*This is an adaption from the Webtoon 'Ghost Teller' created by QTT. Please support the creator on Webtoon as well.

You think your ghost stories are scary? Try listening to these stories from the ghosts themselves.

There are many ghost stories in this book. 
1 chapter =1 ghost story.

It's the last day of school today and luckily I was able to get a pretty good grade in English class (C). I just couldn't  stop telling Ghost stories to my sister and friends though. I have a feeling that my parents will not be happy about my grade and mad that I have still been telling Ghost stories. 
Lily and I were walking home and I was trying not to tell her a story. It wasn't easy, and As soon as we got home we saw that there was a moving truck in the driveway!!! 
We both ran inside and went to the living room. We saw our mother and started to say "Are we moving mom?! Why is that truck..." When my mom interrupted and said "No we aren't moving girls. A family of 4 is moving in with us for the summer. They will be staying in the basement."
"REALLY?!" Lily and I said at the same time. 
"Where are they?" I asked. 
"We are right here." A man wearing an orange suit said as he and 3 others walked in. 
There was a teen red head girl(around 16-18), a woman who also had red hair and a boy with black hair. 
"My name is Jack Fenton and this is my wife Madeline. Please call us Mr. and Mrs. Fenton though." The man said to us. 
"My name is Jasmine but you can call me Jazz and This is my 16 year old little brother Danny." said the girl. 
"My name is Sabrina and this is my little sister Lily. Where are you from?" I Asked. 
"We are from a place called Anity Park.  We were ghost hunters but now we are retired. We are gonna work at a lab and be normal scientists now." Mrs. Fenton said. 
"You were ghost hunters?! There's no such thing as ghosts!! You are sure going to like my sister. She's obsessed with telling ghost stories and scaring me." Lily said as she rolled her eyes.
Danny looked a little interested though. 
"Can you please not tell Lillian any scary or ghost stories?" My mom asked the Fentons. 
"Of course. Don't worry lily. We closed our portal to the ghost world and got rid of them all before moving away. We didn't bring any of our ghost stuff with us." They all said. Lily still seemed pretty nervous and scared but she stayed in the room. 

My mom and Mr. and Mrs. Fenton went downstairs to unpack but the other kids stayed with us.
"What was it like fighting ghosts in anity Park?" I asked. 
"there were tons of ghosts coming out of the Ghost portal but we knew right when they came and captured them. Then we returned them to the ghost world. I had 2 best friends to help me too." said Danny. 
"Yeah! One day a ghost disguised herself as a human therapist and came to our school! She made all the students feel terrible and tired to kill me!" said Jazz. 
This scared the daylights out of Lily and she ran into another room screaming. 
"Oh... Did I scare her? I'm Sorry." Jazz said.  
"How did you get away?" I asked. 
"A random ghost came up and saved me! A random ghost boy kept on appearing out of nowhere but he helped fight ghosts. He even found a way to save the earth from a giant meteor 2 years ago!
People in Anity Park say that he doesn't come back anymore though." said Jazz.
After talking and hanging out with Jazz and Danny for a while my mom suddenly yelled "Dinner time!" and we went in the kitchen. 
During dinner the Fenton family and my parents talked about the rules of the house(they brought up not to talk about their old job in front of Lily again). I wasn't sure if I should interrupt and tell them my grade so I just sat in my chair eating quietly. Suddenly my dad turned over to me and said "Your report card came in the mail today Sabrina and I saw you got a C in English."
"is that OK?" I asked nervously. 
"It's OK but I think you could've gotten an C+ or B- if you didn't tell all those ghost stories. I'm surprised you didn't get a C- or F." My dad said.

