[Couldn't he just stop fishing?]
[Lmao, if he could resist fishing, he wouldn't have gotten haunted in the first place.]
[+1. Asking an angler to stop fishing is worse than killing him. How do I know? Because I'm an angler too, of course, and as everyone knows, we're everywhere.]
[Leaving everything else aside, anglers really are everywhere. I once saw a whole bunch gathered under a bridge pier, and to this day I still haven't figured out how they climbed down there.]
[It's easy. First you do this, then that, then this...]
[Thanks, kind stranger. I've learned absolutely nothing.]
[...Can we stop with the angler memes? Okay.]
Angler Never Gets Skunked looked at these ridiculous commenters in utter despair.
Was he really never going to be able to fish again for the rest of his life?
The other two buddies sharing his fishing cabin wailed at the same time, as though their parents had died.
After reading the whole story, Qi Gu was speechless. "..."
[Qi Gu Coo Coo Coo (master of Floating Mist Temple): Send me the address privately. No need to sponsor lamps, but once this is resolved, you'll need to donate a year's worth of charity lunches for children in the mountains.]
That way, the merit would be credited to Qi Gu.
Hearing this, the three anglers immediately replied with repeated promises to do so. They practically wanted to drive over right then and bring Qi Gu back to handle it.
Qi Gu: [...We'll talk tomorrow. Surely you can manage one night without fishing?]
[Waaah, Coo Coo is beautiful inside and out.]
[Mostly because this angler didn't say anything too outrageous or insult him. Otherwise, Coo Coo definitely wouldn't have bothered.]
[I can feel the speechlessness in Coo Coo's ellipsis, hahahaha. This must be his first time