I’m Actually Panicking Because My Heart Doesn’t Beat

When Guan Xiaoxuan opened her eyes, she found herself lying in a morgue. She had no heartbeat or pulse, and her whole body was cold. Motionless corpses lay all around her. Clutching her own body bag, Guan Xiaoxuan was completely bewildered.

After escaping the morgue, Guan Xiaoxuan discovered that although she had no heartbeat, everything else seemed normal. She decided to hide her identity and pretend she was still alive, then take things one step at a time.

But strange events kept piling up. On her first day of school, she encountered a faceless classmate. A little boy kept suddenly appearing at the orphanage. Bus 444 wandered the streets every rainy night. A woman in red roamed outside her window...

Excuse me, I live on the seventeenth floor!

Every time something like that happened, Guan Xiaoxuan frantically told herself: I didn't see anything. I didn't hear anything. Please, Heaven, let me live!

After cowering for long enough, Guan Xiaoxuan suddenly realized one day that these eerie things weren't actually all that scary.

Xing Tianqing, from the Special Incident Investigation Bureau, had been having a hard time lately. As a team leader at the Bureau of the Eerie, she often encountered all kinds of strange happenings. But ever since Guan Xiaoxuan became her neighbor, her workload had kept growing.

At first, Xing Tianqing simply thought Guan Xiaoxuan had a crush on her. She felt especially protective of the lonely, helpless girl, but later discovered that more and more secrets surrounded Guan Xiaoxuan.

Guan Xiaoxuan had crawled out of a pile of living corpses and become the Gu of the Red Maiden.

With no help in sight, she rescued more than twenty people from a faceless classmate.

The little boy in the orphanage, full of murderous resentment after a tragic death, was unusually docile around Guan Xiaoxuan.

When the bizarre city bus 444 appeared again after wandering through the rain, it quietly called Guan Xiaoxuan “Master.”

Even the woman in red, a ghost that had given the Bureau of the Eerie a headache, began hiding in Guan Xiaoxuan's shadow. She stayed by her side every day, acting as both shadow and bodyguard.

Xing Tianqing fell into deep thought. She couldn't understand what kind of person her neighbor really was.

Reading notes and content warnings:

1. One hundred chapters are written in advance. 50% of the novel is protected against piracy.

2. This novel includes Lovecraftian elements, a main god, mysterious events, the inner and outer worlds, a Special Incident Investigation Bureau, and all kinds of supernatural lore, along with an eccentric heroine and her demon and ghost friends. (P.S. This is not a women-only world. There are definitely men, including a father: a forty-something adult male, male in both sex and gender. If you want a women-only world, try Miss Mermaid. All the men are dead in that one.)

3. The heroine plays dumb while hiding her strength, with several layers of secret identities. She might not even reveal them by the end.

4. One-on-one romance, mutual pursuit, two strong leads, and a team-up monster-fighting and leveling-up plot.

5. Illustrator: Yi Yanbai

Take a look at the upcoming novel: My Wife from the Phone Came Looking for Me

One day, Qi Ying discovered a virtual pet app on her phone. The game's virtual protagonist, Xing Xiao Chu, was a poor little thing. Her scumbag father abused her and made her quit school, then tried to marry the eighteen-year-old Omega off to an old Alpha to carry on his family line. Unwilling to accept this, Xing Xiao Chu ran away and hid beneath a wall, crying in the rain.

Following the game's setup, Qi Ying brought her home and devoted herself to raising Xing Xiao Chu. It was only a nurturing game, after all, and she was curious about what kind of person Xing Xiao Chu would grow into. So Qi Ying took her to the doctor, shared meals with her, and cared for her wholeheartedly. The words she said most often were, “Your mother asked me to take care of you.”

Xing Xiao Chu worried that Qi Ying only treated her well because of her mother. But one day, she accidentally discovered that Qi Ying became aroused by her pheromones. Only then did Xing Xiao Chu realize there was another way she could stay by Qi Ying's side.

That night, Xing Xiao Chu washed herself clean and climbed into Qi Ying's bed.

The paper-doll character Qi Ying had raised for so long suddenly disappeared.

But not long afterward, on a rainy night, Qi Ying found a drenched young woman squatting outside her door.

Xing Xiao Chu looked up, ran over, and threw herself into Qi Ying's arms.

Trembling and crying, Xing Xiao Chu clung tightly to Qi Ying and asked, “Big sister, where is this? I'm so scared...”

Qi Ying: ...

It seemed the paper-doll wife she'd raised had come out of her phone to find her.

Premise: Superstition is not the answer.