Stay by My Side (2023)

Anthropology student Gu Bu Xia grew up in a temple and, despite having a spirit medium for a grandfather, has had a lifelong fear of ghosts. Since childhood, he has been shielded from the ghosts by a talisman created by his grandfather. But now his grandfather is dead, and an accident at the temple has reduced the talisman’s effect so that Bu Xia is increasingly tormented by the voices of ghosts that no one else can hear. To add to his woes, Bu Xia finds himself with an unwelcome new roommate, a law student by the name of Jiang Chi, whose cold and studious temperament could not be more different from Bu Xia’s. While trying to get rid of Jiang Chi, Bu Xia makes a chance discovery: that the ghosts are silenced when he is physically close to Jiang Chi. Desperate to keep the ghost voices away, he clings to Jiang Chi… and is thrown into a tailspin when the roommate responds with romantic ardour. How can Bu Xia clear up the confusion? And does he really want to?