Survival Begins with Summoning Nezha [Mythology Crossover]

Updated daily at 18:00. This story’s pairing: Nezha, a steady, battle-hardened god of war who hasn’t lost his bloodlust, VS Ying Ling, a fragile spellcasting genius who’s gentle, lonely, and a bit of a white knight. Blurb: Ying Ling, a fragile office worker, opens her eyes to find herself pulled into a survival-and-cultivation game. 【Demon beast attacks, bone-scraping windstorms, dancing thunderbolts, freezing nights, sleet-lashed downpours, poisonous plague miasma, scorching droughts, and other disasters are on their way. Upgrade your personal shelter as soon as possible!】 The mountains are vast and uninhabited, teeming with demon beasts. Ying Ling knows nothing about surviving in the wilderness, but awakens the “Qi Refiner” class and the “Drawing” talent skill. Help, does an artist have any future in a survival game?! The violent little red panda she summons tells her, “Your future is so bright you can’t even see it!” Ying Ling: QAQ Sweetie, did you mean I have no future and I’m doomed? The mountains stretch on endlessly. Everyone struggles to survive, each with their own special cheat. The fragile mage Ying Ling works hard to get stronger, hoping to achieve spell-powered freedom from household chores and spell-powered freedom to stockpile supplies. Ying Ling settles in the mountains with the little red panda, who’s obsessed with being the strongest. Every day brings a different fragrant feast: a hot pot brimming with mountain delicacies, lamb skewers generously dusted with cumin and chili, golden-fried chicken legs... The wild boar monsters, white snake spirits, fox spirits, and monkey spirits in the mountains smell the delicious food and swallow their drool, one after another coming right to her door. The piggies farm, the snakes shake milk tea, the monkeys brew wine, and the foxes serve as little housekeepers. Ying Ling’s survival gets better and better, and her online shop keeps adding delicious power-boosting foods: savory, glistening fried rice with bamboo shoots and cured pork, osmanthus rice wine from the Moon Palace, and crispy, springy fried yellow croaker. Windstorms, lightning, freezes, snowstorms... Ying Ling survives one trial after another, growing ever closer to the mountain spirits. Then one day, the little red panda suddenly transforms into a tiny figure in red. Later, the little figure in red grows into an adult, claiming to be Nezha, Third Prince of the Lotus. Ying Ling turns to stone. The little red panda she’d been kissing, cuddling, nuzzling, and cuddling close to is actually the legendary Nezha, Third Prince of the Lotus?! Everyone, will I make it back alive? “What do you mean, I can’t get in your bed anymore?” The handsome young god of war, fragrant with lotus, tilts his head and pinches Ying Ling’s cheek. “The golden dog can, but I can’t in my original form? Are you playing me?” Ying Ling’s face turns scarlet. “...!” The day Ying Ling reaches first place in all three server rankings, she gathers her courage and confesses: “Great God Nezha, I like you. Will you go out with me?” Nezha has deliberately planted his feet across the way, making her climb over him to get to the inside of the bed. “?” Haven’t we been dating this whole time? The CP is Nezha, who transforms into a violent little red panda. He appears in all sorts of sizes. The setting is mostly fictional, with some characters from Journey to the West, Investiture of the Gods, and Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, as well as original animal characters. Divider for Pre-Release Novel 1 The Virtuous Husband Helps Me Reach for the Clouds (Matriarchal Society), blurb: Chang Ying is an ordinary, honest woman. One day, on her way to work, she suddenly transmigrates to an ancient matriarchal society where women outrank men. She becomes the unwanted stepchild of a remarried father who has married into the powerful Xi clan. For a long time, Chang Ying doesn’t feel as if she’s transmigrated at all. Instead, she thinks she’s gone insane, because the person who established the Rites of Zhou in this world is called the Matron of Zhou, not the Duke of Zhou. The famous figures of the Hundred Schools of Thought are Matron Kong, Matron Meng, Matron Lao, Matron Zhuang, Matron Mo... Every person in power she sees is a woman. After transmigrating, Chang Ying’s seemingly frail father lectures her every day, urging her to study hard, enter government service, make a name for herself, and earn him an honorific title. Chang Ying’s hard work and her father’s ambition catch the attention of the sons of the Xi clan matriarch, and they start making trouble for her. The eldest Xi son, a widower whose fiancée died before their wedding, lifts his phoenix eyes. “With your pinched face and beady eyes, you think you can become an official?” The stern, rigid second son says, “A toad dreaming of eating swan meat. You’re a nobody, and you think you can marry a noble man?” The rakish, flirtatious third son says, “With your talents, little sister... Since you’ll be marrying into another family anyway, why not do me a favor~” Only the fourth Xi son slips money into Chang Ying’s arms with dewy eyes. “I know you’ll pass the exams, Sister. When you do, you have to come back and marry me!” The gentle, thoughtful fourth son even prepares a houseboy for Chang Ying, someone who can act as both bodyguard and bedwarmer. Before Chang Ying sets off, he uses both force and persuasion to make sure she formally accepts both him and his servant. After Chang Ying passes the imperial examinations, the Xi clan matriarch is delighted and prepares to throw a grand wedding. But the four brothers end up fighting over who will marry into her family. The eldest Xi son says, “I’m the oldest. How can a younger brother marry into her family before his elder brother does?!” The second Xi son says, “Our eldest brother already got his first wife killed. Does he really intend to get another one killed? He should stay home and serve our mother and father!” The third Xi son says, “Our two elder brothers are harder than stones in a latrine. How could they ever serve a woman? If either of them married into her family, they’d surely make an enemy of her!” The