"Did you hear? There are rumors that a ghost visited the male dormitory last night! There was a student who always bullied his roommate found dazed in his bed. Both pee and poop were found staining his shorts!"
"How come I heard it was the female dormitory that had a problem last night? The surveillance camera was covered by a black shadow, but the manager said she saw many different human faces flutter into the dormitory through the blurry camera! There was a female student who was found in the corridor. She was incognizant. People said she was sleep walking!"
"Yes, yes. This morning, I saw someone was sent to the hospital. The ambulance stopped for a while before the female dormitory. Now, everyone is talking about how the students who often bully their classmates are being cursed! This is karma rearing her ugly head!"
A few girls were standing together, whispering and gossiping among themselves. The most beautiful among them did not say anything; she just looked at the rest of them with derision in her eyes.
"Chen Wen, you'd better take this as a warning. If you continue to go cause trouble, be careful. You might also run into a ghost at night." A female student with a coarse voice and a rather unisexual appearance turned to warn the student who had not spoken.
"Do you think I'll believe these ridiculous stories?" Chen Wen crossed her arms. She guarded at the backdoor of the class like she was waiting for someone. The bell for class rang. Most of the students returned to their seats, and at that moment, a female student who was very casually dressed stepped into the class. She was wearing clothes that were bought at the market. She did not know how to dress herself. Her eyes darted everywhere but her deskmate, Chen Wen. The first class of the day was over. The girl did not dare leave her seat even though she wanted to go to the toilet. She kept herself glued to her seat, as if the moment she left the classroom, something bad would happen to her.
"You seem to have some issues with me, huh?" Chen Wen moved her chair to the girl's side. If one was not close enough to hear the content of her voice and the tone of her voice, just looking at them, one might think they were very close friends.
"No." The girl held her pen and kept flipping through her notes.
"Where are your manners? I am talking to you. Look at me. Look at me!" Chen wen's arm landed on the girl's shoulder. "How about we go to play together after school? Don't be such a good two shoes. You've been wanting to make friends, right? After this afternoon, we will be friends."
"But I have something to do…"
"Okay, so that is a promise. If you dare skip out on me, there will be hell to pay. I will see you later." Chen Wen let go of her arm and took out her phone to start chatting with someone.
Her deskmate gripped the pen in her hand tightly. She was very afraid, but she did not know who to share her problem with. She did not know what Chen Wen wanted from her, but she was sure it was nothing good. Without any actual evidence, even if she went to the teacher, the school would not intervene to deal with Chen Wen. Furthermore, even if the teacher did choose to believe her, all the school could do was leave Chen Wen a warning. As long as they did not kick her out of school, Chen Wen and her friends would only make it their mission to make the girl's school life more miserable.
This was the saddest point about the victims of school bullies. They were the victims, but they were the ones being ostracized, and sometimes, they might even suffer secondary damage from their family and the school. Her head was filled with what Chen Wen had said; the girl could not even pay attention in class. She did not dare speak up, so she stared at her textbook quietly. During the physical education class, the girl requested a break from the teacher with the excuse that she was not feeling well. She returned to the classroom to rest on her own.
"Should I tell the teacher? The girls being targeted by Chen Wen either become her friend or transfer from this school. She appears to come from a very powerful family." The girl's family had just moved to Xin Hai not that long ago. She had the feeling of self-deprecation of a newcomer. "I cannot create more trouble for my parents anymore, but… what should I do?"
"Chang Wenwen?"
The girl suddenly heard someone calling her name. She turned her head to the source of the voice. There was a young man standing at the classroom window with a smile. The sun created a halo around the young man, and the young man's smile was as warm as the sun.
"That should be her! Quick! Pull me back into the comic! My body is about to dissolve under the sun already!" There was a shadow behind the young man who was struggling and pleading, but of course, the girl could not see that.
Pulling Chang Gu back into the comic, Chen Ge pushed open the backdoor of the classroom. "Please do not be afraid. I am completing a request for a friend, and I am here because I need a favor from you."
The girl was utterly confused. She had no idea what Chen Ge was talking about at all.
"Have you ever had this dream before?" Chen Ge stood at the backdoor and softly spoke. "You dreamed about a blood red door. Inside the door, there was a school that only had its classes at night. All the students and teachers at the school were ghosts. When you were lost and in despair, a female senior appeared to help you."
The words jogged the girl's memory, and her face was overwhelmed by surprise. "How do you know about that?"
"Do you still remember what kind of promise you made that female senior?" Chen Ge followed what Chang Gu said and was slowly leading the girl step by step.
"She would help me escape from the nightmare, and in exchange, I would help her look after something." The female student was very innocent, and she did not even consider hiding any information from Chen Ge.
