Me and My Otherworldly Pals [Another World]

My new novel, "All the Flags Around Me Point to Supernatural Horror," is available to add to your reading list!

[Blurb]

1.

Cheng Mengyun chose a haunted house because it was cheap. The street beside it is lined with shops selling incense and funeral wreaths, and the road ends at the city's public cemetery.

One day, the apocalypse suddenly arrives. Cheng Mengyun, a shut-in with a combat rating of 5, looks at herself, then at the zombies crawling all over the ground, and decides there's no point in throwing herself into the fray.

So, on the very first day of the apocalypse, she immediately decides to add a new urban legend to her haunted house. And then...

She comes back to life.

That's right, she discovers she has an ability: "Immortality."

When a zombie horde arrives, Cheng Mengyun charges at the densely packed zombies and shouts, "Run! I'll hold them off!"

When the zombies attack the city, she charges into their ranks with explosives strapped all over her.

She thinks her ability is already bizarre enough.

Until she runs into the longtime friend who lives across the street, a real piece of work.

2.

Her friend is spotless from head to toe. Cheng Mengyun curiously asks what ability he has to keep himself alive.

He pulls out the suona he used to make extra money before the apocalypse.

Cheng Mengyun: ?

And so, whenever Cheng Mengyun bravely charges into battle using her "Immortality" ability, she has a little companion crying at gravesides and playing the suona.

3.

Later, Cheng Mengyun picks up the "Bank of Heaven and Earth's president," who scatters funeral money, and a little carpenter whose healing ability involves inviting people into coffins.

Cheng Mengyun: ???

Today is another wonderful day for picking up creepy little companions. All they need is an embalmer to complete the full funeral service :)

Reader's guide:

1. A fiercely loyal man who's warm on the outside and cold within, and a sunny, straightforward heroine. Childhood friends, with very strong mutual feelings.

2. Her companions are just friends, with no messy romance plots.

3. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both are virgins. Each other's first love.

4. Because of her ability, the heroine looks a little crooked.

[Blurb for the new novel, "All the Flags Around Me Point to Supernatural Horror"]

1.

Wang Le'an thinks her life is full of horror-movie flags. Every week, a blood-written "death letter" appears in her mailbox, and every night at exactly midnight, someone knocks at her door.

But Wang Le'an is stubborn and nips every flag in the bud.

Isn't there a ghost story about a thirteenth-floor staircase? She immediately grabs some cement and seals it up. The thirteenth floor becomes the twelfth in no time.

Heard the locust trees near her home attract ghosts? She promptly calls in gardeners to cut them down.

She turns down every invitation to explore a mental hospital and every request to vacation in a cabin in the woods.

But she discovers that all sorts of supernatural incidents still happen around her.

Wang Le'an: "Ha ha. Let's just burn it all down."

2.

She thought things would get better after she enrolled in a school run by a church.

But...

Wang Le'an: "So why do all my classmates like playing ghost-summoning games, and telling ghost stories every night? And why are all the school clubs things like the Society for the Study of World Deities, Gods, and Ghosts?!"

She joins the only club that seems normal, the dance club. But during rehearsal, she discovers that the members are teaching a prayer dance for summoning demons?!

3.

Just as she comes to accept that her school is creepy and the town where she lives is creepy too, she discovers that her childhood friend is the creepiest of all.

[The real story]

When people die, they become ghosts and are assigned to live in various towns. While all the other towns preserve the human societies that existed in life, "Flowerhouse Town," the most livable town of the year with the highest happiness rating, is an exception.

While the other mayors are still squeezing their ghosts to work and meet their KPIs, the mayor of "Flowerhouse Town" uses her clones to fill every job in town. The ghosts of "Flowerhouse Town" happily spend their afterlives doing nothing.

Until one day, the mayor, who works around the clock, leaves behind a note requesting time off and disappears.

Then the staff positions filled by the mayor's clones are suddenly left empty. The amusement park shuts down, tourist attractions close, and the ghosts weep in front of their favorite bakery because they can't buy their daily cakes.

The ghosts, spoiled by the mayor's hard work, go mad. At last, they find a young version of the mayor in a newly built villa in town.

The little mayor remembers nothing. She only knows that she's a transfer student who just moved here, and firmly believes she's an ordinary human.

When the ghosts bang on her door in the middle of the night, begging her to come to work, the little mayor puts it down to tinnitus from staying up late, pops in her earplugs, and falls sound asleep.

When the ghosts write letters begging her to end her leave, the little mayor treats them as bad omens and burns them all.

The ghosts have no choice but to turn to the mayor's capable assistant, the demon who maintains order in town.

Then they see the humanoid neighbor next door to the little mayor, with a head of red hair exactly like the demon's. The mayor has gone on vacation with her best friend.

The ghosts: …

Moved by the mayor's tireless work over the past several centuries, all to ensure everyone in town could live a happy life, the ghosts collectively decide to spend this eighteen-year vacation with the little mayor and help her have the normal human life she's always wanted!

The ghosts stumble through learning all sorts of jobs and eavesdrop on conversations to fulfill the little mayor's wishes. The little mayor, who had no parents in life and longs for a family, gets two fake evil spirits claiming to be distant relatives.

Knowing the little mayor longs for school life, the ghosts build a school overnight. They get into a fight over who will play the teachers and who will be students, and the school is already filled with ghost stories before it even opens.

Knowing that the little mayor wants a sweet romance...

All the ghosts freeze, then turn their eyes to the "demon" the mayor likes best. "You're the one!"

The demon: ?

Reader's guide:

1. You do your thing, I'll do mine x looks like she's hiding her identity perfectly but has already been found out. Childhood friends, with very strong mutual feelings. The male lead's true form is a non-humanoid "demon."

2. It's not too scary. I made up all the ghosts, though some are inspired by existing lore.

3. An unusual found-family story. The ghosts are trying their best to act every day.

4. One-on-one romance, happy ending, both are virgins. Each other's first love.

Theme: Even when life puts you in a tough spot, you can still make the best of it.