fourth Xi son bursts into tears. “But I was here first!” The only son of the Guangyang Prince, the emperor’s sole younger sister, says, “What are you arguing about? I’m the only one who’ll marry into Ying’s family! All of you, get lost!” Later, the young houseboy is recognized by the emperor as a member of the imperial clan and becomes the only royal son in the court. He cuts in and takes Chang Ying for himself. “Ying, unlike my cousin, I know a man’s duty! A man who can’t bear children for a woman is a jealous man! Go pursue your career in peace. Whoever you want in your household, I’ll find them for you!” Later still, the son Chang Ying gives birth to marries into the imperial family and serves the Crown Prince, giving birth to the Crown Prince’s grandson. The Crown Prince ascends the throne, only to die a year later, and the infant grandson becomes emperor. As the young emperor’s maternal grandmother, Chang Ying naturally becomes a regent with power over the entire court. The men in her household celebrate, saying, “We really did marry into the right family!” The only downside, perhaps, is... That seductive Miao man from the southwest who loves showing off his waist and the dark-skinned regent from the northwest have both come to the Chang family estate! Potential content notes: 1. Women can give birth. 2. The heroine will not become emperor; she reaches the pinnacle of service as a subject. 3. All male love interests are virgins. 4. The story has high-martial-arts elements. 5. The worldbuilding includes a matrilineal culture that venerates childbirth. 6. Some sons who marry into other families are buried beside their mothers. 7. More notes may be added later. Divider for Pre-Release Novel 2 Blurb 1: Zhao Ke transmigrates as the daughter of an ordinary farming family in the Yu dynasty. She eats meals mixed with chaff and wild greens, wears patched clothes, looks after her younger brother at three, cooks at five, and at seven is sent to serve as a maid to the young lady at the new county magistrate’s residence. Thank goodness the magistrate is a woman. While serving the magistrate’s daughter, a girl who never applies herself to her studies, Zhao Ke gratefully helps her memorize texts and do her homework, all the while vowing to pass the imperial exams and marry a husband. Her parents didn’t sell Zhao Ke into slavery, so she still has free commoner status and can take the exams. When Zhao Ke is thirteen, the magistrate’s patron loses a political struggle, bringing down the whole family. Her parents come to take Zhao Ke home and arrange a good marriage for her: the fat son of the town butcher, an honest, obedient boy with plenty of strength. Zhao Ke begs her parents to let her take the imperial exams once, but they refuse. Despondent, Zhao Ke slips and falls into the moat. Her former young mistress rescues her. Thinking she tried to drown herself, her parents are so frightened that they agree to let her sit the exams once. Zhao Ke passes the county, prefectural, and academy exams, becoming the first woman with the title of Licentiate in all the villages for miles around! The whole village is in an uproar! Licentiate, provincial graduate, metropolitan graduate: Zhao Ke passes one exam after another, climbing steadily higher. County magistrate, prefect, chancellor: Zhao Ke rises step by step, reaching the highest ranks of government, with a virtuous husband by her side. Blurb 2: Zhao Ke transmigrates as the daughter of an ordinary farming family in the Yu dynasty. Meals mixed with grit, chaff, and wild greens, clothes covered in patches, and a future she can see all the way to the end: Looking after her younger brother at three, cooking at five, doing laundry at seven, meeting prospective matches at nine, and diligently weaving at ten. At fifteen, she’ll marry the butcher’s younger son. For the rest of her life, she’ll work her way from daughter-in-law to mother-in-law. The day the new county magistrate visits the countryside, Zhao Ke glimpses another possible life: Gongs clear the way, guards carry staffs and spears, a soft sedan chair bears the magistrate along, and more than forty people follow in procession. The curtain lifts, revealing a person in a green official robe: a woman?! The constables shout, “The county magistrate is here! Kneel! Bow!” That day, Zhao Ke learns that in the Yu dynasty, women can study, take the imperial exams, and become officials. White rice and fine fish; clothes for all four seasons and a house of gray bricks. For marriage, they can choose a respectable man trained and educated by the government. These young men are handsome, and every graduate has impeccable virtues as a husband. That is the life of powerful women in the Yu dynasty. Zhao Ke wants to become one of them: a person above the rest! Many years later, her descendants ask the old woman basking beneath the grape trellis, “Grandmother, how did you go from a country girl to the chancellor?” The elderly Zhao Ge chuckles. “Our dynasty’s laws say that anyone with an academic degree must establish a separate household, and cannot marry into someone else’s family or become anyone’s daughter-in-law.” “I didn’t want to get married, so I buried myself in books.” A few things readers may want to know: 1. The dynasty is fictional, with inspiration from the Song and Ming. The founding emperor and the second and third generations were all women. The others haven’t been decided yet. There are many original worldbuilding details, so there will definitely be inconsistencies. 2. This is not a matriarchal romance. It’s simply a small crack in the ancient patriarchal clan system, allowing a minority of women to legally pass down their family name and inheritance. 3. There is a male lead, an unofficial member of the imperial clan with great martial prowess. He starts out flawed, and the harsh realities of life eventually teach him a lesson. If you feel sorry for him, please don’t demand things of the heroine or blame her. The author won’t listen. 4. The heroine may have more than one romance. After all, this is an era when women can become officials, so having a few male confidants is only natural. Theme: Respect fate and the natural order, and do good deeds to build good karma.