Ghost King grabbed the ghost by the hair and dragged him away, her expression stern. "Stalking is wrong. Keep your distance from his personal life and support his work instead!"

At a century-old mansion, while the other guests were chased by vengeful spirits and screamed in terror, Jiang Wu rode on the neck of an evil spirit like it was a horse. "Dummy, you're going the wrong way!"

The Little Ghost King clenched her fist. "The Underworld needs to promote traffic laws, and it can't wait!"

In a desolate graveyard, the Zombie King, sealed away for a thousand years, howled at the moon. Then came the patter of footsteps behind him. The Zombie King turned around with a fierce expression, then froze in shock. "Y-Your Majesty?"

The Little Ghost King covered her mouth, giggling, and beckoned to the other contestants. "Look, this weird old man can bark like a dog!"

*

Jiang Wu didn't just catch ghosts and ward off evil. She also kept sending the show to the top of trending searches in all sorts of ways, causing a massive upheaval in the industry.

#Shocking! Former girl group leader claimed she was studying abroad, but she'd actually been dead for years

#Influencer agency owner used sorcery to steal people's lifespans, beware workplace bullying

#Major cultural relic smuggling ring busted, and the mastermind was a tycoon from Sang Country!

*

Before filming, viewers in the comments thought Jiang Wu was a burden, a tiny person with short legs who ran slowly. The other contestants avoided her too.

After filming, everyone was saying, "Wu is so cute! Wu is so amazing! Come into Auntie's arms!" The other contestants stuck close to Jiang Wu too. "Boss, protect me! I'll be your horse!"

Jiang Wu puffed up her cheeks. "Don't call me cute. I'm the king!"

*

In the mortal realm, the occult families revered Jiang Wu, the official spirit-hunting group took orders from her, and industry bigwigs offered her real gold and silver in exchange for her guidance.

In the Underworld, the Judge led the way in cheering on his boss, and the ghosts of the entire netherworld were Wu's devoted fans, liking and moderating comments from start to finish.

Someone who had cursed Jiang Wu that afternoon dreamed that night of his long-deceased grandfather beating him with a shoe sole. "You unfilial brat! Get online and apologize right now!"

Jiang Wu's response: "What's the point of an apology? I want merit, lots and lots of merit! The more merit I earn, the taller I'll grow!"

Wait, how did those aunties make me act like a little kid too?

Reader's Guide:

1. #I'm the Ghost King, my fists are the biggest, who needs reason# My take on occult fiction. The setting is highly fictionalized, and the related knowledge comes from the internet plus the author's imagination. Don't take it seriously, believe in science ().

2. Wu won't have a romance plot while she's still little. My girl is focused on becoming a deity! There will be some family and friendship plots, and there may be couples among the contestants.

3. Please respect one another. You don't need to tell me if you're dropping the book. No writing advice, please. Don't mention other novels in my comments, and don't mention my novel elsewhere. I'll delete those comments~

(Original blurb screenshotted on June 16, 2022)

---Pre-release: My Husband Who Died in Battle Has Returned

Soft yet resilient concubine-born daughter X outwardly proper and aloof, but actually ruthless, obsessive, and shameless top scholar

[See how the refined and proper top scholar becomes a substitute for love, pretending to be her dead husband and climbing through her window at night]

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Xu Shizheng, the fourth concubine-born daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites.

Born with skin like jade and a face like a flower, she could only live in the shadow of her legitimate elder sister, carefully surviving in the inner household.

When she turned sixteen, her stepmother arranged for her to marry the promising young General Zhou, the Empress's nephew.

Everyone in the capital praised Madam Xu for her virtue.

Only Xu Shizheng felt uneasy.

General Zhou was the husband her stepmother had painstakingly chosen for her legitimate elder sister. Why had he suddenly become Xu Shizheng's husband instead?

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On their wedding day, an urgent message arrived from the border. The groom set out to war by imperial decree without even lifting the bridal veil.

A month later came the news that he had died in battle. Xu Shizheng had barely entered the household before becoming a widow.

The emperor posthumously made General Zhou the Marquis of Zhenbei, and Xu Shizheng became the Marchioness. She would have to find an heir to carry on her late husband's family line, with no chance of returning to her family and remarrying.

On the forty-ninth night after her husband's death, Xu Shizheng was hiding beneath the covers, crying over her miserable fate, when the back window suddenly opened.

"My lady, I'm home."

Xu Shizheng still had crumbs from a pastry on her face. ...Was this a zombie?!

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By day, Xu Shizheng managed the marquis's household, outwitted the Zhou family's awful relatives, and worked to fit into the capital's high society.

At night, she had to share intimate moments with her "dead husband," who appeared and vanished mysteriously as he carried out secret missions for the emperor. She never got a full night's sleep.

She lay sprawled on the bed, yawning over and over, her soft, broken voice on the verge of tears as she asked when her husband would be able to come home openly.

His hands never stopped moving. He gently brushed her hair and back with his fingertips, saying, "A Yuan, hold on a little longer. It won't be much longer."

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Until one day, she caught sight of a red official robe on the street, along with a breathtaking profile.

Someone told her it was Lord Xue Lin, the only son of the Grand Princess and the newly crowned top scholar.

Xu Shizheng frowned. That top scholar... why did he look so much like the husband who came into her room every night?

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Before Xu Yining got engaged, she had a dream. She dreamed that she would become a widow after marrying General Zhou. Unable to bear the loneliness, she secretly met with another man. Her mother-in-law caught them and reported them, enraging the Empress. Xu Yining was confined to an estate in the countryside, where she suffered terribly and eventually died of cold and hunger.

