The Wasteland Oddities Toy Shop

In the fiftieth year of the Pollution Era, Wu Bai, who survived by scavenging garbage to eat, found a book of toy recipes for ghost stories.

As long as she collected toy recipes from the locations of ghost stories, she could make expensive, rare toys!

Brain monsters, two-headed dolls, terrifying chase bears... None of it scared her.

No matter how terrifying the ghost story, it was still just a toy recipe to her!

She sold a [Cream Cake] for 30 coins, then rewarded herself with a steaming bowl of braised-noodle soup and set up a little stall beside the garbage dump.

She sold ten [Telephones] for 1,000 coins, then rewarded herself with a gigantic pot of meat stew and rented a little shop on clean land.

She sold a hundred [Teddy Bears] for 50,000 coins, then rewarded herself with a lavish feast and bought a three-story mansion with a garden.

She sold ten thousand [Finger Biscuits] for 100...00 coins, then rewarded herself by becoming the number-one toy merchant, with 100 ghost-story employees and the entire ghost-story district converted into toy factories.

The ghost stories went crazy. How could there be a family of toy merchants who exploited their workers so badly? After clearing the dungeons, she dragged every ghost story off to work!

Though she did provide room and board.

Toy lovers went crazy, too. How could toys be so amazing? After buying them, their sanity increased by 100, their life force by 100, and their health by 100.

Though they were a little pricey.

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[The Book of All Stories] was an S-rank ghost story of legendary status, master of the stories of everyone in the world. It had devoured hundreds and thousands of greedy humans, and its name was on the ghost-story hunters' list, with a record to prove it.

Now, Wu Bai had changed its title to [The Ghost Story Toy Recipe Book] with just a couple of strokes, and given it a little dog's name: "Xiao Ju."

Every day, humans ordered it around like a dog, and it had to help her make childish toys. Worst of all, sometimes it was even ordered to be her pillow!

"You're a book, after all. I want knowledge to seep into my brain while I sleep."

"I'm the Book of All Things! How could you make a powerful ghost story like me into a pillow, a coaster, and a lid for instant noodles? Aren't you going too far?"

"But now you're my reference book for looking up recipes, and my name is on you. That means you belong to me, so I can do whatever I want with you."

"..."

Humans really are too greedy!

Once it secretly broke through its seal and regained its power, turning into human form, it would definitely...

Firmly refuse to be her pillow. QAQ

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Ghost stories + dungeon clearing and leveling up + business management. A story about clearing ghost-story dungeons, recruiting ghost-story employees, collecting toy recipes, and opening a toy shop. Slow-burn progression.

Wu Bai x Xiao Ju

An incredibly powerful but toy-loving, cute-loving, savage girl x a timid ghost-story toy book who gets bullied often but occasionally stands up for itself

Theme: Overcome fear