I'm in a Reading Slump: Any Fantasy Novels About Fox or Snake Spirits That Aren't Scary? 书荒了最近，有没有狐仙蛇仙那种玄幻但不吓人的书
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Nine Serpents Carry the Coffin 九蛇抬棺
When I was born, my father cut off several snakes with a knife. Ever since then, I’ve often dreamed at night of a huge black snake coiling around me, squeezing the breath from my lungs as if it were taking revenge. On my eighteenth birthday, the villagers tied me up and sent me to the mountain behind the village…
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Dragon God, Send Your Proposal, and I’ll Take the Sedan Chair 龙神请聘，夫人上轿
[A touch of mystery, the supernatural, and possessiveness. Marriage before love. Plot first, romance second. Sweet and sugary.] Born at noon, fated to yin, a thunderclap shakes the world. My birth was said to herald disaster. The villagers feared me, and my parents hated me. So, when I was just a month old, my father threw me into the mountains to fend for myself. Thankfully, my grandmother saved me. She told me that, to keep me alive, she had promised me in marriage to the Dragon God…
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Aroused by My Cold, Sinister Black Serpent Husband! 诱爆，阴冷黑蟒老公！
(Sweet, flirtatious romance; possessive, obsessive love) A thousand years ago, Jiang Tian was a human princess. To protect her people, she married a giant black python that had lived for ten thousand years. When the python was about to ascend to dragonhood, she killed him. Clutching his corpse, she wept in anguish. "Only after you died did I dare to love you. I swear, in my next life, I never want to be a human princess again." She wished to become his wife in her next life, to cherish and love
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Ghost King Husband, Don't Be Like This 鬼王老公别这样
A livestream takes a turn when a ghost starts haunting me! To escape alive, I prayed to Buddhas and immortals until I obtained a secret art for exorcising ghosts. Tonight, I hold a seal-breaking dagger and wait for the monsters to come to their deaths. Sure enough, one appears, and I brandish the dagger. But... “Why isn't it working?!” “Heh, darling, you're so charming when you're scared and angry.”
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My Husband Is the King of the Underworld 我的老公是冥王
When I was eighteen, I pushed open a door in a daze. I never imagined that the person behind it would use my entire family’s lives to force me to marry him…
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The Snake’s Delight 蛇欢
My life belongs to a snake. From the day I was born, Grandma sold me to a snake. I grew up sleeping in a dead person's coffin and shedding snake skin, living as a freak. For the snake's sake, Grandma taught me to be a shamanic healer and save others, though I could never save myself. It wasn't until I received my first patient on the day I came of age that I finally learned what Grandma and the snake had agreed upon...
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On Our Wedding Night, My Scheming Husband Held Me and Whispered Sweetly 新婚夜，腹黑老公抱着我低声轻哄
My name is Lu Xiyu, and I come from a family of haunted-house sleep testers. I once took a high-paying job: spend one night sleeping in a hilltop villa, and walk away with a hefty fee. Who could have guessed that testing the bed would turn into being bedded? There really was a ghost in that huge villa bed! It feared neither daylight nor talismans, and kept me entangled with it until dawn!
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After Coming of Age, I Became the Snake Lord’s Most Beloved 成年后，我成了蛇君大人的心头肉
People from Northeast China don’t eat wild animals. The big ones are too strong to beat, and the little ones are all spirits! But my great-great-grandfather refused to believe it and caught a giant snake. From then on, strange things kept happening to the Shen family for generations. Then, when I turned eighteen, I learned firsthand what it meant to pay for his actions…
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The Snake Marriage 蛇婚
Ever since I turned eighteen, I’ve kept having the same dream. Opera songs drift through it, singing, “Snakes bear the palanquin, ghosts escort the bride!” I was born with an ominous fate and a strange destiny, and I have a pair of yin-yang eyes that let me see ghosts from childhood. They say that on the night I was born, snakes swarmed everywhere, pouring into the house from the front and back. Only after I came into the world did they turn toward me, bow their heads three times, and leave. The
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The Demon Lord Is Here 妖君在上
In the thirteenth year of the Republic, with the country in turmoil, Shen Lingyin was born in an isolated village surrounded by strange legends. When she came of age, the villagers chose her as a sacrifice, but she unexpectedly uncovered a secret buried for a thousand years... Born at midnight on the second day of the second lunar month in the Year of the Tiger, she was chosen by fate, yet doomed to bring disaster. To survive, she forms an alliance with a mysterious man and walks the razor's edg
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The Snake Wife 阴蛇妻
My name is Su Xue. I was slow to develop as a child, and I’m not very smart. My grandpa was a Yin-Yang Master. Out of a moment of kindness, he saved someone, but a snake spirit tricked him, leading to my grandma’s tragic death. In his fury, he burned every snake on the entire back mountain. To avoid revenge from the Snake Venerable of the serpent clan, he sent me straight to a psychiatric hospital, then vanished with my parents. They say that before the mentally ill, all evil spirits are nothing
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My Husband Comes from the Underworld 我的夫君他来自地府
I've been unlucky since I was little. I'm said to bring misfortune to my husband and children, and my father even used me to pay off a debt of yin energy he owed. When I came of age, he showed up to make me honor the contract we made back then. After that, my mother was near death, my father disappeared, and one friend after another ran into trouble...
