The Lazy Taoist Is Forced to Get to Work

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Poor Daoist Mu Bai spends his last penny, closes his eyes, kicks the bucket, and dies of poverty.

At the Hall of the Underworld King, he runs into the Underworld King, who is drunk and in an excellent mood. The king gives him a chance to be reborn in someone else’s body.

Mu Bai is reborn as a brilliant detective who seems unbelievably cool to the outside world and is an absolute legend to his apprentice.

The detective has smooth skin, a handsome face, elegant bearing, and a pair of yin-yang eyes that can see ghosts.

After being reborn, Mu Bai swears he’ll never die poor again, no matter what.

He can’t rely on feudal superstition. He has to take the righteous path to wealth through science.

But the Withered Wood Girl case, the Locked-Room Mystery case, the dismemberment of a rising star... None of those are a problem. Then there are cases of zombies eating people, a red-clothed female ghost claiming lives, a ghost baby coming back to life...

It’s all his old line of work again!

Keep walking by the river, and eventually you’ll get your shoes wet.

Yellow Springs Express, making a fortune.

Underworld Taobao, happiness forever.

He even slept with a little ghost one dark and stormy night.

The little ghost is fair-skinned, beautiful, and long-legged. He can warm the bed and help solve cases, and he’s equally at home in the parlor and the kitchen.

He’s good at charging into battle, acting cute, and everything in between.

Adorable beyond belief.

One day,

Mu Bai marched up to the little ghost, carrying all his worldly possessions. "This is the empire I built for you. The empire is yours, and you’re mine."

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Blurb:

Lin Yiyu was a true young master born with a solid-gold spoon in his mouth, with skin as fair and delicate as a porcelain doll!

He made a mess of everything in sight, even the air, and had no idea what it meant to worry!

Everyone called him the God of Wealth, a reincarnated Bodhisattva...

He managed to ruin his impenetrable, powerful family!

He even ruined his beloved husband!

All those "brothers" who used to hang around him started avoiding him like the plague!

After a deliberately caused car accident, he is reborn at eighteen.

He decides to live differently!

No one is taking his powerful family from him. Anyone who lays a hand on his husband is dead!

He puts on his blue-and-white striped school uniform, clutches his backpack straps, and eagerly heads off to find his husband, who is also eighteen...

But a group of tall, muscular athletes corners him at the school gate.

"Hey, God of Wealth, hand over the money, or else..."

Lin Yiyu spots his husband in the distance. He lifts his tender, fair, delicate little face and huffs, "Hmph! You’re picking on me! I’m telling my husband. My husband, Feng Xuanyuan, is really good at fighting."

"Feng Xuanyuan?"

"Brother Feng, this kid says you’re his husband."

Feng Xuanyuan turns his cold gaze on him. "Trying to mooch off me? You’re finished..."

Feng Xuanyuan has a sculpted face, long legs, a devilish, arrogant air, and an illustrious family background.

Lately, he’s been very troubled.

There’s a pretty little crybaby who keeps following him around, watching him study, watching him eat, watching him work out...

And he can’t even be harsh with him. If he is, the boy starts sobbing.

Everyone at Pingyang High School is afraid of him. They go around him as if he were the King of Hell.

But this little crybaby is as happy to see him as if he were gold, eagerly throwing himself at him and shamelessly calling him "husband"!

But when Feng Xuanyuan receives his admission letter from Tsinghua University, the little crybaby suddenly disappears.

Four years later...

Word spreads that the hard-working actor of the entertainment industry, the newly acclaimed top-tier star with extraordinary acting skills, Emperor Feng has gone crazy.

He keeps chasing after a handsome newcomer who has just debuted, scrambling to appear on all the newcomer’s shows, big or small.

Then, at the annual Best Actor Awards...

Onstage to present the award to the newcomer, Emperor Feng holds a microphone in one hand and firmly grips the newcomer’s wrist with the other. His eyes are bloodshot, his voice hoarse. "Try disappearing on me again. Go on."

