The Sickly Beauty Boss Just Wants to Be a Salted Fish

[An older work. Read the blurb and check the premise before diving in. Not recommended for readers who are firmly on one character’s side.]

Wu Baishuang used to be very diligent about treating his illness. He took his medicine on time every day, followed his doctor’s orders, and worked hard to cultivate his martial arts techniques to suppress the cold poison inside him.

Then Wu Baishuang awakened.

It turned out he was the villain in a fantasy novel, and the plot had already planned his death.

After stabbing himself, Wu Baishuang found himself perfectly unharmed. He smiled with satisfaction. “Not bad!”

He confirmed that he wouldn’t die before the plot began.

He gave all his medicinal decoctions to the potted plants, traded his medical books for storybooks, and replaced the millennia-old frigid pool where he used to bathe with a comfortable hot spring... Life had never been better.

*

Just as Wu Baishuang began enjoying the hot spring, the protagonist showed up.

Wu Baishuang’s first thought when he saw the protagonist’s menacing face: ?

I’m throwing him out.

However, Wu Baishuang soon discovered a shocking secret: he could influence the protagonist’s storyline.

Wu Baishuang, pondering: I need to figure out how to go hang out by his side and slack off.

*

Before he met Wu Baishuang, Chu Yan had always lived carelessly. Someone like him, who had survived endless bloodshed, could die any day.

But Wu Baishuang was different. He always found ways to turn hardship into an opportunity to enjoy life, bringing color to his own life along with Chu Yan’s.

Chu Yan, rubbing his chin: I need to figure out how to make this marriage, which exists in name only, stick.

Premise:

1. A cultivation-loving, laid-back beauty who takes pleasure in good food, drink, and doing whatever he wants × a bad-tempered lone wolf who’s soft-hearted with his husband and knows how to treat him right.

2. Another-world fantasy setting!!! This is a let-loose kind of story!! Please don’t send writing advice.

3. If you drop the story, there’s no need to tell the author in the comments. Thank you.

4. Not recommended for readers who are deeply attached to either the shou or gong.

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After Being Forced Back to Life, I Became Everyone’s Favorite by Ruo Baiyi

Jiang Shi was an exorcist. After slaying the Ghost King, he died of exhaustion.

Two thousand years after his death, Jiang Shi never expected future generations to resurrect him with a magical formation, turning him into a half-human, half-ghost.

Jiang Shi burst out of his coffin. “Damn it, which bastard dared to dig up your ancestor’s grave?”

The evil ghost in front of him thumped to the ground. Jiang Shi thought the bastard was about to beg for mercy and call him ancestor.

Instead, a stern-looking young man hurried over from behind. He killed the evil ghost with one slash, lifted Jiang Shi out of the coffin, then calmly spoke into a little metal object Jiang Shi didn’t recognize:

“Rescue team, there’s a child here who was offered as a sacrifice. The evil ghost scared him stiff. He’s terrified.”

Jiang Shi: ...?

*

Only later did Jiang Shi learn that, two thousand years on, exorcists had become National Security Special Ability Agents.

The job came with six types of insurance and a housing fund, generous benefits and subsidies, and flexible hours, all of which went a long way toward preventing the overwork-related deaths that plagued old-time exorcists.

After Shen Zhi took Jiang Shi in, Jiang Shi used his “luck” at escaping danger again and again to successfully join the National Security Special Ability Agents. Everyone praised him as a lucky charm that reduced the risks of their missions.

Jiang Shi: ???

What kind of lucky person spends every day in high-risk areas where evil ghosts attack all the time?

It was just a necessary way to conceal his identity.

Jiang Shi quietly hid the fact that he still occasionally turned into a ghost.

*

Then, during a mission, Jiang Shi accidentally let his secret identity slip in front of Shen Zhi.

Shen Zhi’s eyes darkened. “Oh. I thought there’d be a species barrier between us if we started dating. But now I can relax.”

Jiang Shi, who had been anxious and scared: ???

Jiang Shi: So you’re not human either, damn it. Wait, you like me too?

Premise:

1. A half-human, half-ghost hidden powerhouse who seems to slack off but works hard behind the scenes and never takes credit × a powerful, aloof man of few words who makes an exception for his husband.

Theme: A good life starts with me.