Entering Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio as a Monster

A strange tale has been circulating among the demons of Jiangnan lately: the locust tree demon at Lanruo Temple got struck by lightning and lost her mind. Now she no longer drinks blood or eats people. Instead, she leads a group of female ghosts in farming, weaving, and running shops!

After more than twenty years as a model citizen, Yan Qing never expected to transmigrate into Liaozhai and become Granny Tree Demon, who breaks up Ning Caichen and Nie Xiaoqian before being cut down by Yan Chixia.

Yan Qing: ...With so many hardworking underlings who aren't afraid of toil, wouldn't farming and building things be much better? Why throw my life away as a cannon-fodder villain?

With a grand wave of her hand, she leads the fox demons and female ghosts into a life of gardening, weaving, and farming.

Several years later, Lan's Restaurant and Lan's Trading Company are famous throughout the land. Jin Hua's Lanruo Town is the favorite destination of every merchant and traveler. Anything you can imagine can be found there: antiques and treasures, fine wine and delicious food, rare treasures such as century-old ginseng and millennium-old lingzhi. Everything from food and clothing to housing and transportation is available.

One day, Yan Chixia is ordered by his master to go to Lanruo Temple and exterminate the demons, but what he finds is a bustling, prosperous city.

Carriages and horses travel along the roads, merchants come and go without end. In the distance, lanes crisscross the fields, and the sounds of chickens and dogs carry through the air. Men farm while women weave: it is a veritable paradise.

Yan Chixia looks around in bewilderment, then follows directions to a quaint, elegant shop. Behind the counter, he sees a woman in plain clothes, breathtakingly beautiful, leaning back and reading. Her manner is refined and ethereal, entirely free of demonic aura.

The woman isn't startled by his arrival. She calmly sets down her book and smiles. "What would you like to buy, Daoist? Cinnabar or talisman paper?"

Yan Chixia: ...

What happened to the evil old monster who ate people, drank blood, and committed every kind of wickedness? Master, are you messing with me?

Summary:

1. Focused on the heroine, no romance.

2. Basically, it's a story about a great demon leading a group of demons and ghosts in farming, weaving, and running shops, traveling the world, and sampling all kinds of delicious food.

Upcoming story one: Quick Transmigration: A Life of My Own Choosing

Synopsis: Yan Qiu was born frail and struggled to live to the age of twenty. When she was once again on the brink of death, she was bound to a System and began traveling through different worlds...

1. Empress Chen Ajiao of Emperor Wu of Han (A Laid-Back Empress's Daily Gossip)

2. Transmigrating as the First Emperor's Mother (A Transmigrated Zhao Ji Raises Her Child)

3. Empress of the Three Kingdoms (Farming and Building Things After Transmigrating as a Han Princess)

4. The Foil in a Reborn Military Wife Story (Researching Medicine for the Country and Becoming a National Treasure)

5. The Cannon-Fodder Female Character in a School Bully Story (From Poor Student to Top Scholar, Shining on Her Own)

6. The Lovelorn Second Female Lead in a Sweet Romance (From Love-Struck Fool to Policewoman, Racking Up Merits)

Upcoming story two: Refusing to Be a Stepmother in a Period Novel

Synopsis: Xue Ning suddenly awakens memories of her past life and realizes she has transmigrated into a period novel about a stepmother, where she is the original heroine.

In the book, she defies her family's objections and insists on marrying a man she has met only once.

But her husband has someone else in his heart, and after they marry, he's busy with work and can't look after the family. She not only works tirelessly to raise three stepchildren, but also has to stand up to a biased mother-in-law, a pair of awful sisters-in-law, terrible relatives, and horrible neighbors...

Afraid the three children would feel neglected, she doesn't have any children of her own, and spends her whole life laboring like an old draft animal.

In the end, the three children become leaders in their respective fields, her husband becomes a powerful political figure, and he finally recognizes all she has done. The couple live happily ever after.

Xue Ning: ...

Let someone else deal with this complicated script. She was forced to be a workaholic in her past life, and that was exhausting enough. After finally getting another chance at life, all she wants is to eat, drink, and live as a carefree slacker.

Just after Qin Yan transfers back home, he gets caught up in a major case. After bringing a gang of criminals to justice, he is honorably wounded and rescued by a young woman.

She has bright, beautiful eyes and a lovely smile, and her speech and manners are nothing like those of a girl from some tiny rural village.

Qin Yan's occupational instincts kick in. He starts investigating her in secret, but no matter how thoroughly he looks, he can't find anything wrong. Instead, he ends up losing his own heart.

Theme: Stay positive and build a better life.