I Raise Divine Lords at the Zoo

[Gentle, scheming, penniless zoo director x employee left with neither money nor dignity]

[Zoo Management + Divine Lord Development Plan]

Gu Qingchuan takes over a zoo on the verge of bankruptcy and loses every last penny.

Only one day does she discover that there aren't any animals in her zoo at all. They're all divine lords who don't want to return to the Celestial Realm...

Sunny Day Zoo has three star attractions:

Female Guest No. 1: Celestial Court's God of War, golden eyes and divine gaze, Lord Haotian: Tiaotiao the white tiger

Female Guest No. 2: Golden-feathered immortal plumes, dancing in all directions, Lord Zhaoyin: Xiaohua the peacock

Female Guest No. 3: Shadow of ghosts and spirits, whose soul will never return, Lord Minglan: Mimi the black panther

The divine lords have long suffered from these tacky names. They've repeatedly tried to stage a coup to get them changed, only to be sent into chaos time and again by Lin Yiyang, the "dog" manager.

As the only divine lord with a human name, Lin Yiyang declares, "At Sunny Day Zoo, even the Jade Emperor himself would have to change his name to Yuyu."

Until one day, Lin Yiyang of the Black Hound clan is also thrown into the zoo to entertain the guests.

Her new official name: Beibei.

Beibei has it rough.

She works during the day to earn her food, and warms the director's bed at night.

At work, she has to brush against the puppy; when she sleeps, she gets her animal ears stroked.

At last, one day, she awakens!

Lin Yiyang: A true man is born between heaven and earth. How can I let myself languish beneath another for long?

Gu Qingchuan: We're having stewed ribs tonight.

Lin Yiyang: ...Jade may shatter, but its quality cannot be changed! Bamboo may be burned...

Gu Qingchuan: And braised beef, too.

Lin Yiyang: Big Sis, make it extra spicy.

Her awakening has failed.

Raising animals is hard. Raising divine lords is even harder.

And Gu Qingchuan is raising over a dozen hungry divine lords all at once.

Money is hard to earn, but life goes on. What should she do?

Obviously, make the divine lords trade on their looks!

Daily updates, daily updates. I'm a new writer, so please be gentle. I hope you enjoy reading!

[Coming soon]

A Taste of the King of Hell's Soft Rice

Blurb:

Even two seconds before she died, Lin Fengmian was still thinking about one question:

Why is life so hard?

She didn't consider herself a good person, but she hadn't done anything truly wicked, either.

While others her age were still studying, she delivered food during the day and worked as an online gaming companion at night.

She practiced social dancing late into the night, hoping to shake her way into a three-bedroom apartment and a Xiaomi Su 7.

She needed money to treat her mother, money to put her younger brother through school, and money to pay off her father's debts.

Then she looked back and saw that her parents' will left all their property to her younger brother.

Her brother complained that the phone she'd bought him was too crappy, since it wasn't an iPhone 17.

Overwhelmed by sadness, she drank ten cans of pineapple beer and passed out by the roadside.

When she woke up, she was already sitting in an open-topped ox cart heading for the mountains, on her way to marry a seventy-year-old man.

She bolted, running all the way to the highway

Only to be hit by a big rig, leaving her bruised and battered from head to toe.

What she felt wasn't pain, but relief and freedom.

Only when Lin Fengmian saw her body shoot across the sky did she realize that she was now a soul.

The befuddled ghost official beside her sobbed and apologized, saying he'd claimed the wrong soul.

Lin Fengmian smiled. "It's okay. You're a good person."

Later, the ghost official said he would make it up to her by letting her be reborn as a human in her next life.

Lin Fengmian stopped smiling. "You're not a good person."

Who would want to be human again?!

By the Bridge of Helplessness, a young female ghost clung to Meng Po and cried for three days and three nights.

She cried until her voice was hoarse, until her heart broke, until the waters of the Yellow Springs rose by three centimeters.

Her crying brought Ox-Head and Horse-Face, then Black and White Impermanence. No one could persuade her to leave.

Finally, the King of Hell came in person, and at last agreed to let her stay in the underworld and give her a job as a ghost official.

Lin Fengmian stopped crying. With her eyes still red, she looked at the beautiful Big Sis before her, whose face was frosty and utterly impatient.

Lin Fengmian: So you're saying I can claim the soul of anyone I want now?

Yan Yuqing: I never said that.

Lin Fengmian's eyes widened slightly. "You're saying the lives of those bastards who bullied me are in my hands now?"

Yan Yuqing gritted her teeth. "I. Never. Said. That!"

Lin Fengmian was overjoyed. "You're saying I've become the Grim Reaper's card?"

Yan Yuqing regretted it. She realized she'd made the wrong decision.

The most shameless ghost official in history had been born.

Sent to claim the soul of someone trying to jump to their death, she turned around and dragged an unfaithful scumbag into the eighteenth level of hell.

Sent to the hospital to claim the soul of an elderly patient near the end of their life, she conveniently took a whole string of criminals instead.

Lin Fengmian's karmic debts piled up as high as the Nine-Story Demon Pagoda.

Late at night, Yan Yuqing stared at the thick stack of karmic-debt reports, her face livid, and snapped the judge's brush in her hand.

Just then, the thoughtful "Have You Been Judged?" app delivered its notification right on time: "Ding! Your ghost official has a new violation ticket. Please handle it promptly~"

Thousands of years of her accumulated merit were about to go up in smoke.

One person does the deed, one person takes responsibility. One ghost does the deed, the King of Hell takes the blame.

[Manic after death, an automatic troublemaking machine of a ghost official uke x cold-faced but soft-hearted King of Hell seme who works overtime to pay off her subordinate's debts]

[P.S. Don't pay too much attention to the logic. We want fights! We want revenge! We want thrills!]

(Please add it to your upcoming reads, all you kind people. orz)

Theme: A puppy's life matters too.