Survival Begins with Summoning Nezha [Mythology Crossover]

Blurb:

The fragile office worker Ying Ling opens her eyes and discovers she's been dragged into a survival cultivation game.

[Monster attacks, bone-scraping windstorms, dancing thunderbolts, freezing nights, rain mixed with snow, plague miasma, scorching droughts, and other disasters are coming. Upgrade your personal safehouse as soon as possible!]

The mountains are vast and deserted, teeming with monsters. Ying Ling knows nothing about surviving in the wilderness, but awakens the Alchemist profession and the talent skill "Drawing."

Help, does an artist have any prospects in a survival game?!

The violent red panda she summons tells Ying Ling, "Your future is so bright you can't see it!"

Ying Ling: QAQ Babe, are you trying to say my future is bleak and I'm doomed?

The mountains stretch endlessly. Everyone struggles to survive, and everyone has their own cheat.

The fragile mage Ying Ling works hard to grow stronger, hoping to achieve magical freedom from housework and magical freedom to stockpile supplies.

Ying Ling settles in the mountains with her red panda, who's obsessed with being the strongest. Every day brings a different fragrant feast: a stew piled high with mountain delicacies, lamb skewers sprinkled generously with cumin and chili, huge chicken legs fried golden brown...

The wild boar monsters, white snake spirits, fox spirits, and monkey spirits in the mountains smell the delicious food and swallow hard, one after another showing up at her door.

The pigs farm, the snakes shake milk tea, the monkeys brew wine, and the foxes serve as housekeepers. Ying Ling's survival gets better and better, and her online shop keeps listing delicious food with beneficial effects: savory, rich bamboo shoot and cured-meat fried rice, osmanthus wine from the Moon Palace, and crispy, springy fried yellow croaker.

Wind disasters, thunder disasters, freezes, snowstorms... Ying Ling survives one trial after another, growing closer and closer to the mountain spirits. Then one day, her red panda suddenly transforms into a little figure in red.

Later, the little figure in red grows into a man in red who introduces himself as Nezha, the Third Prince.

Ying Ling turns to stone: The red panda I've been kissing, cuddling, sniffing, and rubbing against this whole time was actually the legendary Nezha, the Third Prince?!

Guys, am I going to make it out of this alive?

"What do you mean I can't get in your bed anymore?" The handsome young god of war, smelling of lotus, tilts his head and pinches Ying Ling's cheek. "The golden dog can, but my original form can't? Are you messing with me?"

Ying Ling turns beet red: "...!"

On the day everything is finally accomplished, Ying Ling works up her courage and confesses: "Great Nezha, I like you. Would you go out with me?"

Nezha, deliberately sticking his leg out to block her so she has to climb over him to get to the inner side of the bed: "?"

Haven't we been dating this whole time??

The CP is Nezha, who transforms into a violent red panda. He comes 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 animals.

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Blurb for "My Worthy Husband Helps Me Reach for the Clouds (Matriarchal Society)":

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 has transmigrated at all. Instead, she thinks she has a mental illness, because the person who established the rites of the Zhou Dynasty is called the Matriarch Zhou, not the Duke of Zhou; the famous thinkers of the Hundred Schools of Thought are called Matriarch Kong, Matriarch Meng, Matriarch Lao, Matriarch Zhuang, Matriarch Mo... As far as the eye can see, all those in power are women.

After transmigrating, Chang Ying's seemingly frail father constantly lectures her, telling her to study hard, enter government service, make a name for herself, and earn him an honorific title.

The sons of the Xi clan matriarch notice Chang Ying's efforts and her father's ambitions, and start giving her trouble.

The eldest son of the Xi family, who has been widowed without a second marriage, raises his phoenix eyes. "With that rat-faced mug of yours, you think you can become an official?"

The stern, rigid second son of the Xi family says, "A toad dreaming of eating swan meat. What makes a lowlife like you think you can marry a nobleman?"

The rakish, flirtatious third son of the Xi family says, "With your qualifications, little sister... Anyway, you'll be marrying into another family. Why not let me have you instead?~"

Only the fourth son of the Xi family blinks his watery eyes while stuffing money into Chang Ying's arms. "I believe you can pass the imperial examinations, big sister. When you do, you have to come back and marry me!"

The gentle, considerate fourth son even prepares Chang Ying with a personal attendant who can act as both bodyguard and bed warmer. Before Chang Ying sets out, he uses every means at his disposal to get her to take both him and his attendant as lovers.

After Chang Ying passes the jinshi examination, the head of the Xi family is delighted and prepares to hold a grand wedding. But the four brothers get into a fight over who will marry into her family

The eldest says, "I'm the oldest. How can a younger brother marry into a family before his older brother?!"

The second says, "Our eldest brother already drove one wife to her death. Does he want to drive another to her death too? He should stay home and serve our mother and father!"

The third says, "Our two older brothers are more stubborn than stones in a latrine. How could they serve a woman? If they marry into another family, they'll probably make enemies!"

