Strange Tales from Lingnan

Guangxi folklore and supernatural mysteries, suspenseful tomb exploration, and a touch of ensemble cast. The female lead is upbeat and forthright; the male lead is a dark, ghostly man. In the late Qing dynasty, the Lu clan, a feng shui family, perished in a scheme to find and continue a dragon vein. Today, a phantom sun appears, one hundred and sixty years later. Yan Bingyu turns off the astrology commentary on her phone that is stirring up panic, then calmly works overtime until late at night. On her way home, she gets a congratulatory call from a friend wishing her a happy birthday: "Happy twenty-fourth birthday! I'm not too late with my wishes, am I?" "Just in time. I was born at 23:58." Someone is burning paper offerings at a crossroads. The smoke chokes Yan Bingyu, and she steps on some ashes while trying to get away. Through the drifting smoke, a man with a Qing queue appears at the end of the road. He makes calculations with his fingers; the gloom on his jade-like face clears, and he gives her a twisted smile. "A woman born under the Seven Killings configuration." Later, night after night, as she watches corpses climb out of graves and hears all kinds of ghosts whispering in her ear, Yan Bingyu can't help but regret it: Never, ever tell anyone your birth date and time! Next story: The Hakka Temple Is Vast A high-martial-arts heroine with an unexpected cute side x a sinister man whose bones and blood are weapons and who has layers of secret identities. During the Upheaval of the Five Barbarians, Han Chinese families in the north were forced to move south to escape the wars. History calls this the Migration of the Aristocracy Southward. Among those noble families was a secretive clan that survived the divisions and wars of China by sheer luck. They called themselves guests and named their people the Hakka. People believed the Hakka Temple was vast and thus revered it as a sacred temple. Only the Hakka knew that the "temple" was a realm of yin and yang: in peaceful times, people walked in the yang; when disaster struck, they traveled through the yin. It could cross the ages and was the "Sanctuary of the Gods" from which the Hakka bloodline originated. But more than a hundred and fifty years ago, an immortal took over the sanctuary, and despite all their efforts, the Hakka couldn't reclaim it. In the modern era, the burden falls on Min Huizhou. When she transmigrates into the past, she carries the divine weapon Fangshu Saber, capable of breaking realms, and brings modern firearms, determined to destroy that immortal at any cost! But at their first meeting, his handsome face leaves her dazed. He claims he is just a general whose luck has run out, laments his difficult and tragic life, and begs her to be magnanimous and spare him. According to history, that general was sentenced to death by a thousand cuts. If he really were immortal, he would have long since been reduced to a pile of minced flesh! Min Huizhou fumes. "What a pack of lies. So vicious and deceitful!" At the slightest disagreement, they draw their weapons. Later, Min Huizhou falls into the Yin Realm ruled by the Master of the Corpse-Spirits and is forced to travel with the immortal. She sees with her own eyes that this cunning immortal can wield the highest level of the three Fangshu arts, and takes another look at him. "You're not of my clan, yet you can use Fangshu to break corpse-spirits. Who are you, really?" He smiles with elegant ease, his languid voice at odds with his slack posture. "Ah Hui, why not ask your ancestors where the Minzhou surname comes from?" *The three Fangshu arts: the lower art breaks realms, the middle art breaks forms, and the upper art breaks corpse-spirits. *The Hakka clan's surname is Minzhou, and there is a story behind it. *The heroine looks like a cute girl, but at the slightest provocation she's ready to fight. She's a fighter. *The hero is sharp-tongued on the surface and seems handsome and refined, but every bone and drop of blood in his body can become a weapon. He excels at underhanded tactics. *A time-traveling adventure. Theme: There are countless paths to the Great Way, and sometimes you must take the road less traveled.