After He Was Mistaken for a Ghost and Taken Home, I Found Out He Had a Crush on Me

[The blurb for the ongoing novel "After Her Successful Redemption, She Works Hard to Fake Her Death" is at the end. Here's the blurb for this novel.]

Jiang Mian died.

Everyone thought so.

Yet on a rainy night three years later, she suddenly returned and ran into an old classmate from Lushan Academy: His Highness the Prince of Duan.

The Prince of Duan found her, drenched from head to toe, and brought her back to his residence.

Jiang Mian thought she was visiting an old friend, never guessing that he would lock her in a dark room.

After three days at the prince's residence, she noticed that all sorts of strange new rules had appeared out of nowhere.

The Prince of Duan forbade her from mentioning what happened when she "died," wouldn't let her go out during the day, and had even started secretly reading up on the basics of keeping ghosts.

Could it be that the upright and rational Prince of Duan thought seeing Jiang Mian meant he had encountered a ghost?

And then he started carefully and tenderly keeping one?!

[Love-struck, prone to wild assumptions and jealousy, an aloof flower on a high peak vs. stunningly powerful, dependable when it matters, but laid-back about the little things, a gorgeous block of wood]

His Highness the Prince of Duan was born to nobility and wielded great power. He had wealth, authority, fame, and status in abundance.

But he had one great worry: the girl he had secretly loved since his youth.

He had gathered his courage to confess, only to be rejected without mercy, then insulted, mocked, and ridiculed by her.

When he tried to seek her out again, he saw her with someone else.

He told himself he could just let her go, but still couldn't help being drawn to her.

He wanted to look after her a little, and ended up looking after his rival in love, too.

By day, he appeared immaculate. In private, he had long since been steeped in the sourness of years-old jealousy.

He thought that was the most bitter thing in the world.

Then he heard that she had disappeared in Cangzhou, with no sign of her alive or dead.

Only then did he learn what true agony was: a heart dead and reduced to ashes.

[Reading Guide]

1. The author is the heroine's biggest fan. The hero suffers, but the heroine doesn't.

2. The hero graduated at the top of the class from the School of Proper Conduct for Men.

3. For fans of dramatic fake-death stories. I wrote this one to feed my own tastes.

[New novel now available] "After Her Successful Redemption, She Works Hard to Fake Her Death"

Su Yunwei waits every day for her husband to kill her to prove his Dao.

As soon as he kills her, her mission will be complete.

Su Yunwei is a nine-tailed fox with only eight tails.

To grow her ninth tail and ascend, she must enter the mortal world and fulfill other people's wishes. The wish she has taken on this time is to become the wife of Shen Lanzhi, the God of Slaughter, and then be killed by him so he can prove his Dao.

The first half of the wish goes smoothly. The fox finds a pitiable young man who has yet to become the God of Slaughter, stages a redemption story all by herself, and easily wins his most tender and devoted love.

But the second half gets completely stuck.

--No matter what, Shen Lanzhi refuses to kill her.

The fox is driven to start causing trouble at every turn.

But no matter how fierce she is, how much she bullies him, or even when she pretends she is going to kill him, he only looks at her with a gentle smile.

He is patient and generous, and only treats her even better.

The fox finally can't take it anymore. On the day Shen Lanzhi's enemies come to attack, she uses an illusion to trick him and dies by his Qingyun Sword.

Before she dies, she even kindly takes his enemies out along with her.

The spiritual power she gains from completing the wish allows her to ascend successfully.

She is happily hugging her nine tails when she suddenly hears that the God of War has returned to his place in Heaven and is scouring the Four Seas and Eight Wilds, searching for the enemy from his mortal trial. The sort of enemy bound to him by a blood feud.

The fox hugs her tails and shivers.

N-no way. It can't be that bad.

**

The first half of Shen Lanzhi's life was like a lonely trek through hell.

It wasn't until he met Su Yunwei that he reached out and grasped a ray of warm light.

She cared about him, cherished him, and would tell him she liked him with a bright-eyed smile.

He loved her.

He could give her anything, including his life.

But she didn't want his life. Instead, she gave up her own to protect him.

The day he mistakenly killed her, he knelt at the foot of the mountain, holding her corpse and trembling as he cried out her name again and again, his face wet with blood and tears, each cry wrenched from his heart.

Shen Lanzhi thought he had already experienced the greatest suffering in the world, but nothing in his first half of life came close to even a fraction of the pain of losing her.

He gave up ascending and crossed every inch of the Nine Continents, searching for the remnants of her soul. Alone and desolate, his grief tore him apart.

He wept until he went blind, cut out his core, scattered his cultivation, and stripped away his flesh and blood, all to find his beloved and trade for one chance to bring her back to life.

Then he came to an unfamiliar mountain. From the fox demons' teasing laughter all around him, he learned that it had all been a lie.

Everything he had gone through was a scheme, a performance staged by a nine-tailed fox demon.

She had treated him well only to grow her ninth tail and ascend.

And she had indeed ascended long ago, raising eighteen little demons in Heaven and keeping them by her side every day.

Shen Lanzhi stood motionless all night. When dawn broke in the east, he slowly curled his lips into a smile.

He would search every corner of Heaven and Hell until he found her, and this time he would never let her go.

[A fake sweetheart with no heart, a scummy fox vs. a devoted and faithful fake God of Slaughter who slowly turns dark]

[Reading Guide]

1. The heroine simply doesn't understand feelings, but she's a good fox!

2. The hero won't ascend by "killing" the heroine, but the heroine will ascend by acting out the hero's death.

3. The story was inspired by a folk tale about a nine-tailed cat demon who must grant other people's wishes to grow all nine tails.

Theme: Girls can do anything