I Serve Snacks to the Ghost King

Jiang Liuliu has an unusual fate. She carries her memories through endless reincarnations, yet has never even found the gates of the underworld. Still, she insists on courting death, determined to take a one-day tour of the underworld. She never expected that as soon as she passed through the Ghost Gate, she would encounter Qiu Li, the Ghost King whose name terrified everyone.

He didn't even lift his eyelids. With a wave of his hand, he tore the tendons and bones from the troublesome malicious ghost, then sliced off its head.

The malicious ghost knelt and begged for mercy. "Please, don't eat me!"

The Ghost King tossed its ragged soul into the air. "Eat you? You're not worthy."

The next moment, his eyes, deep as a secluded pool, glanced toward Jiang Liuliu in the corner. "I want this ghost."

So, beside the Stone of Three Lives, Jiang Liuliu trembled, bracing herself to be eaten. Instead, the Ghost King pulled her into his arms and pressed his lips to hers.

Jiang Liuliu: ...Are you sick or something?

The Six Judges of the Underworld: Oh my, the iron tree has blossomed after a thousand years.

Judge Wei Xian: I can't watch this.

Later, when the Ghost King jolted awake from a dream and murmured in a trembling voice, "Liuliu, don't leave me," Jiang Liuliu finally realized that the Ghost King was a clingy yandere who loved to faint, act cute, and beg for hugs in every possible way. Even when she reincarnated, he would haunt her and cling to her.

Much later, Jiang Liuliu finally learned that he had willingly condemned himself to the underworld for all eternity for her sake.

[Upcoming novel: Reborn, I Switched Crown Princes]

Wei Shengnan died in her phoenix robe on the very day her husband was named crown prince.

Her once humble and obedient husband, Xuanyuan Jie, transformed into a crown prince who had been lost among the common people. With a haughty wave of his hand, he slaughtered her entire family. "If only you'd behaved, you could still have been Crown Princess."

Wei Shengnan sneered. So the deep love she had believed in was nothing but his long-planned scheme to use her. Her entire Shangshu family had been nothing more than stepping stones for his rise to power. Clutching a cup of poisoned wine, she walked away without hesitation.

Reborn at last, she found herself at the Lantern Festival. Wei Shengnan's gaze turned dark: She would enter the Eastern Palace, and she would replace the Crown Prince!

So, in front of everyone, Wei Shengnan tore to pieces the love poem Xuanyuan Jie had presented to her with such tender affection, then trampled his false sincerity beneath her feet. After that, she climbed straight into the carriage of Zhan Beiming, a notorious playboy.

Zhan Beiming, who had been enjoying the soft warmth in his arms, smiled with eager anticipation. "What courage, miss. How about spending the night together?"

Wei Shengnan gazed at the useless prince before her, all debonair charm and wanton manners, and smiled. "How about we make a deal?"

Many years later, in the Eastern Palace, Zhan Beiming finally dropped his fox's mask. He pushed Wei Shengnan into a corner of the bed and hooked a finger into the gossamer-thin skirt she wore.

Wei Shengnan raised an eyebrow in displeasure. "Your Highness, you're taking the role too far."

Zhan Beiming's voice was hoarse. "Hmm? Didn't you give me your heart ages ago? Are you trying to welsh on the deal?"

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Xuanyuan Jie was the result of one night of passion involving the old emperor. Though he should have lived a life of luxury, his fate was as precarious as a duckweed, and he was brought low. That was until he met Wei Shengnan, the Shangshu's daughter.

He disliked her dull, stiff manner, yet he still went out of his way to curry favor with her. At last, he used the influence behind her to rise above everyone else. He thought, at least she was obedient. There was no real harm in letting her live.

But why had his obedient, dull little woman suddenly gotten involved with the infamous playboy of the court? Why was he going mad with jealousy? And, even worse, why was the throne he was about to claim flying away along with that woman?

A handy guide:

1. No getting back together after a breakup; the second male lead gets his just deserts.

2. The male lead only pretends to be a playboy. All the women around him are just a smokescreen.

[Currently serializing: The Sound of Light]

Lin Ting met someone on the darkest, most helpless day of her life. He appeared like a ray of light and sank deep into her heart.

He gave her a cake and said in a hoarse voice, "Happy New Year!"

She carefully saved the plush bear from the cake box and secretly confided all her girlish thoughts to it.

But she hadn't gotten a good look at his face. All she remembered were his amber eyes, filled with nonchalance. Yet she felt those eyes were like the winter sun: bright but not dazzling, gentle but not scorching. They made her want to draw closer.

She thought she would never see him again.

Then she transferred to Tenth High School, where a boy named Mu Bai had a pair of eyes exactly like his.

Lin Ting's heart fluttered before she could stop it. She cautiously tested the waters, only to get a curt, icy "You're annoying" from Mu Bai.

He stepped in to help her in the hot-water room, saving her from getting scalded, but afterward he coldly told her, "Don't read too much into it. It had nothing to do with you."

He chatted and laughed freely in front of everyone, but when he was alone with her, he couldn't be bothered to say one extra word.

Lin Ting finally gave up on him and tried to avoid spending too much time around him.

But in a dark alley on a moonless, windy night, the boy grabbed her sleeve and asked in a timid whisper, "I thought you never liked me."

Lin Ting: ???

Mu Bai: "Also, that plush bear... If you really like it that much, I could actually give you a bigger one..."

Lin Ting: "Another one?"

Lin Ting: !!!

PS:

1. A short story, fully written and ready to post.

2. Set around 2010.

3. A healing story: a sensitive, introverted heroine and a warm-hearted, tsundere hero.

Theme: Live earnestly, and you won't let down those who bear the weight of the world for you.