Dude, I Turned Into a Ghost

Jiang Xiaoxiao had a nemesis.

The campus heartthrob of Jiangcheng No. 1 High School, Su Cixing.

Every time the grades came out, he was always first and Jiang Xiaoxiao was second.

Whenever Su Cixing saw him, he always had a smile on his face.

Jiang Xiaoxiao instantly bristled. Damn, he's mocking me again.

On the day of their high school graduation,

Jiang Xiaoxiao challenged Su Cixing to a fight, only to end up pinned in a corner, unable to move.

He couldn't beat him at school or in a fight. What a failure of a life.

During summer vacation, Su Cixing went to Jiang Xiaoxiao's house to see him. He found Jiang Xiaoxiao fighting two burglars who had broken in, then watched him lose his footing and fall from the sixth floor.

"Xiaoxiao!!!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao was rushed to the emergency room and became a vegetable. Strangely, he had no breath, but his heart was still beating. The doctors were terrified, and no one cared for him at the hospital.

Only Su Cixing stayed by his bedside. "Xiaoxiao... please don't scare me."

Two months later, the new college semester began.

One dark, windy night, Su Cixing was asleep in his dorm when he suddenly felt a hand tighten around his neck. He couldn't move and could barely breathe, as if he were pinned down by a ghost.

Jiang Xiaoxiao sat on his waist. "Heh heh. Don't sleep too soundly tonight. I'm back."

Su Cixing's eyes widened in terror. "A ghost!!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao touched his own face in confusion. "Huh? Buddy, I'm a ghost now... How can you see me?"

Su Cixing suddenly grabbed his hand and kissed the boy's cold knuckles. "Xiaoxiao! Is it really you...? You're back..."

Turns out, when it's someone you love, even a ghost isn't scary.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyes widened. Why was his nemesis kissing him?

[The one being pursued can only hide in dark places during the day] Su Cixing (xíng)

1v1 short, happy ending. A little ghost story. Both are each other's first. Nemeses become lovers.

Gentle, loyal campus heartthrob, pursuer X cheerful, sunny school bully, pursued.

Here's a preview of my next, longer novel.

Powerful, gentle Daddy-type pursuer X frail, sickly, sweet beauty pursued.

Lu Shiying was mature and steady, refined and aloof, the young heir of Jiangcheng. He controlled assets worth hundreds of billions and was the sole heir to the Shiying Group. At sixteen, he took over the company and became its highest authority.

Jiang Ci had a blood-clotting disorder from childhood, leaving him frail. When he was five, his parents died in a plane crash, and he was left in the care of his elderly grandfather. He was always falling ill.

Jiang's father and Lu's father had been brothers in arms, and Jiang's father had even saved Lu's father's life. So Lu's father asked his son to bring the Jiang family's child home and raise him.

The first time Lu Shiying met him, he was sixteen, and the little guy was only five.

"Daddy." The five-year-old hugged his leg. No wonder his name was Jiang Ci. He was as soft as a little rice cake.

Lu Shiying crouched down and gently stroked the boy's tousled hair. The last time he'd seen the little guy, he had been two. Now, with no family left, he was truly pitiful. "Call me Big Brother."

Jiang Ci rubbed his little head against Lu Shiying's leg. "Daddy."

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Lu Shiying never expected that a tiny cut would land his little brother in the hospital. Between the stay, medicine, and injections, the child cried so hard his face was streaked with tears. From then on, Lu Shiying began keeping a close eye on him.

The young Master Lu started learning to cook because he didn't want Jiang Ci eating food from outside.

The young Master Lu, who had never lifted a finger around the house, personally bathed and dressed the little guy and took him to school. He didn't trust anyone else with the job.

When the weather turned cold, Jiang Ci was wearing too little. While he was in class, Lu Shiying suddenly showed up at the school. The principal came out personally to greet him, only for the young Master Lu to put a heavy padded coat and scarf on his little brother.

Jiang Ci's blood-clotting disorder meant he often got sick and needed medication, so he had to be watched carefully.

Lu Shiying arranged for two bodyguards to stay with the little guy before and after class, reporting to President Lu every moment of the day.

When Jiang Ci got home, he stood beside the man and said, "Big Brother, I want to learn taekwondo."

Looking at the tiny boy, Lu Shiying worried he might get hurt and said, "Learn it in bed."

Jiang Ci: "??"

A week later, a custom-made ten-meter bed had been installed on the third floor of the villa. Jiang Ci stared at it, eyes wide.

Lu Shiying wielded power over the whole world. Countless influential families wanted to marry into his family, but no one knew the depths of his careful, calculating mind. He publicly declared he would never marry.

Until the day Jiang Ci turned eighteen, when Lu Shiying announced to the world: this is my wife.

On their wedding night, Jiang Ci sat obediently at his side and asked, "Big Brother, are we going to bed now?"

Lu Shiying held his chin and looked straight into his eyes. "You called me the wrong thing."

Jiang Ci shivered and timidly called, "Daddy..."

Theme: Live toward the light, toward freedom, and with hope.