Tales of the Strange in Chizhen

(My next book will be The Sickly Beauty Survives by Farming Guilt Points,

with a mute heroine, a blind heroine, a heroine with a blood disorder, and a heroine with heart disease, paired with male leads of all kinds!

A bittersweet, sweet-and-angsty story!)

Blurb:

[Town Mysteries] [Supernatural] [Healing? Soul-Crushing!] [Period Piece] [Lovecraftian-Inspired]

[Short Story] [First Person] [Brain-Teasing Mystery and Sweet Romance, But a Tragic Ending] [Niche Premise]

[A wild, eccentric, wildly imaginative heroine who's hopeless at romance × a seemingly gentle but secretly ruthless, obsessive, self-restrained male lead who gets the short end of the stick]

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Shh... Don't tell anyone else.

I can see how he will die before my own life even begins.

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Once, Fat Tiger and I were the best of friends.

Because I knew his deepest, best-hidden secret.

Under the threat of my intimidation, he had no choice but to complain and curse while doing my every bidding.

Fat Tiger: "Can't you install some kind of device, so the next time you cry, you can hold up a sign over your head explaining why?"

Fat Tiger: "Why are you so impossible, you little tyrant?"

Fat Tiger: "Wherever you want to go for college, I'll go too."

But on the eve of the college entrance exams, what he saw was my corpse.

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Chi Town is a deeply strange place.

Records say that someone once became trapped in a death loop there.

No one knows how to escape it.

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Reader's Guide:

1. A short story in first person, around 100,000 characters. If it does well, I'll make it longer.

2. A silly school-life story with a tragic ending. If it makes you uncomfortable, please stop reading.

3. Set around 1990 to 2000, so it's an unconventional period piece (laughs).

4. There's a big secret hidden in the ending. If you make it to the end, please don't spoil it in the comments.

5. Faux incest: the leads aren't on the same household registration.

6. It's already been added to the short-story collection. Since the numbers weren't good for a while after it ended, I won't be updating the extras.

2024.10.16

Theme: The world is always worth exploring