The White Moonlight of the Lord of Strange Tales

One night, while walking his dog, Zhou Qingyu watched as it suddenly grew excited, wriggled free of its leash, and charged straight into the school he had once attended.

With no choice but to go after it, Zhou Qingyu entered the campus.

After picking up a strange note, everything began to change.

The paper listed several school rules and warned anyone who saw it that they had to follow them to the letter to stay alive.

Just as Zhou Qingyu was puzzling over it, he suddenly heard someone call his name.

He looked up and saw that someone had appeared in front of him without him noticing. The man was tall and straight-backed, and looked exactly like his boyfriend, Yan Shuo.

Yan Shuo said, "Don't be afraid. Stay with me, and I'll get you out of here."

Zhou Qingyu didn't move, because he remembered the first rule on the note: 1. Don't trust anyone you see. They may not be human.

And he clearly remembered that his boyfriend, Yan Shuo, had fallen to his death three years ago.

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At first, everyone thought Zhou Qingyu was good for nothing but a pretty face. He was always getting tangled up with ghosts and evil spirits, and after several close calls, he nearly died. He was unlucky to an absurd degree.

Zhou Qingyu was rather helpless about it too.

My ex-boyfriend, who's been dead for years, still resents me for what I did back then and wants to kill me. What should I do? Urgent, answers please.

All the ghosts and evil spirits, Zhou Qingyu included, believed that Yan Shuo kept trying to kill him because he hated him to the core.

Until...

When Zhou Qingyu was seriously injured, Yan Shuo held him in his arms as if he were something precious. The ghosts and evil spirits, who had once been terrifying and horrifying, cowered on the ground in panic, filled with fear and despair.

Only then did they realize that Zhou Qingyu wasn't the enemy the Lord of the Ghost Stories wanted revenge on. He was the first love, the moonlight in his heart, whom Yan Shuo had thought about for three years.

[Plot idea written in September 2023, screenshot saved]

[Please note:]

1. Romance and plot are split about evenly. There are elements of mystery-solving, and it's a little scary, but only mildly so.

2. The seme is a bit unhinged, and the uke has a bit of a tendency to attract everyone. At heart, this is a story about lovers who hurt and love each other, break up, and reunite.

Theme: Everyone should have a sense of responsibility in life