Meticulous, highly intelligent chief × laid-back, overwhelmingly powerful big shot
Jiang Linxian, a big shot in the infinite-flow world, cleared the game eight years ago, reached the top of the rankings, and retired in triumph.
His one wish: find a low-risk world, buy a house, lie flat, and live like a lazy fish.
But at the last moment, a bug in the System turned his newly bought mansion into a place where ghosts howled through the night, prompting a flood of complaints from the neighbors.
Lu Zhilan, chief executive officer of the official organization Exorcism Affairs Office, came to investigate in person. He found the whole house battered by explosions, while the owner lounged on the sofa and complained lazily:
"This ghost is so noisy I can't sleep."
Lu Zhilan: "...?"
Their first collaboration was a clash of approaches:
Lu Zhilan: "According to my analysis, we need to draw a formation with cinnabar to make it appear."
Jiang Linxian impatiently pulled out a rocket launcher. "Too much trouble. Let's just blow it up."
Lu Zhilan: "...??"
Worse still, an accident left the two forcibly bound together by a special ghost.
They both grew weak if they got too far apart, and had to complete their missions together!
And so the supernatural world welcomed the most explosive ghost-hunting duo in history:
One used science (physics) to send the dead on their way, while the other used metaphysics to investigate and handle the aftermath.
Boom, boom, boom! Calculate, calculate, calculate!
Word around the industry was that Chief Lu had gained a mysterious outside consultant, whose methods were wild and results excellent.
Only Lu Zhilan knew this consultant wanted just two things every day:
"Have we caught all the ghosts? Can I retire today?"
"Tsk, my partner is handsome and smart, but he works too much... I need to figure out how to lure him into retiring with me."
Ghosts of the supernatural world: You think you're so great! You're incredible! Who's going to pay us compensation for our psychological damages?!
Reader's guide:
1. Romance: plot = 4:6
2. All concepts in the story are made up. Don't take them too seriously.
3. Please avoid extreme shipper wars. Thanks.
4. For specific content warnings, see the author's note in Chapter 1. Thank you for reading.
[Why Does the Leopard I Brought Home Keep Making Noise? Updating Now]
[This Is the Blurb]
A gloomy, hot-blooded, silly uke × a sharp-tongued seme who worries himself sick
After working diligently around the clock for a whole year, office worker Guan Ruiyu suddenly received a will from his "stranger" of a biological grandfather.
Guan Ruiyu: I've been playing the orphan role for twenty years. Where did this grandpa come from?!
Before he could react, the will's executor, the imposing and cool Wu Lian, summarily fired him and forcibly "packed" him off to a mysterious courtyard deep in the mountains.
Guan Ruiyu: A forced sale? This desolate backwater... Wait! The mountain is full of rare fruit, there's a cozy little courtyard, and... cats everywhere?!
Pet cats, sell fruit, gather honey.
Pastoral life, here I come! ^o^
Yet under the calm surface, undercurrents were stirring.
Guan Ruiyu gradually noticed the mountain's strange features: space seemed to warp in certain places, and traces of creatures unlike anything ordinary occasionally flashed through the woods.
Even more unsettling, the notes his grandfather left behind alluded cryptically to a truth that overturned everything he knew: this mountain was a fragile gateway connecting to another world,
a world belonging to beastfolk.
His own origins were deeply entangled with the world beyond that door.
As the first clues emerged, he found a critically endangered, magnificent snow leopard deep in the orchard.
His instinct to pet cats overcame his reason, and he brought it home to care for it.
But this "big cat" was strangely averse to having the tip of its tail touched, and its gaze was so sharp...
It looked just like Wu Lian, the man who had thrown him into the mountains?
Then one morning, the fluffy warm bundle in his arms vanished, replaced by a silver-haired beauty lounging half-reclined.
Wu Lian ran a fingertip across his palm and said something shocking: "Go ahead, touch me. Why'd you stop? Great Savior, isn't your exclusive 'mount' soft enough for you?"
Guan Ruiyu: (°Д°) Mount??? Great Savior... M-me?!
Extra scene:
Guan Ruiyu (busy petting the leopard): Big cats are the best. You can pet them from head to tail, and they feel amazing! Way better than little kitties!
Wu Lian (getting turned on and increasingly unhinged): Once you're done petting me, it'll be my turn to pet you.
Theme: Life never ends.
