After the Honest Straight Man Angers a Young Man from Miaojiang

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Fang Mo is a hopelessly spineless straight man. At death’s door, he’s plagued by a terminal illness, unable to live and unable to die.

With nowhere else to turn, he heads to Miaojiang in search of a chance at survival. But he has the worst luck: he’s swindled out of his travel money, his phone is stolen, and he nearly dies in a miasma-filled forest near a Miao village.

Fortunately, fate hasn’t given up on him. A gentle, smiling young man rescues him.

The young man is called Yan Nanchun. He finds doctors and medicine for Fang Mo and takes care of him in every way. He’s beyond reproach.

Fang Mo can’t help thinking that he’s a really good person, though there’s something strange about the way he looks at him.

Once Fang Mo’s health improves and he wants to go home for treatment, the darkness and possessiveness hidden beneath the young man’s warmth are laid bare.

The night rain falls hard as miasma swirls.

The young man coils around him like a spirit snake, gripping his wrist tightly as he strokes the vermilion mark on Fang Mo’s waist, claiming him with frenzied possessiveness.

His voice is hoarse, a deep flame burning in his eyes.

“Brother A-Mo, if I can’t keep your heart, I still have other ways.”

“If the hunters in the village catch a bird that won’t obey, they chain it up with silver and break its wings.

“So… would you rather be locked up, or have your legs broken?”

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There has never been a spring in Yan Nanchun’s life.

He was born in the dead of winter, when an unusually heavy snowfall blanketed the village. His mother was unmarried when she became pregnant, and died soon after giving birth to him. From childhood, his people saw him as an ill omen and a monster, and everyone feared and shunned him.

His people despised him and named him “Nanchun,” meaning “spring comes late.” Yet because of his unusual fate, they had no choice but to raise him and train him to protect the village.

A high position, but all alone. His heart filled with loneliness, every year cold and desolate. Then Fang Mo stepped into his endless winter.

So how could he possibly let this one bit of warmth escape?

He grabs the ankle of the man trying to flee and gives it a little tug, pulling him back into his arms.

“Brother A-Mo, you received my Heartbound Gu. You can’t leave without giving me something in return, can you?

“I saved your life, so… leave yourself with me. Don’t run.

“Whether you hide in the Ten Thousand Mountains or disappear beyond the horizon, I can find you, and then… take you home.

“But now, it’s time to settle the interest on all the trouble I went through to find you.”

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With the spirit snake Niannian wrapped around his wrist and a box of sweets in his pocket, Yan Nanchun sticks close to Fang Mo.

Fang Mo sighs helplessly. “What exactly do you want?”

The young man bites into a piece of candy and kisses him possessively.

“Don’t die. Don’t run away. Don’t leave me.”

“Brother A-Mo, in this life, our hearts will stay together. We’ll never betray each other.”

A sweet-faced, cold-hearted young man from Miaojiang × an unlucky, straight office worker

1. A nontraditional take on my kind of coercive romance. Love comes before coercion. Is it even really coercion?

2. A puppy top is still a top, and a mad-dog top is still a top. This honest straight man is getting thoroughly devoured.

3. They choose each other and save each other. Happy ending, with a little tragic romance.

4. A partly fictional setting, with a few details based on research. This is entirely my own take on a Miao village, possibly mixed with features of other ethnic minorities. Think of it as a village where many peoples live together and practice Gu magic.

5. The bottom has idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, which is cured by Gu insects. He’s sickly for part of the story, with a little more of that later on.

Also coming soon: The Fox Spirit Has Come of Age, and the Scholar Ascends to Immortality

Lu Qingxuan is a teacher who works hard, diligently and conscientiously, doing his job properly.

One day, he brings home a man with long, ink-black hair who can run a household and cook as well as anyone.

The man is devastatingly handsome. Lu Qingxuan has spent his whole life reading books, but even he can’t find the words to describe him. Slender shoulders, a narrow waist, a pert backside: he’s seductive and bewitching, enough to steal anyone’s soul with a single glance.

Everyone gossips: Could the man Teacher Lu brought home be a fox spirit?

Lu Qingxuan doesn’t believe in gods or ghosts. He chases the gossips out with a broom. “If I say he’s human, then he’s human.”

As it turns out… the man is a fox spirit, a real one, complete with ears and a tail. His fluffy red tail has just a touch of white at the tip, and it’s pretty warm when draped over you.

For a moment, Lu Qingxuan thinks he’s about to play a white-faced scholar in a Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio story.

A plain and unremarkable love story: Lu Qingxuan lies beside the fox spirit, thinking about that as he pets the man’s tail, completely unaware that the man’s face is going red under the covers.

That same year, the cultivation sect hunting the little fox finds them. A foul-mouthed Taoist bursts in to capture the demon, and Lu Qingxuan is injured while protecting the little fox. Because he has an exceptionally good spiritual root, he is taken back to the sect as well.

Well, there goes a teacher who only wanted to educate children. Now he’s been forced to join an immortal sect.

The students: ????

“Did Teacher ascend to immortality?”

He cuts his ties with the mortal world and devotes himself to cultivation. Lu Qingxuan’s progress is like a rocket, and while still young, he rises to the top ranks of the cultivator charts and earns the admiration of the masses.

No one would guess that this cultivation prodigy’s favorite pastime is using his horsetail whisk to tease a fox in the back mountains and pet his fluffy tail.

Beautiful Qingqiu red fox with ancient bloodline, bottom × bookish top who wanted to teach but was forced to cultivate

Beautiful bottom × Mary Sue top

1. The bottom is an innocent, alluring beauty, a long-haired little fox. At first, he’s just transformed and knows nothing about the world, but he isn’t stupid. He’s clever and a little scheming, not weak, and they’re evenly matched.

2. The top has a powerful golden finger and a domineering-protagonist plotline. His cultivation rockets upward, and he is favored by the Heavenly Dao.

3. The story involves past and present lives, with a little heartbreak in that part.

4. Overall, it’s a cute, fluffy, sweet story. The cultivation elements aren’t too prominent.

5. A standard cultivation-world setting.

6. The top and bottom are evenly matched. The top says one thing but means another, and the bottom has mild skin hunger and likes being petted.

Theme: Spring lies in the south; in life and death, we are bound together