The Phoenix Ancestor's Beloved Husband

The ancestor of the Phoenix Clan suddenly vanished while in seclusion, and a mysterious egg appeared in the room. The Venerable of the Underworld happened to pass by, and the egg promptly disappeared. Everyone in the Phoenix Clan agreed that the Venerable had abducted their ancestor and stolen the egg. Whenever the matter came up, the Phoenix Clan was overcome with grief and indignation, and cursed, “Yan Qiu, have some shame.”

From then on, a sign was put up at the entrance to the Phoenix Clan’s barrier: The Venerable of the Underworld is not allowed inside.

Although Yan Qiu was the Venerable of the Underworld, he had nothing to do most of the time. One night, while strolling around to walk off his dinner, he spotted an egg hopping along by itself in the distance. Curiosity got the better of him, and he secretly followed it. He saw the egg peeling its own shell and taking a bath. Amused, he abducted it. Every night, he cuddled the egg to sleep, wondering what would hatch from it. But several days passed, and the egg showed no signs of life. He couldn’t detect any signs of life from it either. Yan Qiu decided he must have imagined what he’d seen that day, and resolved to fry the egg and eat it. Just then, the shell cracked, and a silver-haired beauty, wearing nothing at all, lay on their side in bed. Their eyes tilted up seductively, captivating him. “I hear you were going to eat me?”

Yan Qiu stared at the scene before him, froze for a moment, then promptly started spurting blood from his nose. He lunged toward the bed, grabbed the silver-haired beauty by the shoulders, and demanded, “Where’s my egg? What did you do with it? Give me back my egg!”

[The two characters call each other by different names each time. They aren’t getting the names wrong; it’s because Yan Wuyue isn’t thinking clearly.]

First version of this blurb, posted on 2021.04.06 and screenshot.

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Blurb: A “special” flyer appears on a forum in Shangjing.

Name: Shen Xiao

Occupation: House Cleansing Specialist

House-cleansing process: Livestream every night at seven.

How to book: Random assignment

Client rating: 99% positive (281 five-star reviews.)

Note: Clients surnamed Jiang get priority. Reward: 100 pearls. No charge if the cleansing fails.

The Shen family in the south and the Jiang family in the north are the two great house-cleansing clans. For a hundred years, they have followed the rule never to interfere with each other’s work or casually enter the other’s territory. Yet one sunny afternoon, Shen Xiao’s father had him bundled up and sent by chauffeur to Shangjing, the Jiang family’s turf.

Old Shen told Shen Xiao he had arranged a marriage for him in Shangjing. He only mentioned that the other person was 187 centimeters tall, 25 years old, good-looking, and surnamed Jiang. He didn’t say a word about their gender.

[Note] This novel isn’t scary and has nothing to do with horror.

Theme: Be brave enough to pursue the person you like.