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Doted on Too Much by My Nonhuman Husband 被非人老公过分宠爱
[Satisfying romance + sweet doting love + supernatural + scheming] Because of my unusual constitution and fate, my grandfather arranged a marriage for me before he died. He only appears at night, and loves kissing, cuddling, and lifting me up in his arms! And wherever he appears, all sorts of bizarre events follow! It wasn’t until the very end that I discovered he had been with me because...
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Help! My Aloof Nine-Tailed Fox Husband Doted Me Back into My True Form 救命，被高冷九尾狐老公宠出真身
Cheerful, adorable doctor * cunning fox-like professor “Xixi, pay attention to me.” “Xixi, give me a hug.” “Xixi, mwah.” Lu Xi, a veterinarian, knows only that little animals love cuddling up to her. She never expected the professor she works with to be such a sweet-talking flirt. Linghu Yan, a leading geneticist, has an exquisite, otherworldly face and an aloof, self-possessed air like a holy man who has transcended the mortal world. He could make any living creature renounce worldly desires. B
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Luring Her into Sweet Surrender: The CEO's Snake-Husband Bride 诱她沉欢，霸总蛇夫的冲喜新娘
He Huan encountered a spirit snake transforming into a dragon, and that very night, it wrapped itself around her. It took full advantage of her, then shamelessly claimed it was repaying a debt of gratitude. He Huan suffered in silence as the snake clung to her. After her fiancé cheated on her with her despicable stepsister, she married Long Tingye, the notorious playboy of the capital, in a fit of anger. She had heard that Long Tingye had accidentally fallen into the water three years ago and be
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Married to a Dragon 嫁龙作夫
The year I was born, a dragon fell from the sky and landed in the mountains behind our village. Eighteen years later, my grandmother hanged herself from the crooked locust tree at the village entrance with a length of rope. The villagers all said the Dragon King was taking a bride, and that my grandmother had defied him and suffered retribution. After the entire village nailed me into a black coffin and buried me alive, that thing violated me. Only then did I realize that things were far more co
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Snake Immortal 蛇仙
[The animated series Seven Days of Snake Entanglement is now streaming] My name is An Xin. On the day of the “Azure Dragon Wedding,” my great-grandfather killed a green snake and a white snake. The villagers said they were about to grow horns, transform into flood dragons, ascend, and become snake immortals. The night I was born, my grandfather knelt in the Snake Temple all night before my mother could give birth to me. He died in the temple. Ever since I was little, a snake has appeared in my d
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The Dragon King's Bride 龙王聘
That year, I came down with a strange illness that nothing could cure. Then, on the night the blood moon hung high in the sky, my family decorated the house with lanterns and streamers. From that day on, I had a husband no one could see. Around that time, my mother warned me gravely that I must remain faithful to my husband and keep my distance from other men, or disaster would befall me! When I was nineteen, I broke the taboo, and he... appeared.
