Venerable, Please Restrain Yourself

Shan Cui'er had never believed in Buddha, but she fell for a monk who did.

The monk still had a head of dark hair. He was handsome, tall and slender, gentle and reserved, perfectly matching the image of her future partner!

The monk liked Buddhist scriptures, so she went looking for them, using them as an excuse to flirt with him, both openly and discreetly.

But the man was as dense as a block of iron and just wouldn't get the hint!

After repeatedly trying to win him over and getting nowhere, she looked at the monk, still facing her with gentle compassion, and finally chose to give up and follow her family's arrangements for her marriage.

The last time she went to see him, she looked at his smooth, shining scalp and told him she was getting married.

He still smiled gently and wished her a long life with the one she loved.

She smiled too and wished him a bright future.

That night, covered in wounds, he finally left Qingshan Temple, the place where he had been raised.

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Yu Chu died young from staying up too late. When she opened her eyes, she found herself lying in a coffin in a tattered red wedding dress, holding a dead fox.

She was also a nobody who would cough up blood from time to time and could come back to life even after being killed.

After barely managing to settle herself and the dead fox with the money she made from selling the coffin,

she stood in an unfamiliar world, felt the few copper coins left in her pocket, and looked at this ancient land with its backward medical care and the village's constant deaths. Swallowing her grief, she took up the trade her ancestors had left her: funeral services.

From then on, she spent her days doing odd jobs and her nights transporting and cremating corpses. Her life was finally starting to get comfortable, and she even managed to bring the little fox back to life along the way.

The good days were finally about to begin!

Then, on another dark and windy night, perfect for transporting a corpse, she dozed off for a moment. A cold gust blew by, her neck went cold, and she was killed!

Calmly pretending to be dead, she narrowed her eyes and saw a blue-faced, fanged yaksha right in front of her, holding a human skin that belonged to one of her clients.

As she stared in shock, a Taoist priest came chasing after it.

Yu Chu thought calmly: Oh, so that's why people keep dying around here. This is a Strange Tales world.

Once she figured it out, the shock was too much, and she fainted on the spot.

As she tried to live ever more cautiously, she would occasionally find herself in strange situations: coming across a lost little fox from the Hu family, a pilgrim who had died unexpectedly...

And that little fox was starting to seem stranger and stranger...

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