Twenty-Four Temples Behind the Red Gate

Note: This story has been heavily revised, mainly in the supporting characters' scenes. The main characters' relationship is unchanged.

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Where does life come from, and where does death lead?

Feng Jiayin doesn't know. She only knows that working nine to five every day, opening and closing the red door on time, and properly welcoming the visitors is what matters.

When the red door is closed, she welcomes passersby. Her place is a lively teahouse.

When the red door is open, she takes in lonely ghosts. Her place is a temporary refuge, far from the world.

People and ghosts alike are guests.

One day, a woman in ragged clothes came to the door, holding a notice. "Are you hiring?"

Feng Jiayin nodded. "Yes."

"Can I stay, then?"

Feng Jiayin said, "That's not a hiring notice. It's a missing-person notice."

"Missing person?"

"Yes. I'm looking for my family."

More than a hundred years passed. At last, Boss Feng, at the Twenty-Fourth Temple by the Red Gate, found her "family."

An alternate modern setting, with a melodramatic past-life romance. Boss Feng's quiet retirement routine, running a business and listening to people's stories. No horror elements.

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Synopsis:

The point of the beautiful, strong, and tragic heroine is in those three words: beautiful, strong, and tragic.

And when the beautiful, strong, and tragic heroine appears in a BE story, her tragic ending makes readers sigh with regret and lament that fate has been cruel to such a beauty.

To that end, TFW developed a vast full-immersion game System called "Chrono-Space Guardian," designed to let players enter all kinds of fictional worlds and change the BE endings of beautiful, strong, and tragic heroines firsthand.

After changing jobs eight times, Lin Yuanfeng stumbled into a new position: game tester.

Her job was to be the first to try out each instance in TFW's game System, "Chrono-Space Guardian."

After completing all the instance missions, she would receive 60 million dollars. She would also enjoy top-tier VIP service along the way.

Lin Yuanfeng wasn't interested in the money. She just wanted a thrill!

Only after playing did she realize how thrilling it really was!

Instance 1: A few stories about a scheming heroine who's biding her time.

Instance 2: Matching wits with a policewoman heroine and enjoying the thrill of a cat-and-mouse chase.

Instance 3: Pacifying the realm alongside a marquess. She becomes empress, I become her chancellor... All right, and I take on a little extra work at night.

Instance 4: Becoming the... dog of a fallen immortal sect leader? Why is there even a setting like this?

Instance 5: To be added.

Reading guide:

One-on-one romance. The heroine in every instance is the same person, and she will interact with Lin Yuanfeng in the real world. She won't truly appear until later.

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Theme: Savoring life's many experiences and pursuing the fulfillment of one's own worth