A Guide to Running a Nonhuman Shopping Street

After graduating from college, Yu Shuangjian returned to her mother's old home and inherited a commercial street. The street was remote and run-down, with no customers and no shops. Yu Shuangjian cleared the roads, renovated the storefronts, and planted flowers and trees, hoping to attract shopkeepers. On the first day, a bedraggled merperson arrived with a large bag of plump, pink-tinged pearls, begging Yu Shuangjian to help sell them. On the second day, a ginseng spirit who sold whiskers to support his family, and was nearly bald, clung to Yu Shuangjian's leg and wept, begging her to take him in. On the third day, a fox spirit from the mountains came by and asked Yu Shuangjian to help find her son, who had been abducted by humans. In the age of declining magic, spirits, demons, and ghosts have been shut away in the mountains and forests, and are nearly extinct. One day, a human came to the Realm of Mountains and Seas, put up the old sign of a dilapidated place, rallied a hundred demons, and opened a commercial street for nonhumans. Yu Shuangjian: