I, the Last Tomb Raider, Am Being Hounded by a Millennia-Old Corpse King

[A Touch of Lovecraftian Horror + Tomb-Raiding Adventure + Nine Gates Crossover + The Lost Tomb + Candle in the Tomb + Northern School]

Jiang Weiran, the last of the Mojin tomb raiders, only wants to dig up a few grave goods to make ends meet. But in a Yuan-dynasty princess's tomb in western Hunan, he “invites” out a “client” who calls herself Wang Yun.

Her skin is as white as snow and her smile as lovely as a flower. Apart from combing her hair by moonlight in the middle of the night and occasionally treating tomb raiders as snacks, she seems just like anyone else.

“Jiang, according to Article 300 of the Corpse-Driving Sect Employee Handbook, whoever wakes me up is responsible for me.” She tilts her head as her fingernail lightly traces his Adam's apple.

From then on, Jiang Weiran's tomb-raiding adventures take a bizarre turn. Faced with a blood corpse, she debates which piece of rotting flesh is chewier. Trapped in a ghostly maze, she complains that the feng shui setup is a tired cliché. Then they excavate a Buddhist grotto in the Western Regions and see her face on its murals, along with the whispers of ancient gods from the depths of space…

It turns out she never wanted grave goods. She wanted him, and his soul through three lifetimes.

[Reader's Guide]: One-on-one romance, happy ending, mutual salvation. The horror is genuinely scary (best read with the lights on), and the romance is genuinely sweet (may raise your blood sugar). The world is vast, spanning western Hunan and Tibet, Mayan underground tombs and ancient cities beneath the sea.