Single for Nine Lifetimes, I Drive the Mortal World's Dowry-Seeking Women Crazy

Please understand that any similarities between the characters’ names and those of real people are coincidental. This is a fictional, comedic story.

A note: This novel is even more fun when listened to with a sweet female voice.

The Nine Realms of Singlehood

1. The Solo Dining Realm: Eat alone and sever the bonds of sharing a meal.

2. The Solo Drinking Realm: Drink alone and drown the sorrows of love and family.

3. The Solo Healing Realm: See a doctor alone and overcome the pains of the body by yourself.

4. The Solo Moving Realm: Move house alone, relying on no one else.

5. The Solo Festival Realm: Celebrate alone and learn to take the festivities of family reunions in stride.

6. The Solo Birthday Realm: Celebrate your birthday alone, asking no one for their blessings.

7. The Solo Travel Realm: Travel alone and experience every kind of warmth and coldness in the world.

8. The Solo Recovery Realm: Heal yourself alone, keeping every worry hidden.

9. The Solo Dao Realm: Shoulder everything alone, let go of marriage and betrothal gifts, perfect your Dao heart, and overcome tribulations to become an immortal.

In Nanshanbuzhou, exorbitant betrothal gifts are rampant, and matchmaking has become a frenzied arms race. Countless men are exploited under the shackles of romance and marriage, and a wave of singlehood sweeps across the Four Continents.

The Matchmaker of Heaven witnesses the chaos and is heartbroken, weeping as he reports it to the Jade Emperor. Enraged, the Jade Emperor sends the Thousand-Mile Eye and Wind-Accompanying Ear to the mortal realm to investigate. He then orders Taibai Jinxing to descend and establish the Nine Realms of Solitary Cultivation, creating the Three Realms Solitary Cultivation chat group.

Ye Feifan, a 26-year-old office worker, is humiliated at a matchmaking meeting over exorbitant betrothal gifts and resolutely sets out on the path of solitary cultivation. He eats and drinks alone, heals and saves himself, and exchanges knowledge with immortals in the group, trading fine mortal goods for immortal pills and Dao wisdom.

As men take up cultivation one after another, the marriage market collapses. Women obsessed with marriage find no takers, while those who come to their senses take the initiative to show interest. The immortals watch the whole thing unfold, and the Jade Emperor establishes heavenly rules for marriage. In the end, Ye Feifan perfects all nine realms, overcomes his tribulation, ascends, and becomes a true immortal of the Solo Dao.