The Haunted Realm Descends

If you could earn a month's salary by watching a horror movie or going through a haunted house, would you learn to love being scared? “Now that's a deal!” One ordinary weekend, Jiang Wei received a phone of unknown origin. It could turn fear into “Fear Points,” which she could exchange for “gold beans.” So she became a longtime horror movie fan, a regular at every haunted house in the city, and the most beautiful paranormal livestream host. From then on, she was on her way to the top. The only thing that unsettled her was that the “gold beans” were actually called “Golden Prayer Beads.” And besides those, the phone offered plenty of other “items”: Blessed water, paper money, sacrificial daggers, incense burners, holy water, peachwood swords… “Why are these things more expensive than the ‘gold beans’?! “And who would even need this stuff?” Before long, Jiang Wei discovered that the one thing this world had no shortage of was fear. … The supernatural descended, the world fell apart, and the laws of common sense grew more distorted by the day. Strange things flourished in the shadows of bustling cities. A pale paper effigy wandered alone through an old apartment building. A leather sofa waited for its next victim. A maddening advertising jingle played on repeat. The stairwell twisted like an intestine, digesting everything. When you turned around, the reflection in the mirror was no longer your own. … Other completed books: “Grassland Veterinarian,” “Hong Kong Detective,” “The Little Secretary System,” “Reborn as a Great Painter,” and more. … Theme: Love life, and love yourself.