Don't Pick Up the Ghost King by the Roadside

Shen Nancong has attained the Dao!

He went from "that... useless little Daoist" to "this! Ghost-catching Heavenly Master" in exactly...

one second.

Because he "picked up" a Ghost King!

At first, Shen Nancong didn't notice anything strange. He still planned to make a living performing rituals with his meager Daoist skills, but the ghosts couldn't take it anymore...

Shen Nancong: Souls, return!

Ghost 1: Coming, coming! The Ghost King is here, so who the hell would dare not come?!

Shen Nancong: Spirits and monsters, vanish!

Ghost 2: Vanishing, vanishing! We're vanishing right now!

Shen Nancong: May you reach paradise soon!

Ghost 3: We're on our way, we're on our way! Please, don't get up!

Shen Nancong: Have I gotten stronger?!

Then, one day, while cultivating, Shen Nancong accidentally fell into an ancient battlefield. All around him were people who wanted to kill him.

Just as he was about to scream, he heard an unfamiliar voice curse through his own mouth:

"How dare you pry into this King's memories without permission!"

Shen Nancong opened his eyes in terror, only to see a towering, muscular... well-built humanoid mass of black mist gathered above him.

Shen Nancong realized he didn't need to get stronger. Strength had come to him.

Shen Nancong: Hello. I'd like to propose a mutually beneficial deal.

Yan Due: Speak.

Shen Nancong: I'll burn incense for you, and you help me catch ghosts!

But Shen Nancong didn't know that deals like this often ended in exploitation...

Shen Nancong: Damn... get off me!

Yan Due: You weren't saying that 2,430 years and 32 days ago.

Shen Nancong: ...Please get off me, Your Majesty.

Yan Due: On my way!

*Oblivious, clumsy little Daoist bottom x the Ghost Realm's most devoted, tsundere Ghost King top

*Cover art thanks to my dear friend Jiang Cancan!

My next novel is If You Knew I Used Tarot to Find a Husband, You'd Think I Was Born Lucky

A silly, sweet urban entertainment-industry romcom. Please add it to your collection ^^/

Have you ever risked your life for anything?

Xia Qinghan: I... had my fortune told.

Desperate to escape his string of bad luck, C-list celebrity Xia Qinghan seems to exhaust every ounce of strength and every means at his disposal. When he has nowhere else to turn, a tarot deck sends him from a dead end straight down an even darker path.

Following the tarot cards' guidance, he accidentally gets pulled into a variety show shoot, spends 30 intimate minutes with his idol on a Ferris wheel, and unexpectedly lands a new gig.

Xia Qinghan's eyes widen in shock.

It's really accurate?!

Manager: There's a commercial appearance near a funeral home. I don't know if you'd be willing to...

Xia Qinghan: Death! I'll take it!

Manager: Your night shoot later is a scene where you're drunk...

Xia Qinghan: Six of Cups... Pour me five more!

Manager: Tomorrow's scene has been canceled, and the stunt double called in sick...

Xia Qinghan: The Tower... I'll jump myself!

Thanks to his wildly creative interpretations of the tarot cards, Xia Qinghan's career really does come back from the dead. What he doesn't know is that someone else's love life is coming back to life, too.

Cheng Wang is a veteran award-winning actor who's hopeless at romance scenes and has never had a single romance film worth showing for it.

But after stepping off the Ferris wheel, all those symptoms miraculously disappear.

Even his fans notice that their idol seems to have... fallen in love.

With someone who doesn't love him back.

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Cheng Wang: Your readings have been wrong from the very beginning.

Xia Qinghan: How were they wrong? When did they start being wrong?

Cheng Wang: On the Ferris wheel.

*Energetic husky, a metaphysics disaster zone, bottom vs. self-deluded, blunt romantic, a romance-scene disaster zone, top

Theme: Good triumphs over evil