The Mist Ghost

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Mu Xiyu, a student at Wudu University, was the sort of person who always drew everyone's attention wherever he went.

Before that great fog, he had practically ruled the campus, and was widely recognized as the handsome face and mascot of his department.

After the fog, however, he found himself staring at the leader of a partner organization of the "Weather Bureau," who was making people run errands for him with practiced ease right outside Mu Xