Xie Ning, a little-known star, narrowly escaped death three days in a row.
A wire snapped on set, a fire broke out at his hotel, and he got into a car accident on his way to accept an award.
His rare appearance on the trending list was to announce that he was jinxed.
His antis celebrated across the internet, lining up outside his building to burn offerings.
His manager, who fancied himself knowledgeable about the supernatural, dragged him off to visit an occult master in the middle of the night.
The master burned incense, shook a bell, and made a calculation with his fingers.
"Someone is using dark arts to steal your luck. Your death is imminent. The only way is to invite a god into your body and use evil to ward off evil!"
That night, after the ritual was complete,
Xie Ning saw a blurry shadow standing behind him in the mirror. A cool touch brushed the side of his neck, and the "person" laughed with lazy nonchalance. "Beg me to protect you. Can you afford the price?"
The next day, the master was found dead at home, his body in a gruesome state.
An icy ghostly aura wound around Xie Ning, drifting across his pale lips...
The Ghost King Lin Jiu toyed casually with his soft hair and chuckled.
"Little thing, that useless man went to all that trouble so you would take the curse for him. Now he's dead. Tell me... how are you going to thank me?"
Xie Ning was chilled to the bone, and finally understood.
From beginning to end, he had been chosen by the "master" to be offered to an evil spirit... as a living sacrifice.
To stay alive, Xie Ning had no choice but to work with this Ghost King, whose malice blazed to the heavens.
"Find all my bones, and I'll grant your wish."
And so...
A century-old haunted house where the fog never lifted, a crossroads at midnight, a desolate graveyard on the night of the Ghost Festival.
The paparazzi following him got scared sick in three waves in a single month.
#Xie Ning seems to have lost his mind, and he quickly shoots to the top of the trending list.
But...
In the only relatively clear photo, the thin young man holds a white candle and stares wide-eyed into a mirror...
A hazy glow outlines his exquisite profile. Like an elf disturbed in the dead of night, he looks fragile and enchanting.
"Something's wrong with me! Why is Xie Ning so gorgeous!!!"
"Stop holding that candle, baby, just take my heart instead!"
"Damn, that's definitely my long-lost wife!!!"
The entire internet goes completely crazy over his bewitching beauty.
"Whatever you're doing, could you start a livestream and bring us along?"
His management company, which thought a career-ending scandal had fallen from the sky: ???
"Do it! Start one right now!!!!"
Until one day, Xie Ning, covered in blood, held out the last piece of his breastbone to the other man...
Lin Jiu's icy fingertips stroked his fragile Adam's apple. A thick, baleful aura transformed into countless chains, wrapping them tightly together, bound for eternity.
"At first, I only wanted you to help me escape."
Lin Jiu sighed softly. "But now... I want to be entangled with you for all eternity."
Xie Ning angrily tipped his head back and bit down on the man's cold, pale neck.
"Then just break my bones apart and put me back together with yours!"
"Good idea."
"????"
#He said he'd leave once I finished collecting the bones, so why is this shameless Ghost King clinging to me!
#Forced to livestream, I become an internet sensation. Are those marks on the top-tier star's collarbone really hickeys!
[Blurb written in August 2025; chat records available]
Theme: Who doesn't go a little crazy? We're all just keeping it together...