"I am that female senior's friend. She asked me to come to you to reclaim that item."
Chen Ge did not look like a bad person. After a moment's hesitation, the female student undid the first button of her blouse and took out something that looked like a pouch from around her neck. "All this time, I have been wondering whether that was a dream or not. If it was not a dream, how come I cannot remember more details about it? If it was a dream, how I do explain this thing that appeared in my grasp after I woke up that night?"
The girl opened the pouch. Inside was a red stone, and in the middle of the stone was a strand of hair that had been balled up.
"This should be the thing." Chen Ge accepted the stone. The several Red Specters inside the comic gave him warnings at the same time as if this thing was extremely dangerous. "Thank you, I shall take this with me. From now on, your luck will slowly become better."
Before the school security arrived, carrying the stone, Chen Ge hurriedly left the grounds of Xin Hai First High.
"Chang Gu, I have already obtained the object. What should I do next?" Chen Ge carried his backpack to the shadows of a large tree. It was as if he was talking to himself.
A shadow behind Chen Ge opened his lips to say, "That strand of hair is the last lingering spirit of my little sister. The red stone is formed from the blood of her heart, the most important drop of blood for a Top Red Specter."
"Are you not afraid that I'll have the other Red Specters consume her by revealing to me such an important information?"
"Naturally, I am afraid of that, but there is nothing I can do about it," Chang Gu said with a bitter smile. "Even if I hid that information from you, your other Red Specters employees would notice it."
"Don't worry, I will fulfil the promise that I have made. I just hope that you siblings will do the same for me." Chen Ge tossed the blood stone lightly into the air, and that caused Chang Gu to get immensely worried. "With just this lingering spirit and blood stone, your younger sister can come back to life?"
"She still need to consume some Specters first, but I have no idea the exact number of ghosts that she needs to consume." Chang Gu lowered his head. He did not dare look at Chen Ge.
"In other words, you two planned to rope me into the role of her nanny, huh? I think I finally understand Chang Wenyu's plan now. Her enemies are all in Jiujiang, so she chose a girl who just moved to Xin Hai and left her last shred of lingering spirit with her. After she awakens, she can consume the ghosts in Xin Hai to recover her power, and when she is at her full strength again, she can easily return to Jiujiang."
Chang Wenyu was indeed very clever, but she had seriously underestimated Zhang Ya. She had failed to anticipate that Chen Ge would have a Demon God with him.
"Boss, we were indeed in the wrong at the School of the Afterlife. I hope you will help her one more time." Chang Gu was basically begging Chen Ge. During this period when they were together, his opinion of Chen Ge had kept improving. He felt like Chen Ge was someone trustworthy.
"Don't worry." Chen Ge put away the blood stone and creased his brows. "To awaken Chang Wenyu, she needs to feed on ghosts. To improve my employees' abilities, I also need ghosts and Specters." After giving it some thought, Chen Ge took out his phone and started to search for ghost stories related to Xin Hai. He created a throwaway account and snuck into a local supernatural forum. Inside a pinned thread, he found the thing that he was looking for.
'The collection thread for the ghost stories in Xin Hai! Come and review and vote your top ten scariest ghost stories from Xin Hai!'
Chen Ge surveyed the thread post by post. His pupils slowly narrowed as he silently recorded all the information. Chang Gu, who stood next to him, did not dare speak. When his boss looked through these ghost stories, it was like a customer looking over the menu at the restaurant. The serious expression on the man's face caused his heart to shiver with fear.
"This thread is still updating. The latest post was posted about two minutes ago. Looks like I have come across a treasure of a thread." Chen Ge bookmarked the page. He had already memorized the addresses of some of the ghost stories, and he planned to visit them that night.
Returning to the Nightmare Academy, Chen Ge did not have time to greet his employees but directly rush back into the headmaster's office. He asked Chi Ren some questions again and confirmed some information about Doctor Fang and people with the surname Chi before he left.
"Failure to plan is planning to fail, but sometimes, luck plays a huge part of it as well. Xiao Sun, you will run into many kinds of danger on this journey of yours, but I believe in you because you are different from the others." Chen Ge personally inspected the final result of Xiao Sun's special training and taught Xiao Sun a few more tricks.
Once the sky darkened, Chen Ge, who was all prepared, carried the 'heavily injured' Xiao Sun to the countryside of Xin Hai. The secret of the people with the surname Chi was only known to the people with the surname Chi, and this secret was one that they could not share. Due to the curse of the Demon God, once the person revealed the secret, not only would they die, the Demon God would be apprised of the situation there almost immediately.
The cursed hospital did not expect the red high heels to inherit everything that belonged to the ghost fetus and become a Top Red Specter, and Chen Ge was currently making use of this. Chen Ge created an accident so that the people with the surname Chi who lived at the countryside very coincidentally run into Patient 101 Xiao Sun, who was about to dissipate. After using some words and actions to convince the man, Chen Ge watched the man carry Xiao Sun out of Xin Hai with his own eyes. The place that they were heading to was the border between Xin Hai and Jiujiang. There were many ghost buildings and barren lands there. It had been abandoned for many years already.
