Bottle-Fed Fortune-Telling: Give It a Try

[Preorder: The Supernatural Novel "Stop Pretending, I Can Hear Everything". Blurb below. If you're interested, please add it to your preorders~]

Tao Zhiyao is a famous entertainer, famous mostly because scandals about him are everywhere.

Just as he was preparing to quit showbiz and leave this mess behind, the deity of the Wuxian lineage he had inherited suddenly awoke from its slumber.

And immediately started wailing: I want a gorgeous, grand, beautiful shrine!

Tao Zhiyao looked at the deity throwing a tantrum, silently rummaged through the last remaining cardboard box in the house, and took out a... baby bottle?

Deity: "How is this beautiful?"

Tao Zhiyao pointed at the bottle, tracing a line from top to bottom: "Pointed roof, column-shaped body. What do you call that?"

The deity looked utterly baffled. "What?"

Tao Zhiyao replied with a straight face: "Gothic architecture, European-style open-plan mansion!"

Deity: ...

☆

Later, Tao Zhiyao met Xiao Wenzhai on a film set.

The award-winning actor, known to outsiders as gentle on the surface but cold inside, was covered in black curse marks. His shirt was soaked, and he sat in a corner, staring at Tao Zhiyao with red-rimmed eyes.

Tao Zhiyao shoved a baby bottle into his mouth.

Xiao Wenzhai: ?

Tao Zhiyao: "Professional nanny, expert exorcist. 180 per session, 998 for a monthly plan. Sir, would you like a membership card?"

Xiao Wenzhai: ...

☆

Fans noticed that, at some point, major directors, A-list stars, and even rookie idols across the entertainment industry had all started carrying... baby bottles?

Was this some new fashion trend, the nanny-and-daddy look?

After making inquiries, they were stunned by the answer.

Some said Tao Zhiyao had given them as gifts, others said they were blessings from Tao Zhiyao, and the most outrageous claimed they were gifts of grace from Tao Zhiyao.

Fans: Is the mental state of the entertainment industry really this bad?

Later, they noticed that Xiao Wenzhai had started carrying a baby bottle too.

"Mr. Xiao, is your baby bottle also a gift from Tao Zhiyao?"

Xiao Wenzhai looked at the camera, silently glanced down at the miniature baby bottle he carried with him, and calmly replied,

"Oh, this is a token of our love."

Fans: ???

(1) A cool, refined, slightly withdrawn award-winning actor gong x a sunny, carefree little fox shou

(2) Half plot, half romance. No angst at all, just funny, silly sweetness.

(3) Gong dotes on shou, 1v1, each other's first love, HE

[Preorder: "Stop Pretending, I Can Hear Everything"]

Xi Bai is a handsome male university student.

Xi Bai has a secret: he can hear ghosts' inner thoughts.

One day, a new roommate moved into his place. As Xi Bai brushed past him, he heard him say, "Mm, it's him."

Xi Bai turned around, but the other man hadn't said a word.

Xi Bai: ?

After this happened several more times, Xi Bai was confused. His roommate was clearly human.

☆

Xi Bai used his mind-reading ability to help many wronged ghosts. He thought his good deeds would earn him a long life, but on his twentieth birthday, someone claiming to be the Ghost King entered his dream...

The Ghost King said, "Your allotted years are up. Come with me to the underworld."

Xi Bai heard something else in his words. He blinked. "What did you just say you were worried I might see through?"

Ghost King: ... (Woc, can he hear my thoughts? Will he find out that he hasn't reached the end of his life and I'm lying to him?)

Xi Bai: "? You lied to me!"

Ghost King: !! (He really can hear me. Could he also know that I like him?)

Xi Bai: "You like me too?!"

Xi Bai woke up, and the Ghost King ran away. But whenever he closed his eyes, all he could see was that handsome Ghost King, face bright red, fleeing in a panic on a cloud of black smoke.

☆

Xi Bai naturally had no interest in the Ghost King's "confession of love."

He didn't want to date a ghost, and he wasn't ready to die either.

Before long, Xi Bai fell in love with his handsome, wealthy new roommate. Everything was perfectly normal, until one day, as he lay in his boyfriend's arms, he heard a thought mixed in with the sound of his heartbeat:

"Has he still not realized I'm the Ghost King?"

Xi Bai looked up: ?

His boyfriend, Gu Cheng, noticed his gaze and bent down tenderly. "Are you hungry? Should I make us something to eat?"

Xi Bai narrowed his eyes.

Stop pretending, I can hear everything!

1. Sunny, cute, mischievous ghost shou x possessive, big-bad-wolf Ghost King gong

2. A fun, adorable sweet romance, not a complicated, long story

3. Xi Bai (shou) x Gu Cheng (gong), each other's first love, HE

Theme: Stay hopeful about life, and good luck will always find you.