I Picked Up a Gluttonous Snake [Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio]

My next novel goes live on June 1: My Porcelain Doll Is a Huge Hit in the Underworld. Visit my author page to check it out. Please add it to your reading list~**

*Synopsis:

Gu Huai transmigrates into Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, into the body of a man who shares his name and looks exactly like him.

Thanks to his irresistible charm to ghosts, he spends his days dealing with all kinds of monsters, demons, and spirits. The worst part is that he accidentally gets involved with an unreasonable, ravenous green snake.

Er Qing: "I want a hundred chickens!"

Gu Huai: "Sure, I'll get them for you."

Er Qing: "I want a whole cow!"

Gu Huai: "Sure, I'll get one for you."

The snake slithered up Gu Huai's arm, flicking its proud red tongue, and seemed to wear an inscrutable smile.

"I want to eat you, too."

Gu Huai: "Sure, I'll let you eat... What? What do you want to eat?"

Warnings and reading guide:

1. An otherworldly, slightly tsundere, enormously gluttonous, wife-protecting top X a bottom who attracts ghosts wherever he goes, is unaware of his own beauty, and has a very long reaction time. One-on-one, bottom's perspective, happy ending.

2. The story isn't angsty, but the author has a habit of putting the protagonists through the wringer.

3. This isn't a wish-fulfillment story, and there is no face-slapping. Readers accustomed to feel-good wish-fulfillment novels may find it frustrating, but the author believes the plot unfolds logically.

4. The protagonist is weak at first, overly compassionate, and imperfect. He'll learn from experience later, but will never become the sort of cold, selfish person who cares about no one.

5. The author has a rather fiery temper. Since I'm not expecting to make much money and never planned to make a living from writing, I'm not too concerned about how readers perceive me. I may occasionally snap back at comments that upset me, so if you like fawning over authors or can't accept one like me, don't click in. XOXO~

Here's the blurb for my upcoming novel:

To save her family's nearly bankrupt ceramics factory, Shen Nanfeng signs a contract with the Ghost King to sell porcelain dolls that house souls to the dead.

He earns a huge reward for every completed sale.

But to make a successful vessel, he must enter the world the spirit inhabited while alive and obtain a specific keepsake.

[Order No. 1]

Customer's identity: Dragon

Required keepsake: One of the dragon's ribs

Shen Nanfeng gently hooks a finger under the dragon's chin, looking so holy and immaculate that not a speck of dust could cling to him. "What would you do for me?"

The dragon presents one of his ribs with both hands, his enormous tail gently winding around Shen Nanfeng's calf. Kneeling, he kisses the top of Shen Nanfeng's shoe. "I'll give you everything I have."

Comments: ...Stop making me third-wheel you through my screen.

[Order No. 2: Three sentences to make a bandit willingly offer me his dagger]

[Order No. 3: A lonely, rebellious boy begs me to accept his diary]

Comments: Are you training dogs here?

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Inside Shen Nanfeng's ceramics factory:

Customer No. 1, the dragon, is hiding inside a purple cat-shaped porcelain doll. "Don't send me away. I'll give you the castle I built."

Customer No. 2, the bandit, is hiding inside a blue hamster-shaped porcelain doll. "Don't send me away. I'll give you all the gold I stole."

Customer No. 3, the boy, is hiding inside a pink puppy-shaped porcelain doll. "Don't send me away. I... I'll give you all my lollipops."

Yandere, loyal puppy, masochistic villain top X sickly, universally adored saintly bottom.

The top is one person. The bottom fakes his death in every small world. Happy ending.

Theme: Snake lovers