"God will smile on the faithful. Hopefully, Xiao Sun will make something of himself at the cursed hospital." For some unknown reason, after sending Xiao Sun away, Chen Ge unconsciously sighed in great relief.
"What I need to do next is improve my employees' ability as fast as I can and try to get the red high heels to become a Demon God." It was extremely difficult for a Red Specter become a Demon God, but Chen Ge had no other choice. Only by having the red high heels become the Demon God would he have the right to fight the cursed hospital.
Logging back into the supernatural forum, Chen Ge noticed that the thread was still updating. The forum users had gotten into an argument about the ranking of the ghost stories. No party wished to back down. In the end, some of them even swore that they would go to the locations of the ghost stories to record a video to show the other users how scary the place was.
"Ultimately, the place is a big city. The people are always busy." Jiujiang had similar forums, but the number of active users was pitiably small. The populations of both cities were not on the same level. "The place with more people will have more despair and thus more ghost stories. Theoretically, that should be the case, but it appears like Jiujiang is an exception to the rule."
Chen Ge had also had noticed that the number of ghost stories in Jiujiang was abnormally high. If he was to relate a city to a person, then Jiujiang was like Sun Xiaojun. It had the love of a thousand Specters.
"It has been quite a few days since I arrived in Xin Hai. It is about time I go pay them a visit." Chen Ge hailed a cab to head to his destinations. "Sir, please drive faster. I am in a hurry. I have to visit a few places tonight."
…
By 11 pm, of the top ten Xin Hai Ghost Stories, Chen Ge had already visited three of them, but unfortunately, he was not rewarded. He also slowly realized that the ghost stories with great word of mouth in reality would have a very low chance of actually hiding a Red Specter. If an actual Red Specter with great resentment was behind these ghost stories, there would not be any survivors to spread the ghost stories. Without any survivors, there naturally would not be any witnesses, and the ghost story would not even be known.
With a spirit of not wanting to miss anything, Chen Ge had recorded all the ghost stories on the pinned thread. Among them, he had found a few special ghost stories. The descriptions were not that detailed, but he could pick out specific terms like bloody clothes and red.
"Xin Hai Ghost Stories Rank Twenty-Seven. A crying well in a developing part of the city—it was supposed to be an abandoned well, but there was a crying sound coming from inside it. And there were witnesses claiming they saw bloody hair crawling out from inside the well. This sounds promising. It is worth a visit."
Placing his phone on his knee, Chen Ge used his pen and some paper to help with his note-making. Those who did not know better probably thought he was really reviewing these places.
Ten minutes later, Chen Ge arrived at a developing construction site. Due to many reasons, the construction progress was halted, and the well was at the foot of the hill behind the construction site. Walking through the bushes and trees, Chen Ge finally found the well. The well was made from stone, and not far away from the well were a few old and abandoned houses.
"This should be the place." Before Chen Ge even got near, he could hear a wispy crying sound. "It's coming from inside the well?"
There was a magical power about the crying. Chen Ge appeared to lose control of his body as he slowly moved to the mouth of the well. The pale moonlight shone on the surface of the water. Chen Ge looked into the well. There was endless black hair floating on the surface of the water. Without any attempt at communication, the black hair gathered together and tried to grab Chen Ge around his neck, intending to drag him into the well!
"You asked for it!" His palm flipped through the comic. The moon turned red as blood flushed right into the well. Moments later, the water ghost reappeared beside Chen Ge holding Chang Wenyu's blood stone.
"There was a Half Red Specter inside the well, but it appeared to have been cursed. It cannot be rationally communicated with. It did not even seem to realize it was a ghost."
"It was cursed?" Whenever Chen Ge heard the term 'curse', he was immediately reminded of the cursed hospital.
"After swallowing the Half Red Specter, the blood stone has deepened in color. I predict it will need to swallow at least two more Red Specters before she can awaken. Other than that, there's something else at the bottom of the well. I think you'd better go and look at it yourself."
The water ghost and Xu Yin led Chen Ge into the old well. At the bottom of the well, they encountered a tomb. Inside the tomb was a set of well-preserved clothing, and among the folds of the clothes, there was a patient record. On the back of the patient record was written—'This is a sickened world. Why have you not discovered that fact? I vow to cure you!'
"This statement again?" Chen Ge had once seen this sentence before at Lan Xiaochen's home. "This is a sickened world. Why have you not discovered that fact? I have a feeling that question is meant for me."
Putting away the patient record, Chen Ge crawled out from the old well. "It's pointless to think about it now. We should hurry to the next location of ghost stories instead."


