Yun Chuqing, a lazy Daoist nun, lives by two principles:
First, if lightning can do the job, don’t waste words.
Second, never pass up a profitable business.
With five copper coins and a greedy weasel spirit, the poorest (but toughest) little Daoist nun of Qingyun Temple sets out to make her fortune:
Professional ghost exorcisms, honest prices for all (ferocious ghosts can even be skewered and grilled for a late-night snack)
VIP afterlife services (a guided tour of the Eighteenth Level of Hell included)
Bounties on scumbag fathers (turn one into fireworks and sell tickets to the show)
But plans never keep up with reality:
The wolf cub she picked up on the road and took as a disciple keeps trying to chew on her magical artifacts.
The Holy Maiden she recruited from the Hehuan Sect gossips about her love life every day.
Worst of all is Prince Zhou Xuanheng, frail on the surface but unhinged underneath.
“Darling,” he says with a dangerous smile, swirling his blood-jade cup, “is your blood sweeter, or your lightning?”
“Get lost!” Yun Chuqing sends a bolt of lightning his way. “Pay the rest of what you owe for that ghost exorcism first!”
When the lingering soul of the mother in her copper bell awakens and the Netherworld Sect’s conspiracy comes to light, this bickering couple has no choice but to join forces:
Beat up the scumbag Imperial Preceptor
Expose the Imperial Astronomical Bureau’s schemes
And save the world while they’re at it
The weasel in the first story captures all kinds of girls and is even adopted by the heroine as her little brother, which greatly avoids lightning.
In many such novels, the male and female protagonists are dependent on each other for life and death. I hope that the heroine will live happily forever, and I hope that the author writes a different novel