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Three Dreams Entwined with a Snake 蛇缠三梦
I was born on the day of spring thunder, when snakes and insects stir back to life. Two red spots marked my wrist from birth, like a pair of vivid cinnabar moles, or two fresh, blood-red bite marks. From then on, every Dragon Boat Festival, countless snakes would gather at my home to pay homage. When I came of age, the snakes carried in a blood-red pearl. After that, strange events began happening one after another in the village, all of them connected to a secret the old folks spoke of. Some sa
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Hail the Corpse Ancestor: My Wife Has Married into the Underworld 尸祖在上：娇妻亿嫁冥界
[Yandere corpse ancestor × teasing little troublemaker] They say Boyou, the corpse ancestor of the Netherworld, is cruel and heartless, but no one knows about the pathological possessiveness hidden beneath his outward appearance. He spies on her, schemes against her, and even hurts himself to play the victim, all to make her fall for him. She keeps causing trouble to make him hate her, only to bring disaster down on herself. On an utterly ordinary night in the Netherworld, a certain corpse ances
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This Huang Daxian Is a Bit of a Goofball 这个黄大仙有点嘚儿
No specialist knowledge here, just a story. [A little horror + a whole lot of comedy + no female lead, no romance] When I was a kid, I took a nighttime shortcut and saw a weasel worshipping the moon. Remembering a story my grandma had told me, I worried it might ask me to grant it a title, so, on a whim, I shouted at it first: “Weasel! Do I look more like a person or a god to you?” The weasel froze for a moment, then said I looked like a dumbass! But from that day on, I really did become an idio
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Admiration 慕色
[One True Pairing | Secret Identities | Past and Present Lives | Happy Ending] [Alluring, flirtatious female assassin × proud, pure-hearted white fox] ※ On a rainy night, she had just finished a mission, and there was no time to wash the blood from her body. It trickled down her leather skirt and dripped onto the ground with the rain. Holding a black umbrella, she found a fox beside a trash can in a rundown alley in the city and took him in. Little did she know he had already planned everything,
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On My Wedding Night, the Domineering CEO Snake Husband Whispered Sweet Nothings to Me 新婚夜，我被霸总蛇夫低声诱哄
“Snuggle with me, hubby~” Bai Yuehan was always afraid his sweet little wife would discover his true identity. Then one day, he accidentally revealed his true form in front of her. She wasn't scared at all. Instead, she wrapped her arms around his huge head and kissed him senseless. “Mwah! Snuggle with me, hubby~” Come on, having a super-rich CEO snake monster for a husband is so cool! (^-^)V Meng Jiaoyang isn't afraid of snakes. When she got lost in the forest as a child, a snake rescued her, t
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My Ghostly Husband, Don’t Be So Bad 鬼神老公，别太坏
[Devoted Couple + Supernatural Mysteries + Ghost-Hunting + Lots of Fun Tropes + Strong-Willed Heroine + Utterly Devoted Husband] My name is An Ning. I was born on Ghost Festival and carry a demon eye, so everyone thinks I'm cursed. Since childhood, a mysterious man I couldn't see has saved my life again and again. He told me, "If you want me to protect you forever, we have to make a marriage pact when you turn twenty." Then, on my twentieth birthday, my demon eye went out of control. I had a dan
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On the Second Day of the Second Month, I Marry the Dragon King 二月初二，嫁龙王
Ever since I turned eighteen, I’ve had shameful erotic dreams every night. In them, I spend day and night entwined with a man dressed in black, with dark hair. My grandmother, the last shaman in the village, said I was the reincarnation of a deer spirit. In my previous life, I sealed an evil river dragon with a virgin’s blood; in this life, I was destined to live alone, and must never break my vow of chastity! On the second day of the second lunar month that year, as the dragon raised its head,
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The Fox Who Bewitched My Heart 狐惑我心
[Mysticism + Ghost Marriage + Feng Shui + Devoted Husband + Male Rivals] My stepmother and younger sister teamed up to sell me to northern Myanmar, where I was to serve as a living lotus offering to an evil god. By day, I was beaten and forced to do hard labor. Every night, I had to spend hours entangled with a red-robed, silver-haired man. He said we had made a promise in a previous life, and forced me to marry him in a wedding ceremony at a Fox Immortal Temple. But I knew the red-robed man was
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Married to a Snake 与蛇为妻
The fourteenth day of the seventh month, an auspicious day. The Snake Immortal is taking a bride. All bystanders must keep away. I was born unlucky. My mother died in childbirth, and I stopped breathing, too. My grandmother found a Snake Immortal to breathe life into me, but a patch of python-scale patterns appeared over my heart. When I was eight, a man in a dark jade robe came before me. He told me that he would come to marry me ten years later. In the blink of an eye, ten years had nearly pas
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The Dragon King Sends a Betrothal Gift, and Nine Foxes Escort the Bride 龙王下聘，九狐送嫁
My name is Wen Shiqi. I'm an orphan, but on my wedding day, nine foxes escort the bridal sedan, a hundred pythons march in formation, and ten thousand birds welcome me home. When I was ten, I fell into the Changning River and accidentally broke his seal, becoming the bride promised to him. From then on, the pupil of my right eye was shattered, and I could see every demon and evil spirit in this world. Ten years later, he came to find me. He said he would save me and lead me onto the right path.
