I Helped an Ancient Ghost Emperor Escape Poverty and Get Rich

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[Poor, aloof, laid-back, beautiful-but-tragic top + thousand-year-old tsundere, fiercely protective, proactive bottom]

Wuzhi is the Nth-generation sole heir and abbot of a shabby little temple.

Born with Buddha bones and extraordinary spiritual power.

Unfortunately, the temple is in such poor repair and gets so few worshippers that grass could grow in its donation box.

His daily routine: chant sutras, lay ghosts to rest, and head down the mountain to catch spirits for rice money.

His motto: Nothing in this world is more precious than a bowl of plain noodles.

Until one night, as torrential rain poured down, he found a huge headache beneath a bodhi tree.

The first thing the newcomer said was, "Is this glowing little ball a night-shining pearl?"

Wuzhi stared expressionlessly at the last bowl the other man had smashed. "Pay up."

Xie Zeqing: ?

Wuzhi discovered that when this troublesome fellow came near him, the resentment around him was cleansed.

One glare from him could make a century-old vengeful ghost kneel and call him Dad.

Better yet, when Wuzhi brought him along on a mission, evil spirits cleared out on their own!

Wuzhi clutched the thick envelope. "...You can stay, I suppose."

[Reader's Guide]

1. Watch a poor, beautiful-but-tragic monk get hustled.

2. Horror plot, sweet romance.

3. Both leads are strong and dote on each other. They fall for each other wholeheartedly.

4. A Ghost Emperor is the ultimate evil-spirit repellent. You'll understand how convenient it is once you've used one. (A monk's financial wisdom.)

5. This is a fictional setting. Please don't conflate it with reality, and respect religions and beliefs.

6. A 50% advance-reading lock is in effect. Please support the official Jinjiang version. Thank you!

In a nutshell: The poorest Buddhist temple wage earner x the strongest Ghost Emperor purification device. To rebuild the temple, he'll keep taking the big shot through dungeons today, too!

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[Cold, calculating top x bottom with the highest combat power]

After the Lighthouse dungeon reset for the third time, Li Luo learned three lessons:

First, don't stick with the main group.

Second, the more supplies, the better.

Third, that white-haired boy was the only person who could work with him.

So, once he woke up, the first thing he did was find the white-haired boy and ask to team up. He had only one goal: survive.

When the other boy asked why, he replied:

"I'm smart, and you're fast with a knife. If we team up, our odds of survival are seventy percent higher than everyone else's."

From the moment they became bound as twins, their lives were linked.

When Li Luo was paralyzed on one side by a neurotoxin, Si Yuan immediately started bleeding from every orifice. With red-rimmed eyes, he held Li Luo in his arms and said in a trembling voice, "If you're in pain, I'm in pain too."

Later, someone asked Si Yuan, "Don't you hate people touching you? Why are you always clinging to Li Luo?"

Si Yuan wiped his knife, the tips of his ears red as could be, and stubbornly denied it. "Who's clinging to him? I'm just afraid that if he dies, I'll die too."

Just then, Li Luo gave a soft cough behind him. Si Yuan's knife clattered to the ground, and he rushed over at once.

Everyone else: "...Is he really that afraid of dying?"

[Bonus Scene]

Li Luo: "What's your name?"

037: "...I don't have one."

Li Luo: "Then I'll give you one. Si Yuan. Yuan means wall. You stand in front of me like a wall."

037 (ears turning red): "...Whatever you say."

(Thinking: He gave me a name. He gave me a name. He gave me a name.)

Li Luo: "What are you thinking about?"

037: "Nothing."

He paused.

037: "...Say it again."

[Reader's Guide]

1. Top POV, the bottom dotes on the top. Both leads are strong. One-on-one throughout, single-couple romance.

2. The romance develops slowly, and so does the plot (bowing).

3. Dungeon-clearing adventure. There are angst and sweet moments, with sweetness hidden in the angst. Guaranteed happy ending.

4. Not a traditional apocalypse story. No saintly self-sacrifice or pointless suffering. They get revenge on the spot and hand out sweetness on the spot.

5. Everyone is kind and gets their happy ending. No rushed ending, and neither lead gets replaced.

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[No glands, unknowingly seductive F top (Fang Chi) x SSS+ pheromone overload, proud top Alpha bottom who bows for love (Qin Jue)]

Fang Chi is an office worker at an advertising agency.

After working overtime for a month straight, he stayed up all night cursing his way through an ABO melodrama, then died and transmigrated into a book. He opened his eyes as an Omega extra who appeared in three chapters before being drugged and handed over to a scumbag Alpha.

His first reaction was to save the evidence, call the police, and get an ambulance. He also threw the scumbag Alpha over his shoulder and rescued Wen Ran, the original story's bottom, who was there too.

The plot-correction System bound to him told him that if he wanted to survive, he had to put all the original story's melodramatic plotlines back on track.

His golden finger was a gender that "could not be classified." In simple terms, he had no glands or pheromones, couldn't be marked, and was immune to all pheromone suppression and inducement. (He later named people like himself F, for Free.)

Fang Chi: ...So I'm supposed to be a bug in the ABO world?

The whole city relied on pheromones to match people up. He insisted on using laws and logic to fix the melodrama instead.

And so...

When a scumbag Alpha unleashed top-grade pheromones to force Fang Chi into a relationship, Fang Chi yawned. "That's it?" Then he turned around and sent the man to the police station.

When an Omega was induced to lose control during a heat, Fang Chi handed them suppressants and calmly called the police to gather evidence. "If you can solve it by calling the police, don't go into heat."

When Qin Jue, the strongest Alpha in the city, went berserk during a rut, nobody dared approach wherever his pheromones reached. Fang Chi alone crouched in front of him and offered him a cup of hot water. "You're an adult. Get a grip on your emotions."

For the first time in his life, Qin Jue was treated like a person. It was also the first time he fell for someone whose pheromones he couldn't smell.

He cornered Fang Chi against a wall. "You don't have pheromones. What could possibly make me fall for you?"

Fang Chi thought for a moment. "Maybe... because I don't want your pheromones, and I don't believe in fate deciding who's meant to be together? Your compatibility scores are even cloying compared to industrially produced candy."

Bonus Scene:

[818: What kind of pheromones does the man who made Young Master Qin lose control in public have?]

Thread starter: I was right there. Young Master Qin's pheromones forced every Alpha on the floor to their knees, but that guy just stood there yawning?

1L: I heard he doesn't have pheromones or glands.

2L: ??? Even Betas have a faint scent. How can someone not have glands?

3L: It's true. I saw the test report. The gender field showed an error and spat out four characters: "No such gender." The testing device started smoking on the spot.

4L: So does that make him an A, a B, or an O???

5L: None of them. Later, he gave himself the letter F. In other words, the rules of ABO don't apply to him.

[Reader's Guide]

1. Top POV, one-on-one, both leads are each other's only partners, happy ending. The strongest Alpha is the bottom.

2. The romance is exclusive to Qin Jue. There are mild rivalry scenes between men, but no ambiguous love triangle and no switching leads.

3. No pregnancy or children (the top has no glands). Their relationship grows through spending time together, not through pheromones.

Theme: Working people are the greatest.