Spring for All Things

After Lu Xihe came back from arguing with her family, Shen Qiao was waiting for her in the snow. His lips were red, his teeth white, and his eyes glistening. His black down jacket made him look tall and graceful. Six words flashed through Lu Xihe's mind: Pretty. I'm in love. Want to kiss him. She tugged at the side of his down jacket, rose onto her toes, leaned in, and kissed him on the lips. Shen Qiao stood perfectly still, without even blinking. Three seconds later, the tips of his ears turned red. Three seconds after that, he touched his ear, ran the tip of his tongue over his lower lip, and whispered, "One more... one more kiss." *A truly rural love story set in school *Childhood friends, saving each other *Middle and high school, no sex [My upcoming novel: "Voice and Color"] Xiao Jue only had a high school education. The only thing he could do was play guitar, and he sang off-key. He was broke, but incredibly handsome, with fair skin, a pretty face, a slim waist, a curvy figure, and long legs. His smile could make a city swoon; his second smile could kill. He was beautiful, no doubt, but he couldn't open his mouth. His voice was rough, and when he spoke, he had a thick Northeastern accent. One day, while walking down the street, he caught the eye of the boss of the Douyu platform, who asked him to livestream. The kind of livestream where he showed his face, dressed as a woman, and played guitar while posing flirtatiously. Before long, he had become a cross-dressing livestream star, earning hundreds of thousands in gifts from a single stream. But it couldn't last forever. If you livestream without ever speaking, won't people think you're a cross-dresser? Or a transvestite? But Xiao Jue really couldn't speak. The moment he opened his mouth, the whole act would be ruined. So he found a voice actor. And that's how he found Su Yao, whose little-girl voice was the kind that made men hard at first listen and tempted them to violate the principles of building a harmonious socialist society at the second. Especially when she occasionally acted cute and coquettish. It was enough to make a man die on the spot. Then the two of them began working together. Xiao Jue posed flirtatiously and showed off in front of the camera every day, while Su Yao played along, acting sweet and singing. Of course, all the lines were planned in advance, so there was never any problem with the words not matching his lip movements. The two worked together very happily. The numbers in their bank accounts grew every day, and they could have laughed themselves awake in their dreams. Then one day, while Xiao Jue was livestreaming, Su Yao, voicing him in real time, couldn't hold back a sneeze. It was a little-girl sneeze, but it was earth-shattering... Xiao Jue was so startled that he blurted out his thick Northeastern accent: "Hey, little sis, take it easy! You scared the bejeezus out of your big brother!" The viewers: "..." [My upcoming novel: "The Grim Reaper Is Still Afraid of Ghosts Today"] Su Yu had worked in the underworld as a grim reaper for three hundred years. He saw ghosts every day, but still couldn't get over his fear of them! Other grim reapers could reap souls with ease. He threw every trick in the book and all thirty-six types of magical implements at the job! Usually, the souls he reaped were either bleeding from all seven orifices or had their guts hanging out, so user feedback was absolutely terrible! As a result, he hadn't been promoted or gotten a raise in three hundred years. He was so poor he could hear his pockets jingle, and eventually he couldn't even afford magical implements. You could say his life as an underworld civil servant was truly miserable. Until one day, while he was reaping a soul in the countryside, he met Zhai Jia, a wealthy woman with yin-yang eyes... Zhai Jia cornered him and confessed her love by force. Su Yu: "I'm not into older women!" Zhai Jia: "You've been alive for over three hundred years, and I'm only twenty-eight. And you're telling me you don't date older women?" Su Yu: "Then... I'm not into grandmothers, either." Zhai Jia flung a stack of hell banknotes to the ground. "Do you still want money to buy your soul-reaping implements?" Su Yu: "..." And so began a love between a human and a ghost that moved heaven and earth! Theme: