Fuyou is a cultivation prodigy born with a spiritual body. But she's timid and cowardly: she cries when she sees monsters, her hands shake whenever she fights, and she faints at the sight of blood. Once she faints, she loses consciousness and attacks everyone indiscriminately.
This has left her whole family at their wits' end, because no one can beat her.
Her father said, "We've found you a job. I'm begging you, go cause trouble somewhere else."
Fuyou left reluctantly, only to find that she'd been sent to the Bureau of the Dead.
It's a mysterious place that moves between the worlds of the living and the dead, and between order and chaos. They say the job means dealing with immortals, spirits, and ghosts every day.
Fuyou was scared. Fuyou made a run for it.
But just as she escaped, a pair of hands soft as warm jade scooped her back up.
The person who caught her was none other than Sui Yu, the famous head of the Bureau of the Dead.
He had smiling, flirtatious eyes, and was considerate yet distant.
He shielded her from baleful spirits, held her close when vengeful ghosts roared, and, knowing she was afraid of the dark, even broke off a branch to use as a lamp. He protected her as they walked together along the Road of Asura.
Fuyou knew he was a fickle womanizer, but she still couldn't help falling for him.
On the night their feelings came to fruition, their passion had barely subsided.
She woke and went looking for him, only to see beneath the moonlight...
"Sui Yu" standing in a pool of blood, surrounded by the corpses of the beings he'd saved that day.
He looked back at her, his smile wicked and nothing like the tenderness he had shown before.
"Are you scared, little Fuyou?"
"But what can I do? Sui Yu and I share one soul and one body. The one who had you wasn't him."
"It was me, Shen Que."
*Blurb written and screenshot on 2025/08/18
*First published on Jinjiang Literature City. Writing is hard work, so please support the official release.
Theme: When you can never become the person you wish you were...
