Sui Ban was born frail and relied on a supernatural ritual to summon a soul and extend his life.
As an adult, he thought it was all superstition, but to put the old woman's mind at ease, he offered incense every day to a black porcelain urn.
According to his grandmother, the urn held his Yin Noble.
Offering incense meant he was serving his "older brother" a meal.
After leaving home for school, Sui Ban inevitably began to slack off.
Then one day, the porcelain urn shattered, and an overwhelming baleful aura surged like dense, roiling clouds of fog, enveloping University A.
As the black fog was about to swallow him, Sui Ban panicked. Years of habit made him call out, almost without thinking, "Older brother!"
The murderous baleful aura came to a halt.
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At the brink of life and death, Sui Ban's memories awakened.
It turned out he was living in a supernatural novel. The ritual that used a ghost to nourish a living soul was real, but his grandmother knew only part of the truth. She did not know that soul-nourishing magic brought a tremendous backlash.
Yan Hui, who had endured the agony of his soul being burned inside the urn for twenty years, was the powerful ghostly male lead in the novel.
Once the seal was broken, the first thing the vengeful ghost did was dismember Sui Ban, the one who had kept him imprisoned for years.
This heaven-shaking aura of bloodshed drew the attention of Wen Song, who was also at University A.
As the novel's exorcist protagonist, Wen Song kept Yan Hui by his side, guiding and nurturing him day after day, until he finally dispelled the ghost's baleful aura with the power of his accumulated merit.
After learning the plot, Sui Ban could not sleep at night. Convinced his life was in danger, he hurried to find Wen Song, hoping the exorcist would subdue the ghost before the latter could kill him.
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Seeing the pale, gentle young man before him with tears welling in his eyes, looking ready to burst into tears, Wen Song reached out instinctively to comfort him. But a second before his hand touched the other's shoulder, an invisible force stopped him.
He struggled with all his might, and every bone in his fingers shattered.
Sui Ban jumped in fright and asked in a tearful voice, "What's wrong?"
Wen Song fell silent. Then he drew a line across his brow with a bloodied fingertip, opening his Heavenly Eye.
He saw a ghost in black pressed close behind Sui Ban, one arm wrapped around his waist. A cold, damp tongue licked the young man's fair, soft earlobe. Sensing Wen Song's gaze, the ghost looked back at him coldly.
Dark red eyes, thin, cold lips.
With a silent movement of his mouth, he declared his claim: "Mine."
A story about teasing a pretty, pitiful and timid boy who fears ghosts but whose fate attracts them. Yum.
Theme: Love can overcome life and death.