Asking the Ghosts

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Mei Jiu has been strange ever since she was born.

Nothing in her hands ever stays dead.

Whether it's a chicken with its neck broken or a young general gravely injured, whether she holds them or buries them, before long, they come back to life.

Some say she is an immortal beyond the Three Realms, while others call her a wicked soul struck from the King of Hell's register.

Mei Jiu doesn't care. Tales of gods and ghosts have been passed down since ancient times, but nobody has ever truly seen them. Who can say what's real?

Until she meets a ghost cultivator.

Only then does Mei Jiu learn that she was born not to kill people, but to slay ghosts.

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As a ghost cultivator, Wang Yan is exceptionally handsome, though his eyes are bewitching. Beneath one eye is a bright red mole, like a tear of blood.

He has come from the capital to find someone who can make him disappear.

He teaches her, protects her, and helps her recall the abilities she once had.

But he never imagined that once she remembered everything, the first thing she would do would be to wind a red thread around his neck and pull him close.

"Heh, I knew you'd come see me again, you coward."

Warnings:

1. Happy ending, a love-hate relationship.

2. Short story, plot-focused.

[Synopsis archived on 2022.03.05]

My Husband and I Were Made for Each Other

[Flirtatious, innocent heroine x morally upright but dark-hearted hero]

Cui Lanyin is married. Her husband, the eldest young master Xiao Lin, is gentle and proper.

But he's hard to get close to, and terribly boring.

With no one to confide in, she writes down her thoughts in a notebook to pass the time.

Strangely enough, every "wish" she writes down comes true.

Gradually, Lanyin gets bolder and starts writing all sorts of nonsense.

My dear's hands are jade-white and slender. If only I could touch them...

My dear's waist is firm and lean. If only I could hold him...

Though none of these wishes come true, her husband's gaze grows darker and more terrifying by the day, as if he wants to devour her.

Lanyin: ...?

Interesting.

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Xiao Lin is the eldest young master of the Xiao family, upright and proper, and strict with himself.

He hears that Cui Lanyin has feelings for someone else, and restrains himself from getting close to her.

Later, he finds a notebook.

At first, it's fairly ordinary, but the entries grow more and more bizarre. Then one day, she boldly writes: "...My dear dragged me behind the artificial hill. I tried to run, but he grabbed me firmly and kissed me..."

At a banquet one day, busybodies crane their necks, eager to see the commotion when old flames meet again. But Cui Lanyin is nowhere to be found.

Someone claims they saw her disappear behind the artificial hill.

[Scene 1]

One day, Xiao Lin is nearly drugged.

Cui Lanyin is summoned to his room, where she finds the eldest young master holding an empty bowl. He tells her:

"Either stay and help me... or lock the door and let me suffer the consequences alone."

Cui Lanyin decisively locks the door, from the inside.

[Scene 2]

Lanyin has a secret:

The usually refined and courteous eldest young master is wonderful, but she likes it even more when she brings out the side of him nobody else knows.

Especially when he makes her answer, as she sobs helplessly, whether she likes his hands or her dear's better, and whether his waist or her dear's is better...

Xiao Lin has a secret:

He has never been a good person, especially not to Cui Lanyin, the mischievous young woman who knows exactly how to stir people's hearts.

Whenever she smiles at another man, he wants to lock her away, so that year after year she can look only at him and smile only at him.

If she won't obey, he'll teach her to.

He knows that thinking and acting this way is wrong. Fortunately, Lanyin... seems to enjoy it?

Theme: Stay true to yourself, and never forget where you started