My Little Ghost

Review My Little Ghost – A Vietnamese ghost BL without cheap horror elements

“My Little Ghost“ (CHÀNG KẸ) is QPlus TV’s second BL series. While the first one, the beautiful “Stand by me“ (ĐẢO NHỎ NUÔI MÈO), is a typical example of Vietnamese BL series as it tells a love story among ordinary people in quite a true-to-life way, “My Little Ghost“ is a mystery story, albeit with a realistic background and with all characters - except the ghost and the representatives of the underworld – being average people. In contrast to other recent BL ghost series, it does without terrifying ghosts and cheap horror elements, but tells the heartwarming story of a pitiful, lovely ghost.

Phong (Bach Kiet) committed suicide seven years ago after his parents kicked him out when they learnt about his gay relationship with Vu (Bui Trung Thai). Since then, he’s been hiding, in the house where he died, while the Unparallaled Black (Mun - Dinh Khanh Dui) and White (Gao - Huy Cao) are waiting in front of the house as their mission is to catch Phong’s soul, as the souls of persons who committed suicide have to be imprisoned in the underworld until the end of their predestined lifespan. The Unparalleled Black and White cannot enter the house as Phong’s soul/ghost is being protected by a talisman.

When a new tenant named Kien (Nguyen Thanh Huy) moves in, who is able to see the ghost, things change dramatically for both Phong’s ghost and Kien. As the ghost cannot remember his life as a mortal, Kien gives him a new name, i.e. Ke. After Ke teases Kien at first, the ghost and the human become friends, and Kien takes Ke to the outside world in an umbrella, protected by the talisman.

When Ke remembers that Mun and Gao told him that reconciling with the persons who suffered after his suicide would spare him imprisonment and would give him the chance to reincarnate, Kien decides to help him find those persons. Ke thinks that it was Vu who suffered the most, but realizes that Vu soon forgot a...