Reborn as a Guardian Spirit Behind the Male God

[Collecting favorites for the upcoming story, "Picked Up and Raised After Running Away from Home"~]

Lu Wei has had a crush on his dream guy for years. His obsession was so strong that even after he died, he became the man's ghostly companion.

Lu Wei's take on it: This is so much fun!

When his dream guy eats, Lu Wei blows on his hot soup for him.

When his dream guy sleeps, Lu Wei sits by the bed and counts his eyelashes.

When his dream guy showers, Lu Wei... gets a little embarrassed and doesn't dare open his eyes.

There's only one major regret: in his ghostly state, he can't touch his dream guy's body♂

Then one day, he follows his dream guy into a lab and possesses a skeleton used for teaching.

Overcome with emotion, Lu Wei throws his arms around the man he's been dreaming of.

The man: A ghost!

#WhatDoYouDoWhenYouBecomeAGhostlyCompanionAndDiscoverYourDreamGuyIsAfraidOfGhosts#

#ThisIsBad!WhyIsTheCoolAndDistantCampusHeartthrobSuddenlyHuggingASkeletonAndCallingItBaby!#

#MyDreamGuyIsConstantlyTornBetweenBeingKilledByCutenessAndBeingScaredToDeath#

A cool and aloof heartthrob who's secretly shameless and ridiculous, gong × a timid on the outside but bold on the inside, sweet and well-behaved fangirl, shou

A slow-paced, sweet romance with no supernatural horror, mutual unrequited crushes, and no angst throughout.

Content warnings:

1. They're each other's first love.

2. There's nothing scary in this story. The little ghostly companion is adorable.

3. No cultivation or supernatural mysticism. When in doubt, invoke quantum mechanics.

4. I'll try to update daily. If anything comes up, I'll explain in the author's notes or take a leave of absence.

Upcoming story 1: "Rebellious Phase"

Blurb:

The day Ye Qi was kicked out of his home for being "rebellious," he was livestreaming on a short-video platform.

"Fine, I'll leave! I'm the top guy in City C. I can be number one anywhere!"

Fans: Bro, you're awesome!

That very night, this number-one guy got lost in the hospital and cried until his eyes were red.

His cold-hearted, ruthless god-relative, Lu Xiuhe, took him in.

The next day, the guy who'd scribbled all over the walls was up all night repainting them, crying as he worked.

The third day, the guy who'd littered everywhere was kicked into cleaning the whole neighborhood.

The fourth day, the guy who pretended to be sick and stayed in bed was forced to spend the whole day drinking glucose.

Day n

Fans: Bro, we haven't seen you in months. Why are you such a loser now? Livestream a fight!

Under Lu Xiuhe's threatening stare, Ye Qi angrily slams his workbook onto the desk.

"What fight? I'm livestreaming my studies!"

*

Lu Xiuhe thought he'd picked up a thoroughly unlikeable mess, someone his mother had forced him to keep at home.

But after washing off the mud, he found a hard little pebble underneath.

Chip away at it, and a little glimmer of beauty shines through the cracks.

Polish it, and you discover the world's most precious, dazzling gem hidden inside.

*

An older, outwardly gentle but secretly calculating doctor gong × a rebellious high school student, a fussy little internet celebrity shou

1. The main characters aren't related by blood and aren't registered in the same household.

2. They're both adults when they get together.

Upcoming story 2: "The Tool Character Is Always Rushing to His Next Gig"

Overworked office drone Xian Yu binds himself to a transmigrate into a book System and becomes a rich second-generation pretty boy in the entertainment industry, coasting through life while the heroine makes him look like dirt.

System: Just act out the small parts of tool characters in eight original novels and keep the worlds stable. Then you can stay here forever.

Xian Yu's life goal is to coast through life, so he says: Got it. It's just quick transmigration, right? I'm in!

System: Sorry, it's not quick transmigration.

Xian Yu: ??

System: All eight original novels take place in the same world, and you play the same tool character in all of them.

Xian Yu: !!!

Rushing from one gig to the next, both on and off the set, Xian Yu uses every trick in the book to slack off, hoping to get forced into retirement.

But...

Fans: If you stay, I'll keep loving you!

Main characters: You'll always be my best brother/friend/big brother!

Xian Yu: But I want to retire already!!

*

A typical day for tool character A, Xian Yu:

Morning: Ask his heroine little sister for pocket money and run into tool character B, his brother-in-law.

Noon: Send subtle flirtatious looks to the loyal-dog gong lead and run into tool character B, his uncle.

Afternoon: Be the gay best friend to the universally adored shou lead and run into tool character B, his boss.

Xian Yu: You again? Why is it always you?

Gong Juren: Sorry, I have twenty scripts.

Xian Yu: This is too much!

So he takes the hand of a poor little thing and turns his life around: Damn it, I'm done!

The main characters are all baffled by how Xian Yu keeps growing more distant from them.

Then, at Xian Yu's award ceremony, they see him, now at the very top, pinning his powerful former fiance/uncle/boss against the wall at the venue, hands on his hips.

The main characters, who'd always been kept under the thumb of the powerful man: Something seems... off.

Gong Juren: I'm crying. I'm faking it.

*

He comes bearing darkness, snapping the chains called fate.

From then on, he becomes the only light.

1. A laid-back, universally adored shou × a scheming, tea-green tool-character gong

2. This story is also known as:

"How I Saved a Poor Little Tool Character, Only for Him to Repay Me by Pushing Me Down"

"I Worked So Hard to Turn My Life Around, When All I Wanted Was to Be a True Layabout"

"Isn't It a Bit Much for a Prolific Author to Write Twenty Books and Keep Tormenting the Same Tool Character?"

Message: Science and technology are the primary productive forces.