The hearse with the weird odor slowed to a stop before the entrance. The sound of pebbles could be heard bouncing on the ceiling. There were footsteps coming from the corridor, and there seemed to be someone sawing next door. The door knob to the room rattled slightly, and the faucet in the bathroom kept dripping even though it had been screwed shut. There was a rubber ball that rolled on its own underneath the bed. Wet footsteps started to surface one after another on the floor. 
At 3 am, Chen Ge held a cleaver in his hand as he hid beside the room heater. The call he was trying to make was finally answered. "Landlord, is this what you meant by 'the house can be a little crowded at night'‽"

The morning phone call had empowered Zhang Ye with energy. After he washed up, he left home. Today, he was again the first to reach the unit. After he retrieved the keys from the door keeper’s room, he rushed straight to the recording studios.

He wanted to record programs.

And he intended to record a few episodes.

After squeezing in some xiaolongbao, which he bought from the streets, into his stomach, Zhang Ye began to narrate "The Wizard of Oz" as he ate. He wanted to organize the plot. For example, the ending part of each chapter and the crucial plot's position. He was not changing the text or the plot, nor could Zhang Ye change it. He would not change anything about the story, but he could arrange where he would end the segment every day. He did not follow the exact chapter format of "The Wizard of Oz" to the tee. For example, he was ending the program today at a part that made people anticipate. With people's anticipation hooked, the listenership rating tomorrow could be slightly higher. These were all strategic methods.

Why did he go through all this trouble?

It was because Zhang Ye was trying to pull up his listenership ratings!

His current "Old and Young Story Club" listenership ratings were approximately 2.4% or so. It was second in the Literature Channel. If it went any higher, then he could break a few records. That would be extremely helpful for him in winning a Silver Microphone Award. Then, it would be quite certain that he could win the prize.

"Chapter 9: The Queen of the Field Mice."

“‘We cannot be far from the road of yellow brick, now.’ remarked the Scarecrow, as he stood beside the girl, ‘for we have come nearly as far as the river carried us away.’ The Tin Woodsman was about to reply, when he heard a low growl. Turning his head, he saw a strange beast come bounding over the grass towards them."

...

9:30 A.M.

His colleagues had already begun work for half an hour.

Zhao Guozhou's image had changed today. He had permed his hair. He held out the ratings table as usual, "Stop the things that you are doing for a moment. Is everyone here?"

Tian Bin looked towards an empty seat, "Zhang Ye isn't here."

Zhao Guozhou frowned, "He isn't here yet? What time is it already?"

Big Sis Zhou spoke out for Zhang Ye, "Little Zhang must have been too tired over the past few days, so he's a bit late. I'll give him a call." She took out her cellphone and gave a call, but Zhang Ye's cellphone was switched off.

Jia Yan tried to instigate matters, "He's not picking up?"

Big Sis Zhou stared at him, "His phone is switched off; maybe he's still sleeping."

Wu Datao seethed, "Isn't this not treating work seriously? He decides not to come on a whim? He has become arrogant just with this bit of results? Does he even have the Leader in his eyes?"

With this fault to pick on, a few colleagues who had extremely poor relations with Zhang Ye began to fan the flames. Their tones made it even worse.

Suddenly, Zhang Ye came in from outside. Hearing everyone say his name, he asked strangely, "Director, are you looking for me?" He was still unsure of what had happened.

