I Subdued Every Urban Legend to Write My Novel

Ying Wusheng transmigrates into a modern urban horror novel and becomes a writer of supernatural folk-tale fiction.

In the original story, she is an author whose books sell poorly and whose writing is often called ugly and padded. Determined to redeem herself, the original host decides to gather material at a haunted location, but accidentally enters a forbidden area, triggers a taboo, and dies horribly, nearly causing a total-party-wipe ending.

Ying Wusheng's verdict: The folk scholar's party-wipe engine character setting has proved entirely accurate.

After transmigrating, she is bound to a [Tales of the Strange Novelist] System.

The System tells her that she needs to complete its assigned tasks. Completing them will earn her corresponding skill points to improve her writing.

System: Only when your tales of the strange have built up enough popularity can I send you back to your original world.

Ying Wusheng readily agrees. But when she opens the System, she discovers...

Aren't these tasks all a little too extreme?

[Novice task: Play Bloody Mary in front of a mirror at midnight.]

[Novice task: Spend one night in a haunted house.]

[Beginner task: Explore the abandoned Shuangcheng Garage (current progress: 0).]

[Intermediate task: Explore a haunted village and uncover the ancestral hall's secret (current progress: 0).]

After Ying Wusheng painstakingly completes the tasks, her writing ability soars.

She works her nightmarish paranormal-investigation experiences into her stories, and her novels become an instant sensation.

Years later, on the awards stage, the host asks Ying Wusheng how she manages to write stories that are so chilling and horrifying, yet so thought-provoking.

Ying Wusheng says quietly, "...Actually, would you believe me if I said all of this really happened to me?"

Host (stiffly): "..."

The audience falls completely silent.

Host: "Hahaha... Teacher Ying really is a master of tales of the strange. You almost scared me there!"

Ying Wusheng: "..."

Theme: Love your authentic self