[A headstrong, wooden magistrate x a sultry, self-deluding fox spirit]
Li Jingxuan is obsessed with detective games. To clear one, she made all sorts of absurd rulings. But who could have expected she’d end up inside the game, becoming a corrupt official hated by everyone?
Is it still too late for her to resign and run away? What? Her superiors have already sharpened their knives and are ready to make her take the fall? No way. To save her own skin, she has to find a way to set things right!
The moment the yamen gates open, eggs and rotten vegetables come flying at Li Jingxuan. Wearing a wooden expression, she begins revisiting the wrongful cases she once mishandled.
The village head’s hidden corpse case, the imperial examination cheating scandal: she solves them all!
But why did no one tell her this world had demons and ghosts?
And why does it seem like a fox has latched onto her?
Life has eight kinds of suffering: birth, aging, illness, death, being forced to meet those you hate, being parted from those you love, not getting what you want, and the burning intensity of the five skandhas.
But do demons have to suffer the eight kinds of suffering too?
Pu Lianyu is a fox spirit who has cultivated for a thousand years. He was born with the ability to bewitch people. Everyone fears him, dreads him, and hates him, yet no one knows that he would even avenge a benefactor for the sake of a meager kindness.
He pretends to be a down-and-out young master and gets taken back to the county yamen. At first, he intends to find a chance to get rid of this muddleheaded official who can’t tell good from evil.
But his repeated hesitation causes him to fall deeper and deeper. His heart fills with a sour, indescribable affection, and by the time he realizes it, it’s too late.
Old monk: If you want to renew your bond and overcome your tribulation, you must endure the eight kinds of suffering.
Fox spirit: What suffering? How could being with her be suffering?
Old monk: ...Increase the dosage.
PS:
1. The setting is inspired by an imaginary Ming dynasty, with a Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio feel. Daoist priests are not the same as cultivators. The story leans toward social realism.
2. This novel includes supernatural and strange tales. Please don’t overanalyze the details about the imperial examinations, official positions, and so on.
3. The heroine has no System and no golden finger.
4. The hero won’t have much presence early on. The heroine has her own career storyline, and the plot takes center stage.
5. The hero will have split-personality storylines later on.
6. All male characters are virgins.
Theme: The road is long. Keep walking, and keep thinking as you go.
Copywriting, the eighth hardship in life,
When will the update be updated today? [Hold your thighs][Hold your thighs]
So it has something to do with the emperor, right? [Hugs thigh]
Dad, do you know that "The Analects of Confucius" has been updated by you. Standing at thirty: It means updating thirty chapters in order to gain a foothold in the online literary circle. Forty without Confusion: Forty chapters are updated every day. Only then can you continue to receive gratitude and praise from readers and no longer be confused about the meaning of writing. You know your destiny at fifty: 50 chapters are updated every day, you are your destiny, and the entire website praises you. Sixty and easy to listen to: that is, when you can update 60 chapters a day, everything you say will be easy to listen to, including readers. When you are seventy, just follow your heart and do not go beyond the rules: if you can update 70 chapters a day, you can do whatever you want!
Goddess, what are you doing? The Guinness record is typing 807 letters per minute. Calculating that each Chinese character requires six letters, you can type approximately 134 words per minute. Since you are not the record holder, let's calculate it as 100 words per minute. According to the standards of the world organization, a person's healthy sleep time is eight hours, and you spend about two hours eating every day, another 20 minutes to go to the toilet, 40 minutes to wash, one hour to exercise, two hours to get inspiration, and another hour to fish in a daze, you should have nine hours to type and type 54,000 words, but you only posted these [almost crying]
Well written. The author is great, come on, wait for the update 😣