The Artist Keeps Wandering Into Crime Scenes

Main story complete. New to Dafeng, Li Yanjing eagerly barged into a haunted house, clutching the life-saving money she’d earned through strong-arming people into buying her paintings. Are ghosts really scarier than being poor? Liu Ziang, her landlord, has spent three years studying for the civil service exam and is still trying to pass. Ghosts are scary, poverty is scarier, but the trouble you bring is the scariest of all. In short, the stingy exam whiz rented the place to a penniless painter to help with household expenses. But when he came to collect the rent for the first time, there were barely a few taels of silver in sight, but several lives had already been lost: His tenant had just caught the fake exorcist known as the Face-Burning Ghost, and then she got caught up in another bizarre case involving folk customs… Li Yanjing, for her part, said: Why solve cases? She was a bona fide painter, meant to make a living with her paintbrush… What, fifty taels? I can solve it. I’ll definitely solve this case! Liu Ziang, following behind to protect her, remained expressionless. If you’re going to solve the case, fine, but can you do it without dragging other people into it? Li Yanjing: Come on, let me paint you. Once I’m dead, my paintings will be worth a fortune! Liu Ziang finally snapped. “Li Yanjing, if you keep saying whatever comes into your head, I absolutely will stop looking after you!” Li Yanjing burst out laughing, went out, and continued to unleash her Conan-like powers at random, stumbling into crime scenes of all kinds… Liu Ziang had probably gotten so used to looking after Li Yanjing that he was convinced she’d grow from a little troublemaker into an old one, while he’d go from being a little miser to an old miser with her at his side. Until one day, Liu Ziang discovered that Li Yanjing’s biggest problem had something to do with him… ▲Fun fact: You might fail the civil service exam because you own a haunted house. ▲Dark joke: Painter Li says the dead pay more readily than the living. Also known as: The Cold-Faced, Stingy Landlord’s Breaking Point; I Didn’t Fail the Exam, Someone Else Pulled Strings; I’ll Paint Anything, Just Not the Dead; The Landlord Studied for the Civil Service Exam for Three Years, but His Tenant Passed Here are two upcoming stories. I hope you’ll give them a chance: Another historical transmigration story: A Woman Magistrate Arrives at the Border When Gao Jixing woke up, she found herself covered in blood, pinned beneath a dead man. To survive, she had no choice but to take his travel permit and appointment papers. From then on, a handsome, incredibly capable magistrate appeared in a border county. Contemporary romance: This Story Is Based on a True Story When Li Chunming turned twenty-nine, she could no longer stand her parents pressuring her to get married, so she told a harmless little lie… Theme: Hold on to your true self and keep striving in adversity, and you will reap something wonderful.