I Scared the Entire Galaxy in Three Sentences

Shang Jingyan, a renowned horror film director from Earth, wakes up in a new body with a traumatic head injury and fragmented memories. She has transmigrated into the body of a seventeen-year-old girl in the Galactic Era, a society obsessed with romance and emotional stimulation. The original host was a failed aspiring Dreamweaver—a creator who produces immersive media to treat Psychic Void Syndrome, a condition causing mental deterioration in the absence of strong emotional experiences. Shang Jingyan is immediately confronted by a system named X71, which tasks her with collecting Heartbeat Points, a currency derived from the physiological reactions of her audience. Her starting score is negative one hundred, and she has thirty days to earn ten points to secure her right to stay in this world permanently. Simultaneously, she faces a pressing debt of thirty thousand star coins owed to loan sharks, forcing her to act quickly.

Recognizing that the interstellar audience is saturated with generic romance content, Shang Jingyan decides to exploit a gap in the market by creating horror. She enters a themed contest requiring a "Married First, Fell in Love Later" narrative and produces a short film titled "Married to an Eldritch God." Using her limited funds to rent actor likenesses and her immense mental power to construct gothic, terrifying dreamscapes, she crafts a story where a man’s wife is revealed to be a monstrous entity. The film subverts audience expectations, replacing romantic warmth with psychological dread and visceral fear. Upon release, the work goes viral, shocking viewers with its novel genre and earning her a massive surge in Heartbeat Points, far exceeding her initial goal. The story also attracts the attention of Ao Qingxue, a former prodigy and current streamer suffering from Void Syndrome, whose mental health improves significantly after watching the film.

As her popularity grows, Shang Jingyan discovers hidden layers to her new identity. She learns that the original host was involved with a clandestine organization and uses the codename "Pan." A young man named You Yao, an actor she had previously hired, visits her and hints at these secret ties, warning her to stay under the radar. Despite the danger, Shang Jingyan remains focused on her career. Her work catches the eye of Chai Yuanlin, the president of the Exile Star System’s Dreamweaver Association, who notes Shang Jingyan’s unique talent despite the controversial nature of her horror themes. Meanwhile, rival Dreamweavers, threatened by her rapid rise, attempt to discredit her by questioning whether her work fits the contest’s romantic theme, sparking online controversy.

A key turning point occurs when Shang Jingyan visits a mental healing clinic for a scheduled appointment. During a session with Dr. Tian Jiangli, she accidentally enters the doctor’s mental landscape and discovers a dark, corrupting mist affecting the physician’s mental core. Realizing her horror creations have a paradoxical healing property, Shang Jingyan projects scenes from her film into the doctor’s mind. The terror inflicted by the Eldritch God imagery purges the corruption and heals the wound, restoring Dr. Tian Jiangli’s mental stability. This event reveals Shang Jingyan’s unique ability to manipulate mental energies through her art, further distinguishing her from other Dreamweavers. The story concludes with the final episode of her film releasing, resolving the narrative cliffhanger where the male lead discovers his wife’s true nature, leaving her fate and Shang Jingyan’s future in the competitive Dreamweaver world uncertain but promising.