Zhao Guozhou looked at him, "Why are you so late?"

Zhang Ye was puzzled, "No, I'm not late. I reached here at 7+ in the morning." He shook the bunch of keys in his hand, "I got the keys from the door keeper's room, and was in the recording studio, recording my program. I wanted to record a few more episodes today, so I came in earlier, so as to not need to line up to wait for the recording studio."

What?

You came in at 7?

He had been working and recording all this time?

Tian Bin, Jia Yan and Wu Datao's faces turned ugly.

Big Sis Zhou laughed and mocked at Tian Bin and company. She again stood up for Zhang Ye, "I was wondering why Teacher Little Zhang's cellphone was switched off; so he was recording programs."

Zhao Guozhou glanced at Jia Yan and company from the corner of his eyes before finally patting Zhang Ye on the shoulder in a satisfied manner. He smiled. "Very good. However, you must make sure to rest. Don't work too hard."

"Thank you, Director; I will." Zhang Ye said.

"Go back to your seat. I'll announce the results." Zhao Guozhou said warmly.

Noting that Director Zhao's attitude towards Zhang Ye was changing, Tian Bin’s heart began to quiver. He suddenly felt a sense of danger. "Late-night Ghost Stories" had just been returned to his hands. "Ghost Blows Out the Light" was not done broadcasting, and it would be some time before Tian Bin managed to really take up the job. However, with the way things were going, why did he feel a sense of danger? Could Zhang Ye steal the anchor position of "Late-night Ghost Stories" once again?

Zhao Guozhou began announcing the listenership ratings.

"First place. ‘Talk About the World’, listenership 3.69%

"Second place, ‘Old and Young Story Club’, listenership... 2.98%!"

"Third place, ‘Late-night Ghost Stories’, listenership rating... 1.97%!"

With the top three announced, everyone was already speechless and unsure about what to do. Some people even let out audible heavy breaths!

This was too fierce!

Was this something that no one could stop?

Even "Late-night Ghost Stories" had gone up as well! It had gained third place!

Ever since Zhang Ye had a new segment, the first episode of "The Wizard of Oz" had replaced "Entertainment Daily"'s second placing. "Late-night Ghost Stories", which was always third in place then got pushed back to become fourth. However, now, with Wu Datao and his partners frequently having errors in his program, "Entertainment Daily"'s listenership ratings have begun to drop off. Even "Late-night Ghost Stories" had surpassed this news-related segment, and had even reached a shocking 1.97% listenership rating. Ignoring their Literature Channel, even in the Central Broadcasting Radio Station, or even in all the radio station channels in the country, there were no late-night segments with such a f***ing ridiculous listenership rating! This...This was about to break 2%?

F***!

Was this still a late-night segment?

Even prime-time segments were not so fierce!

Only those colleagues who had been steadfastly listening to "Late-night Ghost Stories" were not surprised. This was because they knew that "Ghost Blows Out the Light" had ended a particular arc a few days ago and had begun to lay a foundation for a new story. During these few days, it was in a thrilling climax and was especially interesting or even very scary. This naturally pulled up the listenership ratings, resulting in another small outbreak. So it was no wonder that it could exceed "Entertainment Daily".

Actually, what shocked everyone the most was the listenership ratings for "Old and Young Story Club"!

The first episode was 2.49%

The second episode was 2.45%

The third episode was 2.51%

There was supposed to be the fourth episode being broadcast the day before yesterday, but it was cancelled due to the Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet, so there was no listenership rating for that day. The real fourth episode had been shifted to yesterday, which was also the listenership rating that was announced today!

2.98%!

This growth was too defiant of the Heavens!

This was almost like making rockets! It was flying up in such a short period of time!

How can that be? Their channel had never had such a jump between listenership ratings before! They acknowledged that Zhang Ye's new story, "The Wizard of Oz", was indeed very fascinating; however, even the best segment and story needed a gradual process of improvement. It could not have such a jump without any signs, right? Eh, that's not right! Who said that there were no signs? Many people realized after giving it some thought! It was the Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet! It was winning first place with "Shuidiao Getou" that allowed Zhang Ye's fame to greatly increase! The live broadcast of the Mid-Autumn Poetry Meet happened to be the time slot for Zhang Ye's program. And from various factors like this were "Old and Young Story Club" and even "Late-night Ghost Stories" brought to such an amazing height!

This was 2.98%!

It was going to break three soon?

In the history of the Literature Channel, only three programs had broken the 3% rating barrier. One of them was "Criticizing Books", and another was "Daily Jokes". These two segments had a historical reason for breaking 3%. Back then, television was still not universal, and radio broadcasting was the main avenue. Later on, with television and the internet becoming prevalent, "Criticizing Books" was axed six to seven years ago, due to poor ratings. "Daily Jokes" had now changed into a witty skit segment. It could be said to have ceased to exist. Today, the only program in history that still managed to break 3% in the Literature Channel was Wang Xiaomei's "Talk About the World"!

But now, another one was about to appear!

What sort of glory was this? It was about to enter the Beijing Radio Station's annals soon!

And it was highly possible for "Late-night Ghost Stories" to break a record, too! No, actually it should be said that ever since "Late-night Ghost Stories" was in Zhang Ye's hands, it was making new records every day. It had created a history and miracle for late-night midnight segments! And this miracle was about to usher in a new peak!

