Raising a Kid and Catching Demons Will Make You Famous

Original Title: Raising a Kid While Catching Ghosts Makes You Famous

Phoenix Huang, a Celestial Master, accidentally transmigrates while hunting a ghost. She wakes up as a notorious, washed-up actress with a five-year-old little burden thrown in for free.

With only a few hundred yuan left in her bank account, Phoenix gets back to her old line of work with her son, Pineapple.

Fortune-telling and feng shui by day, exorcising demons and catching ghosts by night.

Who could have guessed that someone would film her suppressing a Ghost King with golden light and upload it online?

The internet onlookers are skeptical:

"Didn't this woman make a suicide threat before? She couldn't make a comeback, so now she's trying to build a fortune-telling persona?"

"The special effects are a little over the top. One star."

"Is she going to start livestreaming to make money next?"

Phoenix gets it. It really is a new age: even livestreaming ghost hunts can make money.

On a slow-paced variety show, the other guests are busy showing their kids what life is like.

Phoenix, however, takes Pineapple livestreaming as they explore an abandoned village and enter a thousand-year-old tomb, where the tomb's owner actually rises from the dead!

Watching the viewer count soar and gifts flood the screen, Phoenix is surrounded by golden light and puts on a show for everyone, exorcising a zongzi.

After that night, Phoenix becomes an overnight sensation.

Viewers watch her tell an unlucky top-tier star's fortune and change his luck, remove a curse from an award-winning actress, and solve bizarre criminal cases...

The comments go from bewildered: "Holy crap, she might actually know what she's doing?"

To: "Ahhh, that's so scary, but she's so amazing!!!"

And so her livestream gets livelier and livelier...

A superstar invites her to join a livestream, a famous actor furiously battles for the top spot on her leaderboard, a well-known director sends her an offer in the comments, and variety show invitations pour in like snowflakes. Viewers flood the screen, urging her to return to show business.

Phoenix: Thanks for the invite, but all I care about is catching ghosts.

Bonus Scene:

Pineapple's long-lost biological father turns out to be a business magnate. He pulls out every trick to win Phoenix back.

Pineapple shakes his head repeatedly. "Mom, I think Dad's up to no good. He's got bad intentions. Why not consider the uncle next door? He's handsome, rich, and has an eight-pack... Hey, what's that in the dirt pile?"

"That's your dad," Phoenix says. "Just a moment. One more shovel and he'll be buried."

Blurb written on November 21, 2022

[Reading Guide]:

1. The story focuses on ghost hunting. It's not scary, and it has livestream comments.

2. The blurb and the story differ slightly. The story takes precedence.

3. The worldbuilding is entirely made up. Just read it for fun.

4. Wishing all readers every success.

A cute upcoming story:

I Found a Dog Medium by Chu Shang Shi, May 25, 2023

Blurb:

Yuan Dong has just graduated from college and is so broke she can hear her pockets echo.

She also picked up a stray Samoyed, and the two of them depend on each other while barely scraping by.

One day, Yuan Dong wakes up to find the Samoyed sitting beside her bed. It sighs and says, "I've been thinking. How about you get me a phone, and we livestream to become internet stars?"

Yuan Dong: ? I must've woken up too early. Why can I hear a dog talking? I'll go back to sleep.

"Hey, get up!" The Samoyed smacks her face with a paw. "Ever since I came to live with you, I've been eating worse than when I was a stray! Can you have some ambition? Let's eat something good!"

Yuan Dong can't figure out how the Samoyed plans to win over viewers. It's not as clingy as a poodle, as good at solving problems as a border collie, or as affectionate as a golden retriever.

This so-called "smiling angel" doesn't even smile. It's so bad-tempered, you'd think the whole world owed it eight hundred yuan worth of meat treats.

The Samoyed says calmly, "I'm a medium."

Yuan Dong: ? So even pets can provide that kind of service?

Before long, the Samoyed's spirit-channeling livestreams set off a bizarre trend among pet influencers.

In its first week, the Samoyed helps a cat ghost relay the words it could never get its owner to understand while it was alive.

In its second week, it helps a dog ghost arrange to visit its owner in a dream.

In its third week, it teaches viewers how to recognize their pets after they are reincarnated.

At first, the onlookers don't believe it, but more and more people helped by the Samoyed come forward to share their stories.

Netizen A: My Beibei has been gone for ten years. I only just found out it's been by my side this whole time. QAQ

Netizen B: Sob... So Dahei saved up all those coins just to see me in a dream...

Netizen C: Guys, who gets it? The dog I just adopted has exactly the same little quirks as my old dog, Mudball!

Later, the Samoyed becomes a sensation. The pet treats it promotes sell out in seconds, with sales far ahead of everyone else. The stray animal cafe it opens becomes a popular check-in spot, and it eventually wins the Most Influential Blogger of the Year award at the Phantom Festival ceremony.

As it goes up to accept its award, the host asks passionately, "You went from an ordinary little dog to a huge internet star, yet you still warmly help every little animal that comes to you. Is it out of a sense of responsibility? Is it love?"

"Because I'm greedy."

So says a dog with limited civil capacity, who still needs Yuan Dong to pay for its snacks with facial recognition, despite becoming a huge internet star.

"Of course," the Samoyed adds, "making up for regrets. That's a medium's mission."

Theme: Respect for life