Bai Ling was a poisonous mushroom. The day he took human form and descended the mountain, he had two goals in mind:
One: Find the man who destroyed his mycelial forest all those years ago.
Two: Poison him to death.
He put on a maid outfit and rang his enemy's doorbell.
The man who opened the door looked him up and down with dark eyes. "...Did my mother send you?"
Before Bai Ling could say a word, the man had already pulled him inside.
"We can talk about getting married."
Bai Ling: ? That's fine, too. It'll be easier to poison him if I live here.
Day one.
Wearing an apron, Bai Ling served up a steaming bowl of mushroom soup and watched Pei Ji drink it all.
After finishing it, Pei Ji's complexion visibly improved.
Bai Ling: ...That can't be right.
Day two. A bigger dose. Pei Ji went to work full of energy.
Day three. A different mushroom. Pei Ji's cold poison eased a little more.
Bai Ling stared at his rosy complexion, his mycelium twisting into angry knots behind his back.
Why is this guy so hard to kill?
To increase production, Bai Ling secretly planted a huge patch of mushrooms in Pei Ji's backyard.
He served soup by day and watered the mushrooms by night, so busy he barely had time to rest.
Until he woke up in Pei Ji's bed, his back aching, his legs weak, and not a patch of unbruised skin on him. Pei Ji propped himself up on one arm, pinched his earlobe, and said with satisfaction,
"You're such a good wife."
Bai Ling thought expressionlessly: Tomorrow, I'll try hemlock.
Looking at the furious little mushroom in his arms, Pei Ji found it amusing.
The moment he'd finished his first bowl of soup and felt the cold poison loosen, he'd known something was off. Later, he looked it up and learned that his wife was a poisonous mushroom spirit.
But so what?
His wife wearing an apron every day and staring at him eagerly as he drank his soup was adorable.
His wife digging in the soil in the middle of the night, little butt sticking up as he planted mushroom after mushroom, was adorable.
His wife refusing to give up and nibbling a little piece of mushroom, then passing out... Wait, honey?!
Pei Ji scooped him up and casually sat him on his lap, giving his bottom a couple of smacks.
Bai Ling covered his butt, tears still glistening in the corners of his eyes.
A poisonous mushroom... can poison another poisonous mushroom? O.o
A month later, the backyard had become a mushroom forest.
Bai Ling crouched beside the flower bed, resting his chin in his hands as he stared at his thriving "mushroom army," lost in thought.
Wait, what had he come here to do again?
Pei Ji came over, bent down, and wrapped his arms around him from behind with a smile.
"Baby, can a poisonous mushroom spirit and a human have little mushrooms?"
Bai Ling whipped around. "?"
Weren't we supposed to be in a revenge story? How did this turn into a story about having babies?
[Reader's Guide]
A black-hearted, sweet-talking poisonous mushroom bottom x a cold-faced, sharp-tongued top who falls for him on his own; 1v1, both sexually inexperienced, one sweet little treat under 200,000 words
There will be a pretend pregnancy and childbirth, with one little mushroom baby, or maybe a whole bunch
Theme: Stay safe and never forget