[A stunning male lead who's lazier than anyone and loves to eat vs. a dirt-poor female lead with superhuman strength and bugs all over her]
Blurb: A hundred years ago, Ling Buling caught a vicious ghost. When it learned she was immortal, it cursed her to be a penniless pauper forever, reincarnating as an animal through endless lives.
Ling Buling: ...That's vicious and ridiculous!!
After being kicked out for failing to pay rent, Ling Buling squats on the curb, selling snacks while munching on a baked flatbread.
For the 101st time, she sighs with regret: When I caught that bastard, I forgot to tell my fortune first.
Fortunately, she did it today. Business is guaranteed within the hour!
Except she failed to foresee that this job would not only be a humiliating professional setback, but also leave her completely at the mercy of a ghost of unknown origin.
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Fuming had been asleep for a long time. After being dug up, he woke with his memories completely blank.
That wouldn't have been a problem, except the person who dug him up brought a young woman around to knock on his coffin every day and disturb his sleep.
Unable to put up with it any longer, he decided to go out and teach the little nuisance a lesson.
The moment they touched, Fuming was wide awake, countless magical formations and esoteric arts flooding his mind.
Fuming: Do we have a past together? I don't remember. But no matter, I'll get closer and see.
Ling Buling, after being subjected to his attention day and night: He's messing with my head. He wants to play with me until he's had enough, then kill me!
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Six months later, the hottest local news in Yi'an City:
[In the first courtyard from the right on Chisong Lane, there's a pair of Taoist master sweethearts. They're experts at catching ghosts, banishing demons, telling fortunes, and drawing talismans.]
Jobs completed:
First job: The basement mass grave.
Second job: The River of Liars' End.
Third job: Bullying is never forgiven.
...More to come.
Blurb dated May 2, 2024
Reader advisory:
1. Both leads are each other's only partners. Sweet romance, happy ending.
2. Modern setting, completely fictional.
3. These stories are episodic, though not quite a collection of standalone episodes. The romance and individual cases each take up about half the story, possibly a 6:4 split.
4. All ghost-catching and demon-banishing spells and techniques in the story are invented by the author. They aren't realistic and aren't meant to be researched.
More to be added if anything else comes to mind...
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Theme: Cherish life and stay true to yourself.