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The Outcast: Fake Hu Nik Binding to a Real Fox Immortal System 一人，假胡尼克绑定真狐仙系统
Tags: Period setting, System, Portable space, Power fantasy, Stockpiling goods and grain, The Outcast fanfiction, Folk immortals, Supernatural abilities, Resisting the Japanese invasion and saving the people Out there, you can call me a fox spirit all you want. I won’t hold it against you. But here in Changbai Mountain, what should you call me? Lord Fox Immortal! Hu Yiming accidentally transmigrates while cosplaying Nick Wilde, arriving in the remote mountains of Northeast China in 1931.
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A Decree from the Underworld 阴司有旨
Before Grandpa died, he gave me a strange ledger. The first page bore four eerie characters: “Filed with the Underworld.” And the entries weren't sums of money, but “lives.” I used that strange ledger to collect debts and settle accounts on Grandpa's behalf, and it was as if I'd become a living judge of life and death in the human world. Somewhere beyond mortal sight, everything had already been decreed...
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Beast Taming: Starting as a Beast 御兽：从被御开始
[Urban fantasy, pet beasts, special abilities, beast-eared boy, sweet romance, everyone’s favorite, everyday life] The worldline of Blue Star shifted, turning it into a world filled with countless wondrous creatures, secret realms, and beast-taming technology. These creatures could all become pet beasts. Humans who contracted, raised, and directed pet beasts were known as “trainers” or “beast tamers.” There were many ways to contract pet beasts, from ancient rituals to modern beast-taming spaces
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This Spirit Medium Is Pretty Powerful! 这个出马仙有点强！
A piece of red cloth, three feet and three inches long. The old hall's people, the old hall's immortals. One day, when they emerge from the depths of the mountains, their names will spread far and wide! I was born in a rural village in Northeast China in the 1980s. When I was seven, a spirit medium said I was fated to suffer three calamities and eight misfortunes, and would one day become a horse-riding shaman. I didn't believe it, but hardship kept finding me. To make a living, I worked as a wa
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Notes from the Northeast's Top Spirit-Medium Clan 东北第一堂口出马笔记
“First, invite Hu; second, invite Huang. Third, invite Mang; fourth, invite Chang. Offer incense in the hall, and let all the immortals come forth.” With an entirely yin birth chart, I suddenly became the village's most despised madman when I was eight years old. Ten years later, I recovered from my madness and took charge of the Hu family's altar, one of the five great immortal clans of Northeast China. From then on, the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies followed me everywhere. I thought I had
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The Heaven-Ordained Spirit Medium 天命出马仙
When I was five, an old beggar showed up at our door and insisted that one day I would marry a snake as my wife...
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My Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 我出马的二十年
After cultivating his character deep in the mountains, he emerged from an ancient cave to make a name for himself across the land. In twenty years as a spirit medium, he has overcome countless obstacles and witnessed countless events. This true account of those twenty years offers insight to readers unfamiliar with the profession and shares experience with fellow practitioners.
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My Three Lives and Three Worlds 我的三生三世啊
A fantastical tale, all beginning with two bowls of expired Meng Po soup. By the time my hair reaches my waist, the soup's effects will have slowly worn off, and love will have quietly found its way to me! But can love really overcome every obstacle?
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A Few Things from the Underworld 地府里的二三事
As a disciple of the Ma family with more than twenty years of experience in spirit-medium work, I've written this book based on what I know. Some of it is true, some of it false, and some lies in between. Whether you can understand it is up to your own fate!
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Urban Tales of a Grand Spirit Master 都市之我是大灵师
Urban + Cultivation + Supernatural + Horror I was just an ordinary city dweller, but I once robbed tombs and carried corpses. Then a book belonging to the old master sent me down a path that took my life far off course.
