After the God of Poverty Fell in Love at First Sight with the Richest Man

Qu Lihuo, the God of Poverty who governs poverty in the Celestial Realm, is sent by the Jade Emperor to the mortal world to find the Nine-Turn Ledger, a book that divides people into wealth classes and allocates their fortunes accordingly. For the first time, this sheltered little immortal steps into the bustling, worldly realm of humankind.

After receiving his assignment, Qu Lihuo diligently works at it every day, eager to finish and return to the Celestial Realm to report back. But with so much of his divine power sealed away, he makes no progress at all, and ends up provoking someone he really should not have.

Born as a god of ill fortune, Qu Lihuo bears too much resentment and darkness. He never imagined that, over the course of his long life, he would meet so many different people, with souls that were either bright or shadowed, colors he had never seen before.

After five hundred years of being kept at a distance, the god experiences being loved for the first time. He also learns what it feels like to be tightly entangled with someone, unable to break free.

The lofty, unapproachable head of a powerful wealthy family, a man of the upper crust, never imagined that such a bright, dazzling star could appear in his dull, endless nights.

Meng Qingyu knows he is no good person, just a vicious wolf dressed in civilized finery. So he resorts to every means, stopping at nothing to ensnare a star who was never meant to be his.

“Southern Bright Flame, only a fire this pure and burning deserves to be your name. From now on, you are only my A Li.”

“I know the stars do not belong to me. But for one brief moment, I was bathed in starlight, and from then on, I surrendered to him.”

Bonus Scene 1:

Faced with the man's confession, Qu Lihuo firmly rejects him: “I'm the God of Poverty. Anyone who comes near me will end up penniless.”

The man only smiles, a meaning he cannot hide in his eyes. “That's all right. I'm the richest man in the world.”

Bonus Scene 2:

Watching someone persistently pester Qu Lihuo, his friend grows indignant. “I've heard people say Mr. Meng is always so refined and courteous in public. Surely pestering him like this will damage your reputation?”

Meng Qingyu merely smiles, utterly unconcerned, a barely restrained madness in his eyes. “You said it yourself, that's how I am in public. Right now I'm talking to my own wife. At most, you could call it asking my wife to come home.”

Reader's Guide:

1. Pairing: an otherworldly, sheltered immortal top (Qu Lihuo) × a refined yet wicked, calculating, possessive, powerful bottom (Meng Qingyu).

2. The road is bumpy, but at heart this is a sweet little romance.

Coming Soon: After a Cat Gets Bound to a Gacha Photography System

Qiao Yan is a lazy photographer who has always lived by the motto, “As long as I still have money to spend, I absolutely will not work.” He has managed to laze his way through the fiercely competitive photography world. But his fans can't bear to watch him keep slacking off, worried he'll starve to death at home one day, so they nag him every day to go out and work. Their overwhelming conviction gets a response from the heavens.

And so

One day, Qiao Yan wakes up to find himself forcibly bound to a photography gacha System called “Marvelous Transformation.”

According to the System's missions, he has to draw a transformation card every so often, put on the designated outfit, and take pictures of various people or things. To make matters worse, the System's missions can arrive at any time, leaving Qiao Yan with no way to complain when he's forced out of bed in the middle of the night to work.

He could put up with all that, but

Why does not working mean his money gets docked at double the rate?!

Qiao Yan grits his teeth in frustration.

The 996 System silently sheds a tear of sympathy for him. “It can't be helped... Maybe it's to stop you from slacking off.”

To finish his missions as soon as possible and earn enough to meet the amount his fans set as “enough to keep him from starving even if he doesn't work,” Qiao Yan works hard without complaint. He even deliberately chooses difficult subjects worth more points, never expecting this to land him in trouble with someone he really shouldn't have crossed.

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Everyone knows that the head of the Li Group despises being photographed. The Li family is so powerful and influential that photos of its leader have almost never appeared in upper-class circles or on social media.

As a pure-blood vampire, Li Jinan is not afraid of sunlight, but he absolutely loathes being photographed. He has always thought photography was a foolish human way of clinging to time because their lives are too short.

Anyone who so much as raised a camera at him would find themselves easily dealt with the very next day, in their own circles.

Unreasonable and utterly cold-blooded.

But all his views and methods were turned upside down by the arrival of one person.

Much later, people abandoned their old assumptions and reached a new conclusion: it wasn't that Mr. Li disliked being photographed. The right to photograph him belonged solely to his partner.

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Bonus Scene:

With a certain vampire closing in on him at every turn, Qiao Yan trembles as he promises, “I absolutely won't take your picture again! I swear!”

But the other man's brow furrows, his voice cold and dangerous, possessiveness wrapping tightly around Qiao Yan. “If you won't photograph me, who are you planning to photograph? That human from before?”

Qiao Yan: “...Didn't you say you don't like being photographed?”

Li Jinan evades the question. “You may only photograph me.”

Theme: Become a starlight that never falls, even when surrounded by darkness.