How Can I Be Happy Without You: Archaeology

My ongoing novel, Records of Strange Tales from the Mountains and Seas, is online and looking for favorites! The blurb is below.

Blurb:

I came into this world and met you. So I must follow you, amid fluttering red blossoms and willow fluff... as we chase the east wind away.

Fu Yixuan

When Rong Xin ran away from Shuzhou, all his money was stolen. With no other way to make ends meet, he started doing “antique business” with the eldest young master of the Fu family. But it turned out that “antique business” was just a cover. What they were really doing was archaeology!

Rong Xin had barely set one foot in his university's archaeology department before the other followed Fu Yixuan into the perilous “Kunlun Ruins Project.”

The young master, a spoiled playboy, took an instant liking to Rong Xin and led him through the gates of archaeology.

Rong Xin: Just as I thought, he's a playboy.

Fu Yixuan: You heartless little brat.

In the 1920s, Japanese adventurers went to Heishui City in search of the secret to immortality. They failed to find the legendary “Ganmu,” and so the “Kunlun Ruins Project” was quietly born.

Amid strange and turbulent times, the unknown stories carved on painted bricks slowly came to light. The stone doors of a Western Xia brick tomb swung open, revealing thousands of colorful murals. Deep in the Liupan Mountains, a blue-glazed lamp glimmered in a Warring States sacrificial pit hidden inside a cave. Where exactly was Min Mountain, concealed within the story of “Cancong and Yufu” in the ancient Shu kingdom?

The Japanese adventurers raised their arms and cried: “Give us immortality without end!”

Rong Xin and Fu Yixuan only sneered: “Keep dreaming!”

Much later, the playboy and the little brat got together, and the servant who witnessed it all felt as if the sky had fallen...

*Down-on-his-luck, refined young master X Western-educated, scholarly playboy. 1v1, happy ending, unconventional sweet romance. The story focuses on their work!!!*

*Everything in this novel is fictional, and the plot comes first. Please don't make assumptions based on the blurb. The full story is what counts. Let's protect our national treasures!*

*The content has no connection to real history or archaeological literature. No nitpicking about historical accuracy, please!!!*

*I may revise the story, but it will only get longer, not shorter. The text may differ from pirate sites, so please support the official version.*

*Thanks to BS Gugu for the cover.*

Blurb screenshotted on 2021.4.11

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* [Pre-release blurb for Records of Strange Tales from the Mountains and Seas]

The ghost realm is impossible to fathom, and the human heart impossible to read. Mortal, I will not be your lab rat.

Fusang

Five thousand years ago, the Dongxiang tribe fell into chaos, and the high priest Fusang died in a sacrifice to Heaven.

Five thousand years later, Jiang Ye went to a forest on the southwestern frontier to apprehend a criminal. He accidentally fell into a cave, and his blood dripped onto a spirit-summoning banner, bringing Fusang back to life.

“A mortal?”

“Look down on mortals, do you?”

Legend says Fusang is the barrier of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. If Fusang awakens, so will the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the world will descend into chaos.

For a time, strange beasts from the Classic of Mountains and Seas emerged one after another. Bloodshed and slaughter spread everywhere, while weeping, sobbing, and roaring echoed across the world. A pall of gray descended over the pale landscape, and the apocalypse began.

The painted scroll was destroyed, the mountains and seas turned upside down, and Fusang emerged...

It was merely history repeating itself. Fusang stepped forward to stop the beasts, just as the high priest had gone to his death all those years ago. But this time, Jiang Ye ran after him and stood by his side.

“I'll stay with you.”

He turned to the mortal and said, “Mortal, I'm tired.”

“Let's go home.”

[Younger gong, ancient-to-modern, 1v1, happy ending. Tsundere high priest VS sharp-tongued team captain. Both are ruthless.]

Theme: Remove the dross and preserve the essence, dispel superstition, and protect our national treasures. It's everyone's responsibility!