Wild Vines

Serial: Tunan

A history of the rise and fall of a merman maritime empire where the sun never sets. It also counts as a sequel to Who Can Be Immortal.

Story blurb

Summer days, winter nights. After a hundred years, we return to our home.

Winter nights, summer days. After a hundred years, we return to our dwelling.

This is one of the prequels in the Who Can Be Immortal series. The protagonists are the parents of Qing Jing, the calamity king. More precisely, it's about her old man, a legendary unlucky bastard who embodies the ultimate misfortune: not merely a father sabotaging his son or a child sabotaging their father, but a father sabotaging his son while his child sabotages him at the same time.

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Feasibility Report on Socialized Elder Care in the Yushi Kingdom

What's the biggest problem when long-lived and short-lived species are forced together to form a country?

Different species have different values.

The Yushi Kingdom's government announces: Short-lived citizens willing to work at the Yinglong Kindergarten and help care for the young will receive generous wages and three meals a day. The food will match the Yinglong children's meals: whatever the children eat, the seniors eat.

Requirements: Applicants must be over fifty-five. People with disabilities, dementia, or chronic illnesses are welcome, as long as the illness isn't contagious. Those too old to walk are fine too. The older, the better. Also, the work contract is a life-and-death pact.

The whole country is in an uproar, then large numbers of seniors are sent to the kindergarten.

PS: This is also an Immortal spin-off, but it's set in the future rather than the past: a spin-off about the Yushi Empire founded after the Yinglong came ashore.

Chang Yi

Have you ever seen a god?

Fei: I have. The flower I saw after crossing the boundless darkness was a god, but she's someone I can never love, and she thinks my feelings for her are just childish ignorance.

A prequel to Immortal.

A teacher-student romance, probably, with a female teacher and a male student. A spin-off of Immortal.

Zhi Ming

Female lead's perspective:

Greed is the source of my ambition., Jiang Yan

To climb the ranks, Jiang Yan fights tooth and nail, eventually rising to a position second only to The Outcast, with even that one reduced to a puppet. But that person is so handsome. Since I hold the highest authority, what's wrong with sleeping with the most beautiful person?

Male lead's perspective: Nothing is more miserable than having no talent for governing, yet being forced to sit on the throne of the Jade Lord and bear the burden of the nation's fate. Worse, I can tell that all the shamans are deceiving me and trying to control me. If they were only trying to deceive and control me to gain power, fine. I don't care for power anyway. But they wield authority and still refuse to do any work.

What the hell? Where did this capable, hardworking workaholic come from? Sure, you're also deceiving me and trying to control me, but since you're capable and willing to work, I'll forgive you.

Damn it, I gave you power so you could do your job better, not so you could lust after my body.

A spin-off of Immortal

Jian Sheng, an Immortal bonus story

Being a spy is hard. Being a spy in troubled times is even harder.

What does Wen Sheng regret most in her life?

Answer: Being young and foolish enough to become a spy.

What does Wen Sheng regret least in her life?

Answer: Being young and foolish enough to become a spy.

Luo Shen

Divorce is fun for a moment, but getting back together is hell. The male lead is Feng Yi, the River Earl. The female lead is the Luo Shen, the one who is Fuxi's daughter.

Wu Guang

What's a teacher's greatest failure?

Is it having students who don't succeed?

No, it's having every student succeed, only for every one of them to turn against humanity.

A prequel to Immortal. The protagonist is Wu Guang, the teacher of Qing Jing and Wang Shu.

Author's ongoing stories:

Tunan: A history of the rise and fall of a merman maritime empire where the sun never sets. It also counts as a sequel to Who Can Be Immortal.

Dawn Era II: Short bonus stories for Immortal and Tunan.

Records of the Yellow Springs: Also an Immortal bonus story, but set in the underworld.

Author's completed works:

A Self-Rescue Guide After Rebirth in the Apocalypse: An unconventional post-apocalyptic rebirth story.

Dawn Era: A collection of short and medium-length Immortal side stories, plus a watch-along story.

After the Fall of Heaven: Disasters and spiritual qi revival crawl through the internet. Also known as Players' Adventures in a Mobius Loop.

Hua Xin: The young Yan Emperor's adventures, the fourth prequel to Immortal.

Who Can Be Immortal: A record of a woman becoming king, an ensemble cast in a fictional world, with no rivalry between women. The heroine and the supporting women only compete for the throne.

Ge Sheng: The struggle to reconcile power and love, the third prequel to Immortal.

Hua Yuan: A fish falls in love with a hairless monkey, the second prequel to Immortal.

Wang Shu: Teaching values starts in childhood, the first prequel to Immortal.

The Willful Divine Physician: A mental illness patient's journey of self-healing.

A Family of Three Species: A family of three people belonging to three species.

A Bestiary of Nonhuman Creatures: A world where monsters run rampant, and the manor owner wants to quit.

The Statesman: A treacherous minister versus a celebrated minister.

Feng Qi Wu: When a schemer loses their memory.

Yao Guang: A demon falls in love with a god, and loves them madly.

Theme: No matter how much hardship life brings, the sun will rise one day