The fourth starts crying. "But I was here first!"

The only son of the Guangyang Prince, the emperor's only younger sister, says, "What's all the fuss? I'm the only man who's going to marry Ying Niang! The rest of you, get lost!"

Later, the emperor acknowledges the little attendant as a member of the imperial clan, making him the only imperial prince in the court. He steals Chang Ying away, saying, "Ying Niang, unlike my cousin, I know what a man's duties are! A man who can't give a woman heirs is a jealous man! Go focus on your career, Ying Niang. I'll find you all the people you want for your household!"

Later still, Chang Ying's son marries into the imperial family and serves the crown prince, giving birth to the imperial grandson. The crown prince dies just a year after ascending the throne, and the imperial grandson takes the throne as an infant.

As the young emperor's grandmother, Chang Ying naturally becomes the powerful regent who holds sway over the whole 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 things readers may want to know: 1. Men can give birth; 2. The female lead will not become emperor, but will reach the pinnacle of ministerial power; 3. All male love interests are virgins; 4. This novel has a high-martial-arts setting; 5. The world has a matrilineal fertility-worship tradition; 6. Some sons who marry out are buried beside their mothers; 7. More details may be added later.

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Blurb One: Zhao Ke transmigrates as the daughter of an ordinary farming family in the Yu Dynasty. She eats rice mixed with bran and wild greens and wears patched clothes. At three, she looks after her younger brother; at five, she cooks; at seven, she's sent to the new county magistrate's residence to serve as a maid to his daughter.

Thank heavens the magistrate is a woman. Working for the magistrate's daughter, who neglects her studies, Zhao Ke gratefully helps her memorize lessons and do her homework, while vowing to pass the imperial exams and marry a husband.

Her parents didn't sell Zhao Ke into slavery. She still has freeborn status and can take the imperial exams.

When Zhao Ke is thirteen, the magistrate's powerful patron loses a political struggle, and the whole family falls. Her parents come to take her home, intending to arrange a good marriage for her: the chubby son of the town butcher, an honest, obedient, strong boy.

Zhao Ke begs her parents to let her take the imperial exams once, but they refuse.

Despondent, Zhao Ke accidentally falls into the moat. Her former young mistress saves her, and her parents think she tried to drown herself. Terrified, they agree to let her take the exams once.

Zhao Ke passes the county, prefectural, and academy examinations, becoming the first woman with a xiucai degree in the whole area!

The whole village is in an uproar!

From xiucai to juren to jinshi, Zhao Ke takes one examination after another, climbing higher and higher.

From county magistrate to prefect to chancellor, Zhao Ke rises step by step to the pinnacle of officialdom, with a worthy husband by her side.

Blurb Two:

Zhao Ke transmigrates as the daughter of an ordinary farming family in the Yu Dynasty.

Meals mixed with grit, bran, and wild greens; clothes full of patches; and a life whose end is almost visible from the start

At three, she looks after her younger brother; at five, she cooks; at seven, she does laundry; at nine, she is introduced to potential matches; at ten, she diligently weaves cloth.

At fifteen, she marries the butcher's younger son. For the rest of her life, she'll go from being a daughter-in-law to becoming a mother-in-law.

On the day the new county magistrate visits the countryside, Zhao Ke sees another possible life:

Gongs and drums clear the way, guards carry staffs and spears, a soft sedan chair is borne along, and more than forty people surround it.

The curtain lifts, revealing someone wearing 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 examinations, and become officials too.

White rice and fine fish and meat; clothes for every season and houses with blue-brick walls;

They can choose a spouse from among the respectable young men trained and educated by the government. They are young, good-looking, and every one of them graduates with excellent morals as a man.

This is how powerful women in the Yu Dynasty live.

Zhao Ke wants to become one of them: someone above the rest!

Years later, her descendants ask the old woman basking in the sun beneath the grape trellis, "Grandmother, how did you go from a village girl to chancellor?"

The elderly Zhao Ge laughs. "Our dynasty's laws say that anyone with academic honors must establish a separate household and cannot marry into another family as a son-in-law or daughter-in-law."

"I didn't want to get married, so I buried myself in books."

Some things readers may want to know:

1. The dynasty is fictional, with inspiration from the Song and Ming dynasties. The founding emperor and the second and third generations were all women. The middle generations haven't been decided yet. There are lots of original details, so there will definitely be plot holes.

2. This is not a matriarchal society. It only opens a crack in the ancient patriarchal clan system, allowing a small number of women to legally pass down their family name and property.

3. There is a male lead. He is a relative of the imperial clan outside the official line, has high martial strength, and starts out flawed. The cruel realities of life will teach him a lesson later. Don't demand things from the female lead or criticize her out of sympathy for the male lead. The author won't listen.

4. The female lead may have more than one romantic relationship. After all, this is an era when women can become officials, so having a few male confidants is normal.

Theme: Respect fate and the natural order, do good, and build up virtue.