Meanwhile, her timid concubine-born younger sister, who had once been the least noticeable person in the family, was casually betrothed by their father to a newly appointed jinshi. She left the capital with him when he was posted elsewhere, and a few years later he earned great credit for managing the waterways. He was repeatedly promoted and became a second-rank waterway commissioner before turning thirty, outranking even their father by two grades.

Xu Yining did everything she could to switch betrothals with her younger sister. Sure enough, not long afterward, news arrived that General Zhou had died at the border. Xu Yining laughed aloud at home.

But she waited and waited, and not only did she fail to see her younger sister suffering as a widow, she watched her thrive in the capital as the Marchioness.

Then, at a court assembly, the Grand Princess's only son, the newly crowned top scholar, actually asked the emperor to marry her widowed younger sister, despite his brotherly bond with General Zhou?

Xu Yining broke down. After being posted away from the capital, she pestered her husband every day to work harder. "Go manage those waterways already!"

Her husband was utterly confused. He had studied hard for more than ten years, but what did he know about waterworks?

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Reader's Guide:

Sisters switch betrothals / coercive romance / sex first, love later / stole his brother's wife / after his identity is revealed, he pursues his wife

The male lead is really awful! But he'll get down on his knees and beg to be the heroine's dog :)

Romance-focused, with the heroine's career gradually developing later on.

A fictional setting, and every detail serves the plot.

Original inspiration from February 2023, with a screenshot saved as proof.

---Pre-release: Marrying into a Marquis's Household with My Best Friend to Gossip and Watch the Show (Transmigration into a Book)

Shen Lingyue, a college student with a delicate constitution, died after staying up all night gaming. She transmigrated into the legitimate daughter of the Vice Minister of Rites in the Great Ye Dynasty, who was about to marry the second son of the Marquis of Changning.

When she arrived, the whole family was furious about the arranged marriage.

There was only one reason: the eldest legitimate son of the marquis was marrying Zhou Yanyi, the eldest daughter of the General of Xuanwei, who had been the original Shen Lingyue's mortal enemy.

Rumor had it that the two had hated each other since childhood and had fought, openly and behind the scenes, for over a decade. Now they were both marrying into the same marquis's household as sisters-in-law?

Shen's mother wailed, "My daughter has been frail since childhood. How can she possibly beat that wild girl from the military family? She'll even have to call her elder sister-in-law and watch her become the heir's wife!"

Shen Lingyue rubbed her hands together eagerly. "Don't worry, Mother. Your daughter has plenty of skills and tricks!"

She'd read three hundred palace-intrigue and household-intrigue novels. Surely she could handle one actual ancient person?

The next day, Zhou Yanyi came to visit in person. Shen Lingyue thought she was there to pick a fight, but then their eyes met.

Oh, crap. Wasn't this her best friend Yanyi, who she'd known since childhood?

How did you transmigrate here too???

*

Shen Lingyue and Zhou Yanyi hid behind the bed curtains and whispered.

"What do we do? Should we run away from the marriage?"

"Let's wait and see. What if the Pei brothers are handsome? One for you, one for me, and neither of us loses ^_^"

*

The Marquis of Changning was a prestigious family, and the emperor decreed that the two brothers should marry on the same day, bringing double joy to the household.

The next morning, the newlyweds went to serve tea. After finally finding a chance to meet, they asked each other:

"How was your night?"

"I-It was okay, I guess."

"Mine was okay too."

"Should we wait and see?"

"...All right."

*

Shen Lingyue argued with Pei Er and went to the main branch with a pillow, sobbing.

"Sister-in-law, I'm sleeping with you tonight."

Zhou Yanyi glanced silently at her husband. "How about you sleep in the study tonight?"

The Heir Apparent, Pei, stormed next door with a dark expression. "Can you give my wife some space?"

*

Zhou Yanyi heard that the Heir Apparent had a cherished first love. Usually gentle, she suddenly turned fierce. "Pei Jingyi, I want a divorce!"

Shen Lingyue immediately chimed in. "If you leave, I'm leaving too. You divorce him today, and I'll divorce mine tomorrow."

Pei Jinghuai, who had been watching the drama in the main branch, was dumbfounded. How did a divorce come with a buy-one-get-one-free deal?

He stormed off to find his elder brother. "Hurry up and make your wife happy, or I'll be stuck as a bachelor too!"

*

The people of the capital had expected to watch the Marquis of Changning's household fall into chaos, with the two sisters-in-law at each other's throats and the already strained relationship between the Pei brothers growing even worse.

But they waited and waited. Not only did the two young marchionesses grow closer, but their bellies began to show, one after the other. Pei Jingyi smoothly inherited the title, while Pei Jinghuai earned a marquisate through his military achievements. With two outstanding sons, the Marquis of Changning's household became the most prestigious family in the capital.

Reader's Guide:

Main perspective: Shen Lingyue. Delicate, easygoing, laid-back slacker X cheerful ray of sunshine, skilled in martial arts, with abs that are great to touch.

Second heroine: Zhou Yanyi. Brilliant and aloof top student X meticulous, possessive, and jealous man who can't say what's on his mind.

#Wrong script, right husband#

#My best friend and I gossip about everyone in the capital every day#

A slice-of-life story focused on gossip and watching the drama, packed with melodrama, plus a little childish bickering and romance after marriage.

Theme: Love is the most powerful force in the world.