- Clear-hearted, moon-bright young immortal x sharp-tongued, scatterbrained commentator
Walk the night roads often enough, and sooner or later you'll meet a ghost.
At one in the morning, after finishing her experiment, Xie Yunhuan hopped on her little electric scooter and headed home. Eyes fixed ahead, mind kept calm, she pretended not to notice the shadowy figures in the alley.
Until her scooter crashed into a "person."
She tried to drive through him three times, but couldn't. Her calm expression finally cracked. Before Xie Yunhuan could scream, the man spoke, though his voice was terribly weak:
"...Miss, we have no grudge between us. Surely you don't have to run me over to death."
Trembling, Xie Yunhuan watched the male ghost climb to his feet. A vicious wound split his waist and abdomen. He only pressed a hand lightly against it, yet a smile played on his face. Beneath the moonlight, his jade-like features seemed almost bewitching.
Were all male ghosts this handsome?
Smiling, he said, "I never expected to end up here. Please do me a favor, miss."
"W-why?"
Why should she help him? Why her? In myths and fairy tales alike, people who made deals with monsters never came to a good end.
Xie Yunhuan discreetly pinched her thigh. Stay sharp. Handsome ones are all fox spirits!
"In return," he said, lifting his eyes to her, his gaze as gentle as the spring night around them, "I'll help you catch ghosts."
Beyond the level plain's end lie spring hills, and the traveler is farther still, beyond those hills.
Theme: Carrying mountains and chasing the sun, all to behold the spring hills.