Breaking 2%!

If "Ghost Blows Out the Light"'s rating could break 2%, this was not just creating history in the Beijing Radio Station, but history for the entire country's late-night segments on radio!

A newcomer!

Two segments!

They had all reached a peak at this moment!

Zhang Ye's results had made everyone envious; however, Zhang Ye was clearly not satisfied. It could even be said that he was far from satisfied!

He wanted to get the Silver Microphone Award!

He could not stop in his footsteps; he needed to climb even higher. He could still go further!


Zhang Ye was originally a mundane college graduate with aspiring dreams to become a star, but unfortunately has below average looks and height. However one day, he woke up and suddenly found himself in a parallel world! 
It’s like the same world, but wait a minute…many brands, celebrities and even famous works from his world changed and are gone in this new world! Armed with the profound literary knowledge of his previous world and a heaven-defying Game Ring that gives him magical items, stats and skills, Zhang Ye embarks on a journey to pursue his life-long dream of becoming famous!
Follow Zhang Ye as he takes the new world by storm, one plagiarized piece at a time, to hilarious reactions!

School ground. day. Emma having her own time sleeping under the sun while Belle reading beside her. a novel about missing student whom been keep by her own school teacher. the novel are interesting to read. couple minute, she too take a sleep a bit before school bell rang.
"Oh i love sleep on this grass." she inhaling then exhaling. "It's makes me calm." she said, eyes close. she hear Belle humming. "Oh i wish there's no bell rang."
meanwhile at teacher office. the teacher also taking their rest before continue teaching in class. Gibson sit on his chair. prepare the question for his class. he like his student know History. there's a lot history they must learn. like Asian history. their culture are unique. Gibson had two hours with them before school ended. 
"Gibson?." he look on his right wheres the teacher rest. "Studying?."
he shake his head. said. "A quiz actually. I prepared for my class. asian history."
"Interesting. which states? you know asian is big and world wide. which you interesting I could helped if you want."
Gibson leaned back. said. "What about Indonesia?."
"Scary one or not?."
"What's the different?."
too many question between Gibson and science teacher name, Mr.Bubba. he quite interesting about spiritual and mystery especially asian ghost stories. every states had their own ghost story. Mr. Bubba love ghost story.
"You wanna hear?."
later. Gibson class begin. students take their sit. waiting. he drop his things on desk as usual. he sit the edge of desk. he scanning students face till he stop at Belle. she wasn't looked at him. she write something on her note book. cursing him, spell him. he don't know. he doesn't care what she doing, but he'll do. either not looking at his face. as long she never stayed out from his sight.
"Class." he smile. "I have a stories to tell but I don't think is unnecessary. like Mr. Bubba said, I must not. so tell me." he stare. "Do you like ghost stories?."
the students look each other. "If you like. maybe I start with mine. thanks to Mr. Bubba. he's the one who share this fascinating story to me."
"You said is unnecessary to tell."
he smirked. "I lied. let we begin shall we."
minute later. Gibson smirking. his eyes on them. exactly fear face he see after they hear the story he told. and be told by Bubba. girls student wiped their sweat, while boys? so many time swallow their own saliva. believe it or not. the truth comes first.
"So? any question?." he waited. continue. "Come one guys. relax. it's just a story. nothing will happen in here, this is america not asian."
as he waited. one of the student raise hand. "Aah. Mr. George. wanna share your thought."
"Well - I umm. well basically. maybe. I was wondering there's must be a version on that old folks story. you know."
he look around the class then back to Gibson. "Well all know this story is about a woman died on birth. some version said she died on birth but some said she been killed by someone while she pregnant. two version in one story."
"Yes. two version exactly one same stories. she can died on birth or she can died in kill. she can't choose. it depends."
"That creepy."
George's eyes on the girl in his classroom.
"Just you guys think. all of you are woman. you guys pregnant. an sudden you died. whether been kill or not. and the night you turn into a ghost. what you gonna do?"
Gibson eyes on the girl. he see Belle are stare at George's. he smirked. watch her doing.
"Ghost? you know. how hard can be. you guys must be suffer even become a ghost. you seeking. you revenge. vengeance. duh."
silent. Belle low her head down her laps. "What you gonna do, Belle?."
George asked her. she look at him back. what she gonna said about it. pregnant. dying. kill. ghost?
"Try me. kill me. we see about that."
"But you must get pregnant first. then you know. you turn into that thing." back in silent. "A monster."
Gibson clap his hand once. he smile. said. "I wonder beautiful girl like you be a ghost, Miss Belle. they won't scared of you but trying to flirt with you even you are alive. right now. someone will."
"You're right, Mr. Gibson. even me." he laugh. "I try to flirt with her but she rejected me. no way." he look at her back. "You're mine, Belle."
Belle rolled her eyes. she sank on her chair. Gibson circling around the class with smile till he stop, stand back of the class. his eyes on Belle back body. she about to look over her shoulder. he stop her.
"Okay class. we enjoyed hear the stories. this is true stories of asian ghost that we haven't know. sometimes we need to study more than that. the culture and everything. now." he then walk toward his desk. he reach his bag where he prepared card quiz for the class.
later evening. Alpaca's restaurant. "Belle!."
"Frank?."
"Order's up!."
Belle take the order and she start to rushed. happily. she love her job. she love working in restaurant.
"You. here, let me top off there, Jimmy."
she turn to another table. "I've got that sausage coming up for you, Dale." she shout. she went to another table.
"Your meal." she rushed.
minute later. she stop. staring at one of the table. there's four teenage like her age. two boys and girls. they waited to be served. Tiana notice. she tapped Belle shoulder. she jolt blinking her eyes with sigh.
"Oh. Terrific."
Tiana smile. "You want me to take it?."
"My section, I've got it."
she walk and greet them. "Hi, Amanda. hi, guys."
she smile. "You're guys here." she smile again.
they four stare Belle. one of the girl said. "Do you mind if we order?."
sighs. "Yeah. what can I get for you guys?."
whistling. later. Belle take a short break. her arm crossed on her chest. Tiana finish serving at her section. the place are quite now. she glance over the wall where the clock hang. exactly 10.00pm already. people are slow getting out from the restaurant. only left few couple and family to be done.
Tiana walk toward Belle. "Hey, you alright?."
"What can be more terrific."
"Relax. just two more days."
Belle look her. "Two more day why? are you quitting?."
"No you silly. didn't you know?." Belle shake her head. "We're going for vacation. L.A here we come."
"Why sudden? when?."
"This monday."
Belle shocked a bit. she about to jumped on top of Tiana. but why?
"I can't join you guys. school."
Tiana chuckle. she wraps her arm to Belle in smile. she said.
"Jonah already taking care everything. he need you in this trips. because of you his restaurant are most wanted and popular among people. people dine in. non stop. he thank you. you're everything. so, he decided to have this trips for us. hotel. transport. everything."
Belle snort. said. "I guess I have to tell my mother about this."
"Yeah, baby doll. long trip that you barely imagine."

