After Coming Down the Mountain, I Made a Fortune Catching Ghosts

My next novel will be Doomsday Arrives, and I Have a Food Cart. See my profile. Blurb: Chu Mengmeng came down from the mountains, determined to use her skills to catch demons, ward off evil, and earn money to support her family. But when she arrived in the city, she discovered that the tricks people played there were nothing like the ones in storybooks. The beautiful, bewitching fox spirits from the stories had long since become overworked wage slaves, worn out and haggard. The vicious, bloodthirsty ghosts from the stories worked part-time in cemetery crews, swarming together for a few scraps of spirit money. The Underworld Ghost Market, where every inch of land was precious and the rules were strict, had become rife with scam rings and demon traffickers. The stories said that spiritual energy was scarce in the human world, that great demons and powerful beings had all perished, and that only human demon hunters could throw their weight around. But after Chu Mengmeng came down the mountain... A fox spirit clung to the gate of Chu Mengmeng's home in the middle of the night, sobbing, "Please, my lady, have mercy and restore my beauty!" The ghosts lined up and knelt before Chu Mengmeng, eyes red as they begged for a taste of incense: "My life is yours!" The Ghost Market entrance still said, "No living people allowed," but someone had secretly put up a QR code for payments from the human world. Even the divine beasts from ancient myths, long thought extinct, squirmed out one after another, lining up just to beg Chu Mengmeng for a bite to eat. Only the people who still harbored ill intentions remained the same as they had always been, diligently playing the villains. Chu Mengmeng: It's fine. Things might be a little different from the stories, but I can catch them all! [Before You Read] 1. The heroine is cute and beautiful, but not someone to mess with. Her combat strength is maxed out. 2. A fun, lighthearted supernatural story that isn't scary. A true heroine-centered novel. 3. The worldbuilding serves the plot. History buffs, please go easy on me. 4. Some of the information about demons and monsters is made up, while some is based on Records of the Taiping Era, Imperial Readings of the Taiping Era, Classic of Mountains and Seas, Chinese Ancient Myths and Legends, Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang, Records of the Mysterious and the Strange, What the Master Would Not Discuss, and Treatise on Curiosities, with some original additions. My next novel will be Doomsday Arrives, and I Have a Food Cart. Su Ying woke up and found herself in the apocalypse with a System. The original owner had first been abandoned by her teammates, then infected by a mutant species, and now looked like she was on her last legs. Feeling the changes in her body and watching the mutated creatures in the distance eye her hungrily... Su Ying rubbed her stomach. "I'm hungry." Mutated creature: ? - Six months after the apocalypse began, supplies were still scarce. But humans had learned to make nutrient drinks from mutated creatures. The drinks were thick, hard to swallow, and mildly toxic. Their only advantages were that they were relatively cheap and filling. Most ordinary people had no choice but to hold their noses and swallow this slow-acting poison. Then one day, a pretty young woman arrived at the safe zone outside the city. She pushed a food cart piled with... foods made from rather bizarre-looking ingredients. Passersby looked at the nutrient drink in their hands, then at Su Ying's food cart, torn between the two. Someone pointed at the cart and jeered, "Even a dog wouldn't eat that!" Not long afterward, the ingredients on Su Ying's cart were still bizarre, but the dishes she served had become increasingly spicy, savory, and full of flavor. Not only that, there were now unmutated fruits and vegetables, rare medicines, and even the occasional top-grade weapon! Even the dogs passing by were drooling with envy! Those who had tasted the food couldn't stop raving: "Anyone who won't eat this is the real dog!" "Waaah, it's so delicious! I haven't tasted anything like this since the apocalypse began!" "Wait, what?" "The lingering injury from my infection got better after I ate this!" "My ability has hit a bottleneck, but now I'm about to break through!?" A long line formed in front of Su Ying's food cart, and wealth, resources, and fame came pouring in. -- On the first day of the apocalypse, besides discovering that she was about to die, Su Ying also found out that she was different from everyone else. Other people had abilities related to metal, wood, water, fire, or earth. Her ability was... purification. But the System told her that, for now, she could only purify things related to food. Su Ying, once the best cook in the military before transmigrating: "Well, what do you know? This is exactly my specialty." #Everyone knows that only the most skilled can become a cook --Coming Soon: Transmigrating into the Male Lead's White Moonlight and Getting a Happy Ending with the Second Male Lead-- After a car accident, Xiao Xiao transmigrated into an old-school tragic cultivation novel as the universally adored white moonlight. The white moonlight was utterly devoted to the male lead and willingly went undercover beside the villainous second male lead, giving her all to the cause. The male lead used the confidential information she provided, then yelled at her, "Why did you betray me?" Chu Xiaoxiao: "?" The white moonlight died in utter despair after the male lead achieved fame and success, still loving him with all her heart. When the male lead learned the truth, tears streamed down his face. He fought the second male lead to the death, then spent thirty chapters carrying the white moonlight's ashes and getting entangled with the female lead before finally reaching his happy ending. Chu Xiaoxiao: "Ugh." Wouldn't it be better to happily cultivate and live forever? Meanwhile, the villainous second male lead, moved by the white moonlight's devotion, lost all his powers after her death and ultimately suffered a crushing defeat, losing everything. Chu Xiaoxiao: There really was no need for that. So Chu Xiaoxiao looked at the second male lead sitting across from her and poked him. She smiled warmly. "Hey, buddy, want to make a deal?" Then she spilled the male lead's entire plan in one breath. The second male lead spun a small dagger in his hand and looked at her. "So what do you want?" Chu Xiaoxiao waved her hand with righteous conviction. "I just want to be a law-abiding citizen and do what's right!" Second male lead: ? What's a citizen? Gu Shen had always been decisive, and showed his enemies no mercy. From the very first day Chu Xiaoxiao came to work for him, he knew she was there to bring him down. Even though she acted as if she and his sworn enemy hated each other. So he deliberately let slip some irrelevant information, giving Chu Xiaoxiao something to report back, so that his sworn enemy would fall into his trap. But then... His sworn enemy kept sending people to their deaths in ways he could never have anticipated, all while following the plan... They were about to be completely wiped out! Chu Xiaoxiao, excited: The scumbag is almost wiped out! Gu Shen, stunned: So she really does love me! Chu Xiaoxiao: ? Theme: Face difficulties head-on.