The Mystic Master in the 1970s: Fortune-Telling and Gossip, I Do It All

[A cool, irritable occult expert × a pure-hearted, sly mountain god with a rugged charm; small-town gossip in the 1970s + occult face-slapping + mutual devotion]

In her previous life, Jiang Wanning was a max-level occult expert. She opened her eyes in the 1970s to find herself possessed by a bride ghost, pinning He Qingshan, the fiercest, most rugged man in the village, in a haystack and kissing him passionately!

Jiang Wanning: “...” So much for her impeccable reputation. Talk about a humiliating start.

She thought the 1970s campaign to eradicate the Four Olds would banish all evil spirits. Who knew the village would be overflowing with juicy gossip!

She’d just led people to catch her cousin in the act of cheating when she turned around and saw a weasel bowing and begging to be granted human form. Two brothers next door were fighting over a woman, but as Jiang Wanning watched from over the wall, she discovered the woman was a corpse demon swollen with gas. Then, in the middle of the night, a mountain ghost knocked on her door and invited the whole village to a feast...

To stay alive and get her fill of gossip, Jiang Wanning returned to her old trade, smashing a century-old vengeful ghost with one palm and rousing every spirit for miles with a single talisman.

At first, the villagers looked down on her. “You jinx! You’ll get us dragged into a struggle session sooner or later!”

Later, they fell to their knees. “Little ancestor, save us! This gossip is too terrifying for us to handle!”

And later still, the whole village secretly erected a statue of her in the mountain god’s temple.

Jiang Wanning panicked. “Oh no! Superstition is forbidden after the founding of the People’s Republic. I’ve become an illegal wild god!”

But then He Qingshan, the rugged man she’d once kissed by force, pulled her into his arms and stamped her with a divine seal. “What are you panicking for? I’m the mountain god reincarnated. I carved the statue myself. I’m an officially appointed deity, working with the proper credentials!”

Jiang Wanning: “...Could you give me a heads-up before springing a surprise like that? You’re asking for a beating!”

The man covered his face and chuckled. “Got it. I’ll grab my bedding and move into your room right away.”