This scene immediately explodes across the trending charts, and the whole internet starts speculating about their relationship.

That night, newcomer Lin Yiyu posts a picture on Weibo and tags Feng Xuanyuan: Let me introduce you to my husband.

The trending charts explode again, and the entire internet crashes.

Fans: ????

That super top-tier star and Best Actor who owns countless assets and is both handsome and fit?

But wasn’t he Lin Yiyu’s sworn enemy?

Haven’t they always been at each other’s throats?

[Cute, clingy, spoiled young master bottom x possessive, gloomy, unhinged CEO and Best Actor top]

[Reading guide]

1. One-on-one romance. Both the top and bottom have celebrated their eighteenth birthdays! They’re each other’s first love, body and soul! Please add it to your favorites, my dear angels!

2. Please don’t give writing advice. Every word was painstakingly typed by the author. Everyone has different tastes, so if you don’t like it, please don’t hurt me! This poor author is having a hard time!

3. Our bottom isn’t actually useless and only good at acting cute. He’s just pretty, and he’s very strong inside. Please check out the story. If this style really isn’t for you, please don’t be mean. Just click X. Thank you!

3. The cover art is from Bishui. Thanks to the lovely person on Bishui who shared it!

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Blurb:

The last little Daoist in a dilapidated mountain temple is fair, adorable, soft, and sweet, but his stomach is empty and flat!

Before dying, his master makes him swear he’ll never starve to death.

So he puts on a worn-out Daoist robe, wears an innocent, harmless smile, and heads down the mountain, planning to earn some pocket money by catching ghosts and vanquishing demons!

He doesn’t catch any ghosts, but he does manage to sell himself.

A smiling young man says he likes his face and wants him to join the entertainment industry as a background extra.

He doesn’t know what a background extra is, but free food and lodging sound great! And after he enters showbiz, it’s as if he’s got a cheat code.

He is dragged in at the last minute to join a talent show, and uses a yellow talisman he doodled to drive off a possessed doll!

He plays a Daoist who catches ghosts and actually catches one, earning lavish praise from the director of a supernatural film.

He joins a haunted-house challenge show. While the other entertainers scream and cry in terror, he sits on the floor, bored, playing cards with the ghosts.

He starts a supernatural livestream. Ghosts fill the sky, and gifts fill the screen.

He casually tells people’s fortunes, and gets every prediction right!

His number-one fan: "He could clearly make a living with his looks, so why does he have to rely on his talent? Please, use that handsome face of yours! It’d be such a waste not to!"

Shen Zuocheng adorably shakes his head. "I don’t need a face. I want pocket money to buy yummy food!"

Until one day, the cold Best Actor Fu Luoling comes to him to have his romantic fate read.

Shen Zuocheng calculates for ages but can’t figure out what kind of person this guy is.

Best Actor Fu grips his chin with long, strong fingers, his gaze icy. "I came to have my love life read. You’ve been taking forever. How about you just pay me back by becoming mine?"

Thinking of Best Actor Fu’s mountains of gold and silver, Shen Zuocheng’s eyes light up and he nods. "I can do that..."

Later,

On a dark and stormy night, the gates of hell open and a hundred ghosts roam the earth. Shen Zuocheng prepares for a fierce battle.

Best Actor Fu hides behind Shen Zuocheng. "This is so scary. I’m terrified..."

The hundred ghosts drop to their knees before Best Actor Fu, trembling. "Spare us, Ghost King!"

Shen Zuocheng: You’re the Ghost King?

Best Actor Fu: Maybe... I am!

Shen Zuocheng thinks back to last night. "I’m a Daoist who catches ghosts, and I was... I was... with you, a Ghost King?"

Notes:

1. A lighthearted, silly comedy. Not scary. Focuses on the bottom. Happy ending.

2. Our peerless temple master is cuteness itself. Please take him home, everyone! Add it to your favorites, please!

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