Andriana Belle Decker, a sixteen years old High school student.
Perfect family.
Perfect part time job.
Perfect friends.
Perfectly everything.

Victor Gibson, a twenty six years old transfer teachers.
He found hers.
He hers teachers.
He had eyes on hers. 
He own everythings.

"Yep, this incident arose from the Story of One Hundred Demons game, which is based on the Night of One Hundred Demons, so maybe it's not an appropriate suggestion. Despite this, I think transforming into Blue Lantern Ghost is a way for you to confront your fears directly." Seiji rubbed his chin. "Sensei, you know about Blue Lantern Ghost, right?"
"I do," Mayuzumi replied. "It's the lantern that's used in ancient times when playing the Story of One Hundred Demons game, right?" 
"That's right. Lanterns with blue covers can transform into this type of demon. Some say that they're tiny demons who carry lanterns. Others believe they're young women who like to listen to ghost stories, or female demons who collect ghost stories; in short, there are many different views about this. At any rate, it's a demon with no set appearance."
Seiji's eyes flashed with a strange light. "I personally believe that Blue Lantern Ghost is a beautiful female demon and one of the strongest among all demons! That's because she was born from gathering a hundred ghost stories. If you think about it, isn't that equal to the Night of One Hundred Demons? Just this one demon is equal to one hundred demons, so of course she's incredibly strong!"
"Sensei is a beautiful manga author, which could be reworded as 'a beautiful woman who continually tells stories!' Although you don't tell ghost stories, modern-day fantasy manga and anime probably seem similar to ghost stories for ancient people, so it could sort of count as tales of the abnormal."
"A beautiful woman who tells tales of the abnormal receives powerful strength from the Story of One Hundred Demons ritual. If you view it like this, isn't this almost exactly like Blue Lantern Ghost!? You could definitely transform into a powerful beautiful demon!!"
Mayuzumi was rendered speechless by all this.
"Cough cough, excuse me for getting somewhat carried away." Seiji did his best to retract his excitement. "Please don't mind me and treat that as a joke. My thought process suddenly exploded on me, so I apologize."
The manga author chuckled. "Blue Lantern Ghost… a powerful female demon… Honestly, Haruta-kun?"
Technically, telling her to transform into a demon was rather rude, but she didn't dislike it.
'A beautiful and powerful female demon… If I can really transform into something like this, perhaps I'll be able to truly conquer my fear.' Mayuzumi thought of it like this.
The third day in Reo's soul.
After Reo went to school, Seiji took Mayuzumi outside to go meet with the angel-winged "Seiji" and the others.
And then everyone had fun chatting and playing cards together… whoops, Mayuzumi did as Seiji suggested and tried to influence them using her imagination.
After a while, the angel-winged "Seiji" said, "I'm your companion; I'll fight for your sake!"
Seiji decided to create a wooden target dummy with his imagination and asked Mayuzumi to imagine that it was her enemy.
Then, the angel-winged "Seiji" really took action and smashed the target dummy to pieces with a single punch!
After a few more tests, they confirmed that this indeed worked.
Seiji and Mayuzumi were both in high spirits from this.
By the end of this day, Mayuzumi successfully converted "Seiji," "Saki," "Mai," and "Hoshi," to her cause. She now had a total of four characters willing to fight for her, and she even succeeded in increasing their combat strength.
The situation was developing even better than they expected.
The fourth day.
"Chiaki," "Mika," "Kaho," and "Mayuzumi" were also converted successfully.
As planned, Mayuzumi divided them into two small teams of four.
Seiji acted as their opponent for a practice battle.
And he was almost defeated!
Together, these two small teams had excellent combat strength, and he was unprepared for their combination attacks. He had to get serious in order to gain the upper hand.
Seiji gave Mayuzumi a big thumbs-up after the practice fight. "This is great. Let's continue adding companions and creating combat teams."
The manga author revealed a delighted smile.
The fifth and sixth day passed… time marched on just like this.
Mayuzumi converted more and more NPCs every day and continued to increase the strength of her army.
On the other side, Reo grew closer and closer to Seiji and grew to like him more and more.
Every day they would do homework and play games together. Every weekend they would go out to have fun. Together they toured the streets, visited the amusement park, went camping, and explored the aquarium…
Seiji was happy to see the little girl having fun.
Disregarding the nature of their situation, it was actually pretty fun living together with Mayuzumi and Reo.
It was also an experience that gave him... some benefits.
After all, since they were living together, he saw the beautiful manga author in so many different ways. He got to see her while she was cooking, immediately after she finished showering, and when she woke up. On a few occasions, he saw her making silly mistakes, and once he even saw her when she was in the middle of changing her clothes… cough cough, at any rate, he would occasionally get lucky.
Not to mention the gentlemanly benefits such as bathing or hanging panties and bras out to dry. He was truly grateful for these opportunities.
After they felt that it would be okay, Seiji and Mayuzumi moved onto the next phase of their plan.
"I have some things to do, so I won't be coming back tonight. Reo, stay at home and watch the house together with Brother Harano."
Reo was dissatisfied with her "mother's" words, but after Seiji's gentle coaxing, she agreed.
She didn't have any particular reaction to the fact that her "mother" was absent for the entire night. With Seiji accompanying her, the next morning arrived just as normal.
This was a symbolic first step.
Afterwards, Mayuzumi continued to leave the house for extended periods, slowly getting Reo accustomed to the fact that her "mother" would not always be at home.
The next step was to increase the time that Mayuzumi remained away from the house.
At first, it was two days. Then, three days.
During this, Seiji paid close attention to Reo's condition.
Whenever she began to show obvious signs of loneliness, he would come to her room before she fell asleep and tell her stories as a way of coaxing her.
For example, the story of "The Feather Cloak Girl."
The plot was basically about how a boy found an extravagant feather cloak and later met a crying girl. When he asked what was wrong, he learned that she had lost her feather cloak.
The boy returned the feather cloak he picked up to her, causing her to become overjoyed. After she thanked him, she put on the feather cloak and turned into a bird that flew away.
Afterwards, the boy grew into an adult and met a beautiful woman. They fell in love with each other, got married, and gave birth to a cute baby girl.
Later, the husband felt that his wife was keeping a secret from him. He secretly investigated and found that his wife was hiding an extravagant familiar feather cloak, which he took and confronted his wife with. However, his wife gave a deep sigh, put on the feather cloak, turned into a bird, and flew away.
The husband greatly regretted his actions and fell ill as a result. In the end, he died of illness caused by depression.
Their daughter was left all alone and continuously cried.
Finally, their daughter saw a large bird bring a feather cloak to her, and she put it on. She also transformed into a bird and flew away with the large bird.
It was a rather tragic bedtime story, but it was Reo's favorite story. She had Mayuzumi tell it to her countless times already.
Seiji surmised that the feathered woman's ethereal figure he saw in the real world was created from Reo's image of her mother combined with the feather-cloak woman from this story.
This story probably represented one of Reo's deepest memories of her mother Hinako Haza.
He didn't know what the specific connection was. Mayuzumi had asked Reo long ago why she liked this story so much. Her only answer was that she enjoyed listening to it.
"What part of it was enjoyable?" Mayuzumi had asked.
Reo replied by saying that it was enjoyable because it was enjoyable.
This was a complete child's answer. It didn't answer the question at all.
Although Seiji knew that it was probably meaningless, he still tried asking again. "Why do you like this tragic story?"
"Because the mother came back and took her daughter to fly away with her…" Reo muttered.
Then, she blinked and revealed a confused expression.
"What did I say just now, Brother Harano?"
Seiji looked at her and blinked as well. "You said that this story was enjoyable to listen to."
'Reo Tachibana… could her true wish actually be…' He inwardly sighed.
He reached out his hand and patted the girl's head.
"Good night, Reo-chan."
The little girl didn't respond. It seemed that she had fallen asleep.
Seiji got up and left.
After he exited Reo's room and closed the door, some light green feathers quietly appeared, floating in the air for a few brief seconds. After that, they disappeared just as quietly as they had appeared.


Translator note: Apologies to the readers. This series is currently on hiatus. We ask for your understanding!
A 30-year-old Chinese NEET is reincarnated into the body of an otaku that choked to death on instant noodles. As he comes to grips with his new life, he realizes that this world is subtly different from Earth. The denizens of this world are far better looking, and this new world also possesses futuristic technology as well as mysterious Yin Yang masters! 
After reincarnating, he realized that he was endowed with a miraculous game-like system, which enables him to increase his own stats and transcend the limits of the human body. This system even has a game-breaking ability to save and load in real life!
In this new world that’s akin to a 2-D game, he just wants to enjoy life and head for a glorious future... However, he is quickly embroiled in a complex plot. Can he unlock his true potential and utilize his system to break the shackles that confine him and discover the truth about his previous body’s circumstances? 

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