Live-Streaming Strange Tales at Kaifeng Prefecture

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Bai Xiaofan transmigrated and became the spirit of the Great Song's number one restaurant...!

Ha! I may not be able to afford a house, but I can be a house spirit!

As a spirit, I can lie flat and still have food and drink. Every day, I get to admire beauties and listen to music. What could be more delightful?

I could live like this for ten thousand years!

Until one day, I received a message carried by a homing pigeon:

SOS! Help, Second Sister! I've been kidnapped by an old monster! From: Younger Sister. Location: Lanruo Temple

o(╯□╰)o The old monster who kidnapped you isn't called Granny, is it?

Also, if I'm the second sister, who's the eldest? Could her surname be Xuanyuan and her given name Tomb?

My peaceful, carefree days were gone for good, and my sweet little story of eating and drinking took a sharp turn.

The beauty in the painting on the wall wept in the middle of the night, and water flooded the third floor.

The dead duck in the kitchen sprang to life and tore the kitchen apart with its claws.

The rat under the floor suddenly turned into a handsome man. The rest is indescribable.

The thousand-year-old tree in the courtyard burst open and gave birth to nine babies, then insisted they were mine...

Oh, come on! I'm just an ordinary little restaurant. How could I make a tree... get pregnant and give birth?

I'm not listening, I'm not listening! All ghosts, begone!

Nine little monster dumplings chased after me, calling me Mama.

Each one ate more than the last, and every one of them was a champion at wrecking the house.

To raise the little ones, Bai Xiaofan had no choice but to livestream tales of the strange in the Kaifeng Prefecture.

Along the way, he also broadcast variety shows from the Great Song's Baifan Tower and wanted posters from the Kaifeng Prefecture's Seven Gates.

Dazzling one second, horrifying the next. All this and more at the Great Song's number one restaurant!

Beneath Bianjing lies another city. A thousand feet below it stands the Xuanyuan Tomb, which has existed since ancient times.

Legend says it holds the remains of an ancient divine dragon. But the world has changed, the road to heaven is severed, and immortals are nowhere to be found.

Countless demons and ghosts roam Bianjing, all searching for the divine tomb.

Even a single scale or claw could be forged into a divine weapon.

Who could have guessed that a piece of Ganmu would end up inside a restaurant built by mortals?

Ganmu is an immortal tree, also known as... a dragon blood tree. It became a spirit after receiving dragon's blood.

Xuanyuan Mu: Now do you know how you became a spirit?

Bai Xiaofan: Because... of your blood? Those nine monster dumplings couldn't really be...

Xuanyuan Mu: (Nods) They're our sons, our biological children.

Bai Xiaofan: (Weakly) ...What do we do if they're such big eaters that we can't afford to raise them?

Xuanyuan Mu: How about... catching a few demons and monsters and taking them to the Kaifeng Prefecture's Seven Gates to claim the reward?

From then on, whenever people at the Kaifeng Prefecture saw the couple, they immediately shut the doors.

Stop bringing us demons and monsters! The reward money isn't enough, we're going bankrupt!

Upcoming: "Tales of Demons in Bianjing," also a collection of strange tales. This time, there's no romance, just a case-solving story with no CP.

Blurb:

When scholar Ning Ruxu traveled to the capital to sit the imperial examinations, he spent the night in a ruined temple and sheltered a white fox that had been struck by lightning. From then on, the door to a whole new world opened before him.

He could share the senses of demons. In short, he could take over a demon's body and hear its thoughts.

Legends say demons, ghosts, and fox spirits transform into beauties who keep scholars company as they read.

But the ones Ning Ruxu encountered were all demons seeking his help to speak for them and overturn their wrongful convictions.

Ning Ruxu: I'm just an ordinary mortal...

Wangyue (little fox spirit): But you can hear what we say and see what we see, so of course you have to speak for us!

The little otter who carved a boat to ask for help: If you won't clear my family's master's name and help me find my mother, then come down here and keep me company!

The ornate painted-skin palace lantern: I can't shake off the blame I've been saddled with, so I'll pin it on you!

The tree demon whose solitary tree forms a forest: Humans bury all sorts of things at my feet and stuff them into my hollow. Then they turn around and accuse me of eating people... If an exorcist really comes to kill me, then I'll really have to eat people!

Trembling, Ning Ruxu pushed aside the sword of Yan Chongguang, the Kaifeng Prefecture's famed detective. "Master Yan, this 'water ghost' isn't the killer. It was that boatman, because... I can hear criminals' thoughts!"

The one demanding a life to replace its own on the river was not the little otter who carved a boat to ask for help, but a boatman who had murdered someone and dumped the body.

The one bewitching people's hearts was not the breathtakingly beautiful painted-skin palace lantern, but the imperial painter, whose mind was clouded by lust.

The one devouring people without a trace was not the tree demon, but a trafficker who abducted women and children.

The one who massacred an entire household was not the snake demon disturbed when the new house's main beam was raised, but a greedy blacksmith who stole treasure.

The one demanding boys and girls as sacrifices to the River God was not the Dragon King imprisoned in the abyss, but the "Imperial Preceptor," who used the opportunity to extort money and eliminate rivals...

Upcoming 2: "Top of the Golden List (Imperial Examinations)," a native of the imperial examination system versus a transmigrator.

Only after Tang Mingke died did he learn that someone had stolen his destiny.

In his original life, he could read at three, compose poetry at five, pass the lowest-level imperial examination at seven, and become the youngest top scholar in the dynasty at sixteen.

He would marry a princess and become her consort, then smoothly rise to become the dynasty's chief minister. He would be a winner in life, The Outcast, beneath one person and above ten thousand.

But everything changed when his father brought home a son born to his concubine.

The year he was supposed to pass the lowest-level examination, he fell ill and was confined to bed. His half-brother, Zhou Wenyuan, passed instead, while Tang Mingke suffered a fever that wouldn't break for three days.

The year he was supposed to become the top scholar, a famous Qinhuai courtesan hanged herself outside his home, claiming he had seduced her and then abandoned her.

His half-brother produced evidence that he had cheated in the imperial examinations. Unable to defend himself, Tang Mingke was stripped of his scholarly rank and reduced to a commoner.

Though he had been the legitimate son, someone accused him of being the false child switched at birth.

And so his former half-brother became his legitimate elder brother, passed the examinations as the top scholar, married a princess, and became her consort...

Meanwhile, Tang Mingke was thrown out of his home and left destitute on the streets. He died of hunger and cold in the first heavy snowfall of winter in the capital.

Reborn, he saw the boy trailing after his father's heels. This time, he would never foolishly mistake him for an elder brother and let him steal his literary talent and destiny.

Even if he left this marquis's residence and lost the status and family connections it afforded him,

only his name would appear at the top of the golden list.

Theme: No matter what difficulties you encounter, face them bravely.