Another Year Waiting for Our Souls to Return

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[Next novel: The Foolish International Student Is Pregnant with the British Duke's Baby, an innocent, straightforward fool x a scheming top]

01

A mysterious new bookstore opens in Hangzhou, and celebrities from every walk of life come to its opening celebration.

Halfway through the ceremony, the bookstore suddenly loses power.

When the lights come back on, one guest is found dead on the floor, stabbed eight times.

Each of the other eight people present could be the killer.

To prove their innocence, everyone must choose a book from the store.

The answer is hidden in these eight books.

02

Chu Wuxiang, the bookstore owner, raised an army and rebelled eight hundred years ago, only to die by his own younger brother's arrow.

After eight hundred years, his fragmented soul finally puts itself back together and revives. Chu Wuxiang opens a bookstore in Hangzhou, where a murder soon takes place.

Forced to track down the real killer, he discovers that all the suspects are reincarnations of people he knew eight hundred years ago.

Chu Wuxiang: "..."

In the middle of the night, he sits up: What's wrong with you people? This is a reunion of old acquaintances?

No one gathers the bones across ten thousand miles, yet here in the human world, there are still souls left uncalled home.

Young general who bends automatically x charming, universally adored crown prince who is pursued

[Reading Guide]

1. Modern setting, 1v1 happy ending.

2. All criticism is welcome.

3. This is not an infinite-flow story or a transmigration-into-a-book story.

4. The books featured include Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, The Peony Pavilion, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, Shuo Yuan, The Book of Songs, and The Songs of Chu.

[Next novel: The Sickly Beauty Transmigrates into a Dominant Top and Is Forced into a Relationship]

System: Good news, you've transmigrated into a book and become a dominant top.

Jian Hanzhi: What's a dominant top?

System: Someone who has it all: money, looks, brains, and an enormous dick. A domineering CEO and a powerful top.

Jian Hanzhi coughs up blood and asks: Then what's the bad news?

System: Bad news, you transmigrated in your own body. You have nothing: no money, no connections, and no six-foot-three, double-door-fridge physique. You don't have the constitution of a dominant top, only the illness.

For example

When he's thirsty, Jian Hanzhi wants milk.

System: No way. Dominant tops are lactose intolerant.

When it's cold, Jian Hanzhi takes out a coat.

System: You can't. Dominant tops aren't cold, and can only wear one layer.

When he catches a cold, Jian Hanzhi boils water for himself.

System: No, no, no! Absolutely not. Dominant tops only drink iced Americanos.

Jian Hanzhi gets fed up: What happens if I refuse to be a dominant top?

System: Instant death.

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As the world's number one dominant top, Xie Siliang believes there's no problem he can't solve.

But lately, he's run into some trouble.

There's a sickly green-tea brat who gets by on his looks and puts on an act in front of him every day.

For example

On a rainy day, Jian Hanzhi wears only a thin shirt and faints outside his apartment building.

Xie Siliang sneers: What a clumsy trick. Such a twisted mind.

Xie Siliang carries him home and gives him water and medicine, but Jian Hanzhi will only drink bottled water that costs thirty yuan a bottle.

Xie Siliang: So picky. Are you going to die if you don't drink this?

Jian Hanzhi: ...Don't you drink the same stuff?

Xie Siliang has an epiphany

So this is his way of catering to my tastes.

Fine. As long as he's willing to put in the effort for me.

Not long afterward, Jian Hanzhi realizes that Xie Siliang seems to have gotten the wrong idea about him.

After thinking it over, he decides to warn Xie Siliang in advance: I won't be the bottom. Being the bottom would kill me. Don't think about taking things any further.

Xie Siliang chooses to go deaf: Jian Hanzhi wants to be the bottom. If he doesn't, he'll die. He wants to take things further.

Forceful pursuit, here we go!

[Overpowered but sickly beauty bottom x stubborn, twisted, possessive top]

Written on May 14, 2024.

Theme: No one can go a single day without a book.