Ling Xiaoqi, the beloved daughter of the Maoshan Sect leader, has loved catching ghosts since childhood. Her magical powers are formidable, and she's so mischievous she could topple the whole peak of Maoshan.
Even more outrageous, a casual joke her father made years ago resulted in her being promised to Su Wenxuan, a scholar from the family of a seventh-rank county magistrate. He's such a coward that he dives under the bed whenever thunder rumbles, afraid there might be ghosts.
On their wedding day, Ling Xiaoqi's dowry list shocks the whole city. Gold and jewels? No thanks! Farmland and shops? She couldn't care less! Her dowry is a three-hundred-year-old zombie named A Jiang, utterly loyal and incredibly strong!
From then on, the Su household is thrown into chaos:
“Husband, do you think this fluttering white silk looks pretty?” Su Wenxuan faints on the spot.
“A Jiang, go buy me some candied hawthorns, and scare your master while you're at it.” A Jiang stiffly nods, and Su Wenxuan climbs a tree and hides there for half the night.
“Father-in-law, don't panic. I'll deal with this evil spirit. Sorry to make my husband faint one more time~”
Su Wenxuan is at his wit's end. “Wife, could you stop using magic to tease me?”
Ling Xiaoqi raises an eyebrow and grins mischievously. “Only if you come ghost-hunting with me, my scaredy-cat husband~”
Who could have guessed that a ghost-fearing scholar, a mischievous immortal wife, and her zombie sidekick would join forces to solve strange cases, take on evil cults, and roam the martial world amid all their laugh-out-loud daily mishaps?
Su Wenxuan: “I may be afraid of ghosts, but I'm even more afraid of making my wife unhappy!”
Ling Xiaoqi: “I may love teasing my husband, but anyone who lays a hand on him will have their soul obliterated!”
A Jiang, silently holding up some glutinous rice: “The young lady is always right. Master-in-law… don't faint. There's plenty of rice.”
This is a funny, sweet romance about a quirky Maoshan girl who brings a zombie as her dowry and spoils (or scares) her timid scholar husband until he becomes a “wife-protecting fanatic.”
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