聊斋赛博 / Song 010

The Small-Town Test Taker

The tenth song from Liaozhai Cyber closes the first tranche of strange tales. In Pu Songling's original, Ye Sheng is a brilliant scholar who dies of overwork chasing examination success — and returns as a ghost, not knowing he has died, coaching his patron's son to the rank he was never granted. Laoda trades Pu's satire of the examination system for a bleak gut punch: the small-town test taker as collective trauma, the stories that circulate in group chats every exam season and are quietly erased.

Released: August 21, 2026
Format: Digital Edition / CC0
Anthology: 聊斋赛博
Source: Liaozhai Zhiyi · Pu Songling
License: CC0 · No Rights Reserved

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