Raising Gu

[Complete. The full-butterfly ABO story is in the author's upcoming works: After Marrying an Alpha Disguised as a Beta]

A Gu cultivator picked up a woman to use as a tester for his Gu.

At first, she was obedient and compliant. If he told her to go east, she would never go west.

Later, she became content to lie flat. He could pound on the door loud enough to shake the house, but she would still sleep soundly.

The Gu cultivator ordered his insects to undo the latch. His face cold, he strode inside.

Moonlight poured in through the window. The woman on the bed turned over groggily.

The Gu cultivator stopped beside the bed. After a long pause, he coolly tucked the blanket back over her.

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Qiu Man spent more than a decade as someone else's medicine tester. One day, her poison flared up and left her in a deathlike coma, and she was wrapped in a straw mat and dumped in a mass grave.

Luckily, a mysterious Gu cultivator passing by saved her.

Unfortunately, there was no cure for the poison in her body. If she agreed to be his Gu tester, he could prolong her life by a few years.

Qiu Man lay on the bed and laughed.

She had spent the first half of her life testing medicine and would spend the second half testing Gu. This broken life of hers was worth quite a bit.

Whatever. Whether she lived or died, she didn't care. If she died, so be it. It wasn't as if she wanted to live that badly.

Qiu Man simply lay flat and waited to die. She spent a few springs and autumns doing so, and by the time her enemies had been executed, entire families and all, she was still stubbornly alive.

Sick and suddenly sitting bolt upright, Qiu Man thought: Hey, this isn't right!

A sweet, devoted 1v1 romance. The cold-blooded weirdo who later turns into a ghostly, obsessive Gu cultivator male lead x a female lead who doesn't care whether she lives or dies and lies flat waiting for death.

Upcoming 1: The Ghost Husband and His Wife of Three Years

After her husband died, the wife faithfully observed three years of widowhood. Recently, though, she began to notice strange things happening at home.

The water vat was always full. The dishes she didn't get around to washing one day would be clean the next. Her clingy cat would occasionally bristle and growl at her, while her unpleasant neighbor turned pale and lowered his head to avoid her whenever he saw her.

Strangest of all, even though it was the height of summer, she felt cool and comfortable every night when she went to bed.

Even with the windows shut, a cool breeze would brush softly past her ear in the middle of the night.

One night, a familiar heat woke the wife. When she opened her eyes, her husband, who should have been dead for three years, was holding her gently in his arms. His cold, slender fingers moved unhurriedly inside her mouth.

A timid, honest wife who fears ghosts x a yandere ghost husband

Upcoming 2: The Mountain God's Bride

Xi Nan wandered into a sacred mountain and was caught by a local brute who meant to toss her into a pot and cook her.

At the critical moment, the Mountain God descended from the sky wearing an antelope mask and sliced off the brute's head with one stroke of his sword.

Xi Nan scrambled out of the pot with all her strength, collapsed on the ground, and looked up at the Mountain God's antelope mask, still dripping with blood.

The Mountain God looked down at her face.

After a moment, he tossed aside his battered sword and carefully wiped the blood from his fingers with his sleeve.

Then he reached out to her and asked curiously, “Are you the bride they sent me?”

Xi Nan stared blankly, unable to respond.

Thinking she had been frightened, the Mountain God was about to help summon her soul back.

At last, Xi Nan's very slow brain caught up. She shook her head repeatedly. “I'm not your bride. The person you just killed was.”

The Mountain God looked at the headless, eight-foot-tall man in wedding clothes on the ground, then at Xi Nan's sincere eyes.

He fell silent for a moment.

Bending down, he affectionately stroked her face. “What nonsense are you talking about? You're the bride fate destined for me.”

A love-at-first-sight, sweet-on-the-outside-and-dark-within Mountain God x an ordinary woman with an extremely slow reaction time

Theme: Cherish life. Being alive is what matters most.