Rose House: For Three Cents, I Sold Myself

When I met my online boyfriend in person, he turned into an eight-armed centipede demon right in front of me.

I ducked into “Rose House” to escape the rain. A handsome guy in traditional Han clothing took three pennies and gave me three predictions. Every one of them came true, including the last: “Beware of men who are too perfect.”

That night, he tied me to the bed with pink ribbons, stole the jade pendant from around my neck, and collapsed, gravely wounded. Then he crawled back... and tied the pendant around my neck again.

Later, I ended up owing 1.19 million and signed a labor-for-debt contract, becoming an employee of Rose House.

My coworker is a ten-year-old tabby cat who can transform into a glamorous older woman and crush a six-hundred-year-old centipede demon underfoot. The proprietress is a beauty in a qipao, and my ex-boyfriend has become a subject of supervision.

My first assignment: a campus fall-to-her-death case. The female ghost says, “I don't remember how I died.”

As I communicate with spirits and solve cases, I watch the centipede demon who once tried to kill me awkwardly learn to cook, write terrible poems, and draw crooked little hearts in his diary.

He says, “For over six hundred years, all I've wanted is to be human.”

...Until we discover that beneath one urban supernatural legend after another lies a much bigger conspiracy.

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