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The Fox King's Wife 狐王妻
❤️ My name is Lu Qingyang. On the day of Jingzhe, my mother secretly gave birth to me in an abandoned Fox Immortal temple. The villagers bullied me and called me a fox demon that ate people's eyes. They dug out my left eye, then summoned a Taoist priest to call down lightning and kill me. When I grew up, a bizarre blood-red image of a fox worshipping the Big Dipper appeared on my waist. From then on, misfortune followed me everywhere. To find the mysterious man who stole my eye, I met the Fox Ki
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The Yin-Born Girl and Her Snake King Betrothed 阴生女，蛇王聘
The day I was born, the Imperial Star entered my fate, and a hundred ghosts clung to me. To keep me alive, my grandmother summoned the most powerful guardian spirit in the north to suppress my fate. With a python as my master, I became a spirit medium, learned the ways of yin and yang and the Eight Trigrams, and traveled across the land to protect the world. Under my master's protection, I became a generation's greatest prodigy. But in doing so, I also glimpsed secrets and heavenly mysteries I w
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The Allure of the Fox 狐香引
When I was eighteen, my grandma passed away. I inherited the spirit hall and became a female disciple who served the immortals. Thus began my strange journey in their company, and my fate changed forever...
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The Fox's Seduction 狐诱
Twenty years ago, my father brought home a mute woman. From then on, men in the village began dying in mysterious ways… They said my mother was a wicked fox spirit who brought harm to others. No, my mother was the Great Fox King, chosen by Heaven. The Fox King bore a daughter, and the new king ascended the throne. Beneath all of Heaven, our king rules. The harem matters just as much as the people! An angsty romance dressed up as a wish-fulfillment blurb. Come on in, everyone!
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Fox Mountain Ritual 狐山祭
I was a child brought home by a wildcat. Little did I know that my arrival would bring my family an inescapable run of bad luck. Later, by a strange twist of fate, I was taken in by a fox immortal as graceful as jade and brought to his immortal mountain. From then on, I became the temple maiden who guarded his shrine. “Lingcai, Lingcai. It means lively and brilliant, full of spirit; it also means all living things, flourishing in their splendor. In the broadest sense or the narrowest, it is all
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The Dragon King’s Embryo 龙王胎
In 1934, my grandmother witnessed a strange dragon-fall incident with her own eyes... Many years later, scales began to grow on my body. Worse still, I somehow became pregnant with a monster! I lead troops, run an incense hall, and carry out the rituals. I'm a female shaman, and my husband is the Dragon King!
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Secrets of the Northern Steed 北马秘闻
After spending seven years in a daze as a fool, I was told by the Yellow Immortal that I had a spirit altar within me, and that my origins were far from ordinary. From then on, I set out on the Northern Ma path.
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The Fox Bride 狐嫁女
Eighteen years ago, my grandfather offended a Hu fairy in the mountains and suffered its frenzied revenge. Eighteen years later, to settle the score, I was forced to marry the beast that ruined my family, serve as its spirit medium, and become the most powerful spirit medium across the vast black soil! Please help me with the spirit-invocation chant: Golden incense burner, silver incense whip, set aside the sea-sized bowl and let the incense smoke rise; Offer red beams and clear water to the
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The Divine Qilin 麒麟神相
I was born with a Qilin by my side. To save me, my grandfather peeled off his own human skin and gave it to a nine-tailed fox. That day, dead trees bloomed again, and all the beasts came to pay their respects!
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The Mountain Wanderer 走山人
Three years after I died, I climbed out of my grave. I set out on the path of a spirit medium and made my name roaming the mountains. Grandpa said I was half-dead, with no taboos to hold me back!
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Ghost Shop No. 81 81号鬼事铺
Night blankets the city, and the things lurking in the shadows begin to stir. The raccoon dog granny who eats raw meat, the fitness girl with fish scales growing on her back. The wild foxes who approach people by the roadside, and the little convenience store in the cemetery. I've experienced all of these. And it all began after I witnessed a car accident...
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Northern Ma, Southern Mao: Zhang Jiuyan Gets It All 北马南茅：张九炎全占了
Join the Old Immortal in gathering merit and spreading blessings across the land! Anyone with a “little circle” on them is there to help others. This is a little master who is both rather laid-back and a bit of a slacker, “part Taoist, part Marxist,” and specializes in helping people solve their problems and helping the Old Immortal accumulate merit! He’s also an expert at exposing fakes! Ha, take that, take that, take that, take that, take that, take that!
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