After Waking Up, I Became the Stone Lion in Front of a Dilapidated Temple

Coming soon: The Big Shot Only Wants to Cultivate Immortality, blurb at the end. Come add it to your library! This one's a comedy too!

Nan Xiao woke from a dream one day to find herself turned into a stone lion at the entrance of a ruined temple on a desolate mountain. The mountain was all sheer cliffs, without even a path to walk on. Yet through the haze, a voice told her she had to fill the merit box at the temple entrance to turn back into a human.

Nan Xiao looked up at the sky. "Turn back into a human? Why would I want to be human? Is being human fun? Could it possibly be more fun than being a stone lion?!"

But then lightning struck, and she was forced to become human.

Nan Xiao: "How awful..."

After spending her time slacking off in all sorts of ways, she discovered that she could actually make wishes come true. A butterfly, starving and freezing, wished for a field of flowers on the desolate mountain, and Nan Xiao really did conjure one up.

Nan Xiao: "A new lease on life? A fresh start? A chance to survive?"

I thought I was just an ordinary stone lion, but it turns out I'm a stone lion who can grant wishes?!

I feel like I can do this after all!

The flowers covering the mountain attracted visitors. They built a road themselves and came to admire the flowers. When they saw the ruined temple, they made wishes as a joke, never expecting them to actually come true!

But when a gloomy young man in tattered clothes made a dubious, dark wish in front of the ruined temple, his wish didn't come true. Instead, his life became bright from that moment on.

Young man: "???"

Years later, a legend circulated in S City. A publicly traded company on the verge of bankruptcy had found its heir, and he had turned the company around and saved it from going under. He was supposedly handsome and cold, but had a strange hobby: searching for and collecting stone lions?!

Nan Xiao never expected that one day, as a stone lion, she would be cornered in an alley.

Lu Shiyan glared at Nan Xiao, who had turned human, and demanded, "Why was my wish the only one that didn't come true?! You have to make it up to me! You have to spend your whole life making it up to me!"

Nan Xiao: "Help! Someone's kidnapped a stone lion!"

Goofy chatterbox X quiet, gloomy type

Blurb written on July 11, 2021

Coming soon: The Big Shot Only Wants to Cultivate Immortality

Lu Kuiyi had always been unlucky. Even when she was undergoing tribulation to reach the Mahayana stage, she transmigrated straight into a future where spiritual energy had run dry.

"I'm used to it. I can cultivate anywhere, and there are plenty of things here to practice on."

After that, she cleared out a zombie den one day, killed an S-rank mutant the next, and even caught the attention of the Eastern District Alliance.

Underling A: "Boss, there's a woman in strange clothes nearby. She wiped out that dump in the Western District."

Su Cheng: "..."

Underling B: "Boss, that woman in strange clothes is torturing zombies in the south and asking if they'll surrender. It looks like she recruited them as her subordinates. She also killed the S-rank mutant that was giving the Northern District a headache, and allied with the Northern District!"

Su Cheng: "???"

Underling C: "Boss, that woman is heading this way. She probably wants to steal our supplies and food."

Su Cheng: "Come with me. Everyone, grab your weapons."

Lu Kuiyi arrived gracefully on a flying bird and landed in front of Su Cheng. Seeing the spiritual energy radiating from him, her eyes lit up. "Young man, you have extraordinary bones. Would you like to dual... cultivate with me? No, would you like to cultivate immortality with me?"

Su Cheng: "Where did this scammer come from? Attack!"

Lu Kuiyi took a vast quantity of supplies from her storage ring and asked again, "I wonder if these betrothal gifts... I mean, these gifts for taking you as my disciple, will be enough?"

Everyone: "Hello, sister-in-law!"

Years later, Su Cheng finally learned that Lu Kuiyi really was a cultivator. It was just that when she said she wanted to cultivate with him, she really meant cultivation.

Su Cheng pinned Lu Kuiyi in his arms and asked, "How come you didn't mean it when you said we'd dual... cultivate together back then?!"

Lu Kuiyi smiled. "I've reached the full Great Mahayana stage. I'm ready to go back."

Su Cheng: "You liar! I accepted the betrothal gifts, and there's no refund or exchange. You still think you can return the bride?"

Lu Kuiyi takes what she wants by force (not really).

1. When the heroine says dual... cultivation, she means cultivating together.

2. The heroine has maxed out swordsmanship, alchemy, and talismans. She's strong, really strong.

3. The worldbuilding is all made up.

Theme: Always embrace the sunshine, no matter what.