Its sharp nails went wild, groping their way from the head of the bed, inch by inch, toward the foot.

[AHHHH!!!!]

[Host, help! Aahh, save the young lady!]

[Nooo, I’m so spooked. The sense of dread from this ghost is overwhelming.]

Su Nian’s hands moved. She immediately burned a piece of talisman paper and began chanting an incantation.

Visibly, the female ghost’s movements grew slower and slower until she froze solid. But even so, her eyes, hidden behind a thick curtain of hair, were still fixed intently on Qing Huan.

Her stiff body dissipated bit by bit, until the dark figure had completely vanished over ten minutes later.

The viewers in the livestream held their breath, not daring to make a sound. It was only after seeing the eerie figure slowly fade away that the bullet comments became active again.

[I’m so scared!]

[I can even imagine it standing at the head of my own bed right now.]

[When it spoke just now, my heart seriously stopped. It was too scared to even beat.]

[So scary, so scary.]

Su Nian then burned two more sheets of talisman paper. As she waited for them to turn to ash, the blurry dimness in the room began to lift.

Without the oppressive presence of the ghost, even the darkness seemed to feel a little lighter.

But Qing Huan still didn’t dare to move. ’Who would have thought that ghost would actually find me?’

Su Nian: "Alright, you can stop hiding. I’m coming to pick you up now."

[The Heavenly Venerate is so nice!]

[I learned a new trick: sleeping upside down!]

[Yeah, yeah, if you sleep upside down the ghost can’t find you.]

[I’m such a genius. I’ve learned something new again.]

Seeing the viewers feeling proud of their clever discovery, Su Nian reminded them, "Don’t think that if a ghost comes, sleeping at the foot of the bed will save you. Sleeping upside down also attracts ghosts."

[I slept upside down the day before yesterday and ended up with a high fever and felt awful.]

[My mom knows a bit about this stuff too. She also says sleeping upside down is bad and makes it easy for ghosts to bewitch you.]

[Huh? Then why was she okay sleeping upside down? And she even dodged the ghost.]

Su Nian shook her head and explained, "She attracted the ghost because this house wasn’t clean to begin with. On top of that, by sleeping upside down, she reversed yin and yang, making it even easier to attract ghosts."

"Besides, if a ghost catches you while you’re sleeping upside down, the consequences are much worse. In a normal ghost encounter, getting a scare and losing a bit of your lifespan is already a huge deal. But if you’re caught sleeping upside down, it’s a question of whether you’ll even live to see tomorrow."

[I get it. It’s all down to luck.]

[I think so too. Because when the ghost realized she was sleeping upside down, it got really excited.]

[I’m still terrified thinking about it. If it had really found her head, who knows what horrible thing would have happened.]

[Would it have crushed her head? That’s horrifying.]

"Alright, that’s all for today’s stream. If anyone has an urgent matter, you can come line up at the Daoist Temple early tomorrow morning."

After saying that, Su Nian ended the stream and drove off to pick up Qing Huan.

It took Su Nian almost an hour to drive from the brightly-lit, bustling city center to a dilapidated highway.

Because few cars used this road, it wasn’t regularly maintained. The road surface was full of potholes, and the streetlights were in a state of utter disrepair, not giving off a single speck of light. 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮

Su Nian drove along normally. But as she was passing through a completely dark stretch of road, a man in a blue robe blocked her path.

The man was very strange. He just stood there, ramrod straight, in the middle of the road. His head was lolling, and his complexion was a deathly, ashen gray.

The area under his eyes was a mass of dark, bruised-looking discoloration.

Without a second thought, Su Nian started a livestream.

[Didn’t the host just go offline?]

[Looks like night owls get all the luck! I managed to catch another one of the master’s streams.]

[Master, aren’t you on your way to pick up Qing Huan?]

[Hey, something’s not right. You guys see what’s standing in the road?]

Su Nian looked at the ghostly thing, turned the wheel slightly, and drove around it.

’If it knows when to back down and disappears now, it can consider its life spared. But if it has a death wish, then it can’t blame me for being ruthless.’

The viewers were seasoned veterans by now. Seeing something like this on Su Nian’s stream didn’t even faze them.

They even started critiquing the ghost.

[Too skinny. Fail!]

[Complexion’s too pale. Fail!]

[Ugly! Fail!]

[Standing in the middle of the road. Fail!]

[Is it trying to scare the host? Isn’t it worried about getting run over?]

Su Nian kept driving. Less than ten minutes later, the same man appeared again in the middle of the road, blocking her path.

Only this time, the style of his clothes was different.

Su Nian’s lips curled into a smirk. ’This ghost really has a death wish.’

She gunned the engine and drove straight at the strange man.

[What’s going on? I just joined the stream, is the host livestreaming a murder?]

[You new here? Just keep watching!]

[Livestreaming a murder? Nah, this host is better known for livestreaming ghost abuse.]

[The more I hear, the more confused I get.]

Although he looked like a living, breathing person, Su Nian’s car passed straight through him without the slightest bump.

[??? What the hell, was that a hologram or something?]

[Bingo, you got it. It really is a ghost.]

This time, Su Nian sped the rest of the way until she picked up Qing Huan.

"Su Nian, what took you so long! I was scared to death."

Her fear was clearly genuine. In just those few moments, she was constantly glancing around, terrified of seeing something bizarre.

Su Nian saw she was draped in a thin shawl with a hole in it. For once, she didn’t mock her. "Alright, get in the car!"

Perhaps it was because Su Nian made her feel so safe, but she started to doze off as soon as she got in the car.

Su Nian’s stream was still on, but since nothing exciting was happening, the viewers were just chatting casually.

But as they drove onto that same stretch of road, the already broken streetlights began to flicker, as if foretelling some ominous event.

CRACKLE... CRACKLE...

[I’ve got a bad feeling about this.]

[Psh, this is normal. The ghost is about to make its appearance.]

[It’s been a while since I’ve seen this kind of drama. I’m actually a little excited. I wonder how the host is going to beat up this ghost today.]

Su Nian kept driving as the eerie atmosphere grew thicker, eventually becoming so intense that it woke the soundly sleeping Qing Huan.

She clutched the tattered blanket warily.

"My landlady told me someone died here just a few days ago. I heard it was a drunkard. His arms and legs were broken, and he was thrown onto this road. By the time he was found, he’d been run over so many times he was just pulp."

Su Nian’s expression was blank, completely unfazed. Qing Huan, on the other hand, couldn’t help but shiver.

[In this kind of atmosphere, is it really a good idea to talk about that?!]

[I’m scared, but I also really want to watch.]

[I’m just watching with my leg shaking, not panicking at all. In the host’s stream, I’ve seen all kinds of ghosts. What’s there to be afraid of with this one?]

[That’s right, I’m not scared at all. In fact, I think this is nothing special.]

[Careful you don’t get struck by lightning for showing off.]