Chapter 1

Chapter 1

I was holding up my phone, which was live, and reading out the message on the screen.

Sure enough, fans flooded the chat with frantic messages.
“For real? That’s so creepy.”
“Countdown to death? You’re lying! It’s all scripted.”
“Did that cabinet really hide a body?”
“Listen to him brag. If that cabinet had actually held a corpse, the police would’ve taken it as evidence. How could it end up in his hands?”
“Streamer, show us the corpse cabinet and I’ll send you gifts.”
…
I pretended not to see them. I was stringing them along.

I blew a heart at the screen and said, “New folks just tuning in, tap that follow button on the top left. When the live room hits ten thousand viewers, I’ll show you the inside of the cabinet.”

I unhurriedly read out the comments:
“Is the streamer lying?”
I sipped my milk tea, shook my head with a smile, and said, “Bro, you can look it up online. Three years ago, the College Couple Double Homicide Case-the killer hid the bodies right in this redwood cabinet.”
“I got this cabinet through special channels and spent a fortune on it.”
“Everyone has a phone, right? You all can go online, right? There really are rumors online that whoever buys this cabinet won’t live past ten days.”
“I swear on my reputation, last night I really dreamed of a long-haired girl carving numbers into the cabinet, stroke by stroke.”
“Come on, hit that follow button.”

As I spoke, I switched the phone camera and aimed the lens at the redwood cabinet by the wall, then got up and walked over.

“This cabinet is an antique. Look at the color, the grain.”
“Now, I’ll open the cabinet for you guys. The real deal, the actual crime scene!”

I touched the cabinet, opened it a crack, let out an “oh” of surprise, then deliberately shook the phone and screamed in terror, “Shit! What’s this?!”

Before I even finished, I ended the livestream.

Perfect.

That definitely got the fans’ curiosity going.

Sure enough, my phone kept buzzing as over a hundred private messages poured into my DMs.
“Streamer, you okay?”
“What did you see?”
“Ahhhh, streamer, are you still alive? Should I call the cops for you?”
“Holy shit, did you see a ghost?!”
…

I turned off my phone and let out a scoff.
These idiots.
There’s no such thing as ghosts, only people playing tricks.
If you don’t pull stunts like this, where are the views? How do you gain followers?