A Short-Lived Calamity Star with an Immortal Soul

(Complete, happy ending) (Ensemble cast! The male lead's identity is revealed later!)

A fearless ghost queen who only wants to become an immortal x a short-lived, ill-fated man who meekly lets her drink his blood

Falling in love with this ghost is my fate

“I want him to live a long life, turn danger into safety, and grow old together with the one he loves.”

Jiang Tan has lived for eight hundred years and slept for three hundred. She is the one and only ghost queen among the four realms.

But she is unlucky. Just after climbing out of her coffin, she meets a short-lived man named Ji Qinglin.

The man was born with an extremely weak fate, making him irresistible to demons and ghosts. If nothing unexpected happens, he is also a disaster star of the kind seen once in a thousand years. He probably doesn't have many years left to live.

They should have had nothing to do with each other, but Jiang Tan was greedy and accidentally drank a little of the boy's blood.

Who could have guessed that a sip of blood would forge a pact? She can't drive him away or kill him.

Well, that's that. From then on, Jiang Tan is stuck with this short-lived man. No demon or ghost other than her is allowed to bully her walking blood supply.

Everyone says he's doomed to die young and wants him sacrificed. Jiang Tan refuses to let them.

This boy is under her protection. Whether he lives or dies, she gets the final say!

*With the soul of Xuanming, a divine treasure is known; the man had not been heard of even at twenty., Li Zhi, Song dynasty, Two Poems on a Mirror Screen, No. 2

Content warnings: This isn't a traditional cultivation novel, and it's not serious drama. It occasionally takes a goofy turn.

(PS: Aside from the poem mentioned in the author's note in Chapter 4, every other quoted poem or line was made up by the author.)

Reader's guide:

1. The four realms are the Human Realm, the Netherworld, the Demon Realm, and the Immortal Realm.

2. Cultivation ranks in the Human Realm: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, and Spirit Transformation.

Ghost ranks: Chi, Ba, Xiao, Kui

Demon ranks: Soldier, General, Marshal, King

Immortal ranks: Unsaid, Unyielding, Unconceding (only those at the Unsaid rank may be called true immortals)

4. The story has a mountain of author-created lore. Don't argue over it. Synopsis screenshot taken, February 15, 2024.

Theme: Living well matters more than anything.