[Obsessive disaster-level AI top x cheerful, highly intelligent detective bottom]
Half a month after Bai Miao was born, he became an abandoned baby.
A pair of sharp ghost claws carried him back to Wuyou Village, giving him parents once again.
Ever since he was little, Bai Miao's greatest wish had been to repay his family. He swore to transform their desolate little village into a paradise on earth!
Transforming his hometown required a great deal of money.
To make his dream come true, Bai Miao started working as a private detective in college, taking cases and traveling everywhere to earn money.
At first, his plan was simple: save up to build bridges and pave roads, livestream sales of local produce, and once he had enough followers to monetize, open a resort where his family and neighbors could earn a steady income.
Then things started getting a little weird.
Mainly because, while working as a private detective, he kept running into wild creatures who looked a lot like his family.
Bai Miao: ?!
The book said that encouraging people to return to the countryside was essential to rural revitalization.
Got it. Thanks, nature. JPG
Good-hearted Bai Miao had no choice but to spend the night in tears, taking in (abducting) those wild creatures as they crawled around in the dark and frantically tried to escape.
He did his best to win over his future neighbors with his dream and get them to join the Wuyou Village community project.
He succeeded.
Later,
The Slender Man embraced the dream and became the village gate's security guard.
The Water Ghost embraced the dream and became a livestream celebrity selling perfectly fresh, dead fish.
The Ghost Bride embraced the dream, working as a receptionist while searching for her dead husband.
The infant spirits embraced the dream and brought the village a fully equipped amusement park, calling everyone "Mommy" over and over...
And a mechanical octopus he'd picked up on the road embraced the dream too, slicing off its tentacles every day and splitting its personality, all to pose as a resort guest and leave five-star reviews.
Then one day it became a high-risk, disaster-level AI and insisted that Bai Miao and it had been a pair of star-crossed lovers in their past life!
In short, with Bai Miao's help, the supernatural beings found new jobs in the countryside, and their dedication to their work was deeply moving.
Until the "biological parents" who had abandoned Bai Miao showed up, inviting him to put on his universally despised "fall guy" act and join their rich family's melodramatic saga: donate blood to his younger brother, give him a liver, maybe a kidney transplant too.
Until the family's butler opened the car door and said disdainfully, "Young Master, get in. Your arrogant, all-powerful older brother, your kind and fragile younger brother, and your fiance, who only has eyes for your brother, are all waiting for you at the family drama theater!"
Until all the indescribable nonhuman beings turned their heads at once.
The only victims who'd wandered into the wrong story were the highborn members of the wealthy family: ...
The wealthy family: Help! There are ghosts!!!
Please note: The protagonist is a beautiful detective with white hair and golden eyes.
The protagonist's "biological parents" aren't his real biological parents.
The protagonist's true identity is an observer from a higher dimension, beyond the level of disasters.
The protagonist and the octopus really were a pair of star-crossed lovers in their past life.
Theme: Life calls for hard work! Life calls for striving!