Cong Lan was once a single rain lily growing in a roadside flower bed, weak and helpless, but able to understand human speech. One day, he almost died beneath someone's shoe, but a schoolboy passing by saved him.
From then on, Cong Lan watched the boy ride past every day: white school uniform, black headphones, and the same lonely back, day after day.
Then one day, the boy stopped appearing. Year after year, Cong Lan waited for him, but he never came. Instead, Cong Lan turned into a human.
Cong Lan: The first thing I do as a human, of course, is repay my debt!
He just never expected that when they met again, he would end up behind bars.
In the interrogation room, Detective Captain Qin Yanzhou asked coldly, "Fraud? Are you even an adult?"
Cong Lan, a genuinely delicate flower trembling in the wind: "I didn't! I haven't! I-I'm an adult... right?"
How old do humans have to be to count as adults, anyway? QAQ
Qin Yanzhou: "Turning yourself in?"
Cong Lan shook his head with utmost seriousness. "I'm here to repay you. You saved me, so I can... I can..."
Qin Yanzhou raised his eyes, his gaze icy. "I advise you to come clean."
"...Give myself to you!"
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Later, Qin Yanzhou, who had taken him home on a whim of compassion, sat in the living room flipping through Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio and said casually, "The way you spirits repay a debt seems to be by giving yourselves to the person, doesn't it?"
Beside him, Cong Lan was typing away at his graduate thesis, eyes fixed on the screen without blinking. "That was in the old days. Humans and spirits can't reproduce together. New era, new ideas. You should read more and get with the..."
Qin Yanzhou tossed aside his book and tackled him onto the sofa.
"I think we need to learn from our ancestors' fine traditions."
☆ Lighthearted and healing, with a touch of suspense and the supernatural. An alternate modern setting with Eastern fantasy, spirits, and monsters.
☆ Also known as The Modern-Day Reemployment of Gods, Spirits, and Monsters and A Special Constable, But Also a Spirit
A sweet, dazed flower spirit bottom and a chaste-then-can't-resist top. They save each other.
Theme: Good deeds are rewarded.
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