A genius hacker buys a haunted house in Thailand and ends up becoming a practitioner of black magic.
Wang Shengnan. Twenty-one years old. A senior studying computer science at an ordinary university in Shancheng.
She sent out three hundred resumes. Passed twelve interviews. Job offers: zero.
Her father emptied his savings to buy her a home for her future marriage. She sold it.
She didn’t want to compete anymore. She couldn’t keep up.
She took the money and flew to Phuket. Bought a cheap villa. Facing the sea, with spring in bloom. Ready to lie flat.
Until she discovered it was a haunted house.
The previous owner was called Dong Yin Gong Kong Shuai, a renowned black magic practitioner from Phuket. He had been dead for three years, but the house was still occupied.
He had set up a ritual array inside the house.
It wasn’t for keeping burglars out. It was for refining people.
Anyone who entered would be turned into a living corpse in forty-nine days.
Shengnan knew something was wrong on her first day inside. But she couldn’t get out.
Forty-nine days passed. She didn’t die, go mad, or turn into a living corpse.
She broke the array.
Not on purpose. Her hacker’s mind was just too stubborn. She read the black magic like code, treated it like a bug, and reverse-engineered the System.
Using the methods she used to write code, she dismantled a black magic ritual array that had existed for centuries.
Then Master Kong Shuai’s memories flooded into her mind like a torrent.
Spells. Incantations. Recipes. Taboos. Client lists. Lists of enemies. She got it all.
And something else: a fragment of Master Kong Shuai’s ghost took up residence inside her.
From then on,
she was no longer Wang Shengnan.
She was a living person carrying a dead man’s memories, half a ghost in a living body.
She opened a shop in Phuket.
It was called the KIKO Agency.
