A Boy with a Yin Soul Who Grows Up to Become a Female Jiangshi

(Male soul in a female body + first-person narration)

I was a mistake from the moment I was born: a man with an ill-fated yin destiny, doomed to die before I turned eighteen.

When I was eight, my grandfather, who had been missing for ten years, came back dragging a red coffin. Inside lay the corpse of a stunningly beautiful woman. The old man left me with one instruction: “Sleep with her in your arms once before you turn eighteen.” Then he breathed his last. From that day on, I spent ten years playing pilot with the woman in the coffin.

On the eve of my eighteenth birthday, my father shoved me into the coffin. When I woke up, I had become that female corpse!

I had two extra burdens on my chest, two fangs in my mouth, and an urge to lick people’s blood whenever I saw it. Meanwhile, my original male body was lying in the coffin, waiting to be buried.

My father squatted by the door, smoking. “Your grandfather came to me in a dream. He said that with your yin destiny, you were meant to be a woman.”

Fine. I could accept changing bodies to stay alive. But where did this body come from? What was with the fangs? And why did I crave blood? When Grandpa quit the business all those years ago, how many dark secrets did he hide?

And there was an even bigger problem: all the men in the village had started looking at me strangely. Wang Defa from next door grabbed my butt, and instinctively I elbowed him so hard I broke his nose. Then I saw the blood on his face, and I almost couldn’t stop myself from licking it…