My Zoo Connects to the Classic of Mountains and Seas

Xiang Yue went to his hometown during the holidays. By chance, he found eight volumes of the Classic of Mountains and Seas at home and was sucked into them, arriving in another world. After transmigrating, he was chased by bizarre beasts, then nearly surrounded and killed by a group of savages. Just as he thought he was about to be reborn, a divine beast descended from the sky and rescued him. Xiang Yue then learned that the beast that had saved him was actually Chenghuang, the mythical creature said to grant its rider two thousand extra years of life. Xiang Yue, who had just been carried for a lap through the sky: Am I immortal now? After Xiang Yue returned to the modern world and learned how to travel between the two realms, he began an extraordinary journey between worlds. The other world was full of immortal herbs and magical fruits for him to pick, and legendary beasts were always asking to come home with him. To give these beasts a place to stay, Xiang Yue opened a zoo. Before long, the people of City C discovered a new zoo on the outskirts. All the animals there were incredibly strange. They were beautiful and adorable, but each seemed to have some kind of mutation or disability. A bird with one leg, a little blue tiger, a fox with two horns on its back, and even a white fox with two tails... For a time, this zoo became one of City C's legendary oddities. Everyone was curious about where the owner had found so many bizarre little animals. Then a beast that could summon violent typhoons and wreak havoc across an entire region appeared at the zoo. When a plague was raging, the blue sparrow that always carried a branch drove it away with a long, soaring song. Everyone: ╭(⊙o⊙)╮ This zoo has a whole lot going on! [One-on-one romance, lighthearted with no angst] Please add my next novel, Upgrading Instance Dungeons [Infinite], to your to-read list. Blurb: Student C was a cannon-fodder NPC in an E-rank trial instance in the Infinite World. His death was a crucial part of setting the instance's plot in motion. Normally, this was no big deal, because the Infinite World had no shortage of cannon fodder with gruesome deaths... That is, if Student C hadn't awakened self-awareness. If the trial instance he was in didn't keep restarting in an endless loop. If he didn't have to repeat his death over and over, in different ways, while fully conscious. * As a cannon-fodder NPC in a low-level instance, Ji Yu'an existed to die and set the instance's storyline in motion. After awakening self-awareness, Ji Yu'an wanted to escape his fate, but he couldn't control his body. The players, in pursuit of their so-called storyline, drove him to his death again and again, leaving him with no way out. To make matters worse, because the instance was such a low rank, many new players chose it for their trials. Occasionally, veteran players, psychologically twisted by the physical and mental trauma of higher-level instances, would deliberately come to low-level instances to torment the monsters and vent their resentment. Ji Yu'an suffered endlessly. But he discovered that the more times he died, the more control he gradually gained over his body. He was getting closer and closer to freedom. * One day, as another batch of newcomers entered the trial instance