Liaozhai Is So Seductive

The righteous are often common folk, while the faithless are often scholars.

Your position shapes your perspective. Look at things from another angle, and you get a different story.

This novel digs into the hidden side of each protagonist. These are short, standalone stories derived from Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, each with its own protagonist. Some protagonists are male and some are female, but they are all heterosexual.

Some stories have couples, and some don't. The point is to live your own life; romance is just a little extra. Whether a story has a couple is up to fate.

If you don't want a male protagonist's perspective, you can skip the first two stories.

1. The City God Exam (male protagonist's perspective): Zhang Sheng is reborn and refuses to serve as a temporary City God. He takes the imperial examinations and rises to the highest ranks of the court.

2. The Man in the Ear (male protagonist's perspective): Tan Jinyan, let that despicable little man get eaten by a goose. I'll just get on with my ordinary life.

3. The Corpse's Transformation (female protagonist's perspective): Lin Wan starts out by sending everyone who wants her dead to scout the way first. Whoever wants to be this female corpse can have the job.

4. Spouting Water (female protagonist's perspective): How a maid changes after being reborn.

5. The Pupil in the Eye (female protagonist's perspective): Why should you get to turn over a new leaf?

6. The Painted Wall (female protagonist's perspective): She breaks free from control and goes off to cultivate immortality.

7. The Mountain Demon: A mountain demon is mistaken for a ghost after his attempt to woo someone fails.

8. The Ghost Who Bites: A revenge story about a female ghost who was sold and died a miserable death.

9. Catching a Fox + The Monster in the Beans: Fox Xiao Qi's hopes of becoming an immortal are slim.

Theme: Stories have protagonists, but life has no main character.