There's a Gourmet Restaurant in the Book

Cheng Mengshu is a bookstore owner who enjoys staying home and cooking. He has yin-yang eyes and special abilities.

He runs an unprofitable bookstore in the old district. On slow days, he can sleep all day without a single customer walking in. To make ends meet, he takes commissions from the Underworld and the Special Cases Investigation Group.

No partnerships, only transactions! Money for goods, and nobody gets to make me work for free!

One night, a female ghost who wanted to get something for nothing barged into the bookstore and was beaten until black smoke poured from her body.

“I'm not a customer, so why are you making me work overtime?”

“If you can't pay, sign a ten-year contract selling yourself to me first.”

Later

Ghosts of all kinds came knocking. A bald ghost wanted to uncover the truth about his death; a child ghost wanted to find his mother; a deceased police officer wanted to retrieve something important; and a laboratory worker asked for help finding missing research materials...

Cheng Mengshu: “...Hey, I'm just an ordinary person with a few special abilities. Do you think I'm a turtle in a wishing well?”

Later still

After thwarting the Underworld's thousand-year plan to get things for free and successfully passing his tribulation, he returned to his original body. To help his beloved pass his own tribulation, Cheng Mengshu set his sights on the merit points these visitors brought him.

Cheng Mengshu: “Well... I suppose getting taken advantage of once in a while isn't so bad.”

Below is the upcoming unlimited-flow novel, Lighthouse Game

Taoist gong VS divine being shou

Zhang Xun is a Taoist with yin-yang eyes who has never seen a ghost, let alone caught one. Every day, he lives alone at his temple, burning incense, cleaning, doing laundry, cooking, farming, growing vegetables, and praying. He even has to sew his own clothes.

One day, he is suddenly drawn into Lighthouse Game and becomes an explorer, the kind who runs into ghosts every day.

Zhang Xun: “...”

Wow, that's my first time seeing a real ghost. Didn't Master say there were hardly any ghosts in the living world? I was supposed to have about as much chance of encountering one as winning the lottery. So why are they everywhere here?

Everyone who sees Zhang Xun for the first time thinks he's a con artist trying to freeload, because he has none of a Taoist's otherworldly grace. Most importantly, he is even more surprised to see ghosts than ordinary people are.

“Trying to scam people in a place like this? Don't you have a conscience?”

“Hey, fake Taoist, can you tell fortunes?”

Zhang Xun shakes his head and declares confidently, “Why bother telling fortunes? I decide my own fate!”

“Got it. Can't tell fortunes, and he's also a chuunibyou.”

“Then can you exorcise ghosts?”

Zhang Xun, who has never exorcised a ghost, draws his sword. “I... can try?”

Everyone stares blankly as Zhang Xun clutches his sword and runs down the street with a ghost chasing him.

“...”

The players all think this fake Taoist will die soon after entering the game. They never expected him not only to survive, but also to win over the game's top Boss.

Theme: The greatest pleasures in life are simple