The Little Mushroom Spirit Is Three and a Half [Gourmet]

[Collection request for my upcoming novel, I Open a Counseling Office Outside the Morgue]

After their mushroom clan was wiped out, two little mushroom children transmigrated into a novel. All they remembered was their mother's words: the heroine, Qiao W Wan, was an amazing chef who made delicious food.

But at the time, Qiao W Wan was just a good-for-nothing, weighed down by heavy chains, muddling through life and quick to fly into a rage.

Qiao W Wan snarled, "Leave now, or I'll chop you up and stew you with eggs!"

The two naive mushrooms happily burrowed into her bed. "We love egg stew! Big Bowl, we love you!"

Qiao W Wan: Are they stupid?

After that...

The two mushrooms sniffled. "There won't be any yummy meat for the kids tomorrow. Everyone will say we're liars."

Qiao W Wan, who kept day and night upside down, softened. She got up early and busily cooked some meat.

The two mushrooms exclaimed excitedly, "Big Bowl, the day after tomorrow we'll give Teacher the tastiest noodles for her birthday, or she won't like us anymore."

Qiao W Wan, who gamed all night, sighed heavily, stayed up until dawn, and diligently rolled noodles in the kitchen.

"Big Bowl..."

Qiao W Wan: "Stop calling me that!"

Then she realized that she was the one who was stupid!

*

After the two mushrooms arrived, the once-deserted Cloth-Clad Restaurant grew livelier and livelier.

Big sister Ya Ya brought home an injured tiger. "Big Bowl, I trimmed all the matted fur around the tiger cub's wound. It looks good with an apron on!"

Little brother Luo Luo brought home a homeless fox. "Big Bowl, a bad guy hit the little fox on the head. It looks so handsome in a chef's hat!"

Qiao W Wan absolutely couldn't put up with this. She was about to open the door and kick the monsters out.

An old man with a long beard brought her a powerful tonic pill. "One pill per lifetime, and you'll always be full of energy and rosy-cheeked. Well... I have one more favor to ask. Your chicken soup is so delicious. I only ask for one bowl a day. No, three bowls a day! I'll sign up for a whole year!"

A rosy-cheeked Miss Tomato brought her natural vitamins. "One pill per lifetime, and you'll stay young forever and be as beautiful as a fairy. I have a little suggestion. I'd like to eat your orange-glazed shrimp and sweet-and-sour pork every day. I don't mind getting fat. As long as you keep making it, I'll eat it till the end of time!"

Qiao W Wan secretly accepted their gifts. "As long as you keep coming by, we can work something out!"

Until one day, the Demon King, said to roam freely across all three realms, suddenly paid her a visit. "I hear you've been kind to my people. I have no way to repay you, so I have come to offer myself to you!"

1. The heroine really is as miserable as a dog at first, but there's a reason. It'll be resolved later.

2. Contains fantasy elements.

3. Two little mushrooms: one naturally cool, the other naturally spacey.

[An oversensitive, insecure gang leader & a cunning, volatile big shot & two little mushrooms & monster cubs, sisters, old men, and more]

The blurb has been saved in a dated Weibo screenshot! [Updated version, 2020.7.10] [The blurb may be revised later]

Upcoming novel: I Open a Counseling Office Outside the Morgue. Please add it to your collection!

There is a spacious office outside the morgue. When a person dies and their soul leaves their body, they leave their final words behind there.

As the least talented and lowliest-born member of a family of exorcists, Wu Yun unsurprisingly scored the lowest mark in the Wu family's five hundred years of examinations. She was sent to work outside a morgue, a place nobody wanted. Her job was to listen to the last words of everyone who had just died, record and organize them, and provide one final counseling session for the departed.

A foul-tempered, sharp-tongued old woman who died after getting hit by a car tried to scam compensation. Wu Yun couldn't take it anymore and made her cry.

A policewoman who remained stubbornly devoted to her work until death, never considering her family, was ruthlessly taken to task by Wu Yun, and left in tears.

A boy who had taken his own life because of depression told her his final wish. Wu Yun flatly refused, leaving him speechless.

Later, a legend spread through the three realms: whatever you do, don't die outside the Wu family's door, or you might be scared out of your wits even as a ghost.

Yet one man who wasn't afraid of death came by three times with his Samoyed.

Three times!

And he brought a dog!

Wu Yun handed him a bag of jerky sympathetically. "I don't know how to handle nonhuman psychological issues. We're from different worlds."

Over the past thousand years, Earth had been occupied by humans. As human ambition and technology advanced, even demons with lives spanning millions of years had to face the desperate predicament of dwindling resources and having nowhere to live.

They didn't even have a decent hospital, let alone counseling. It was a sobering thought.

The man's deep eyes lifted slightly, flecks of light like stars melting into his pupils. "Then come with me. We'll take down this world, and I'll give you eternal wealth and glory."

Wu Yun: "?" Your ideas are dangerous!

"Great wealth and glory!" he emphasized solemnly.

Huh?

He wants to do something big?

Trying to buy me off and lure me away?

Hmph, I'm not becoming a lackey for an evil, scheming Demon King!

"Woof!"

Reading Guide:

1. The male lead is nonhuman.

2. The male lead is cunning and extreme in his methods.

#A cunning, ruthless Demon King & an aloof, money-loving exorcist#

#A possessive romance about winning someone over by force#

I think God must be the greatest writer of all. He writes everyone's pain with such depth and weight, making each person's suffering different, and still remembers to hang a dim moon in the sky to remind us not to forget hope. (From a counselor who has heard too many ghost stories)

[Blurb finalized on 2021.2.18 and saved in a Weibo screenshot. An earlier screenshot of the initial concept exists. It may be revised before the novel begins.]

Weibo: La Zhe Hua De Cheng Zi Ya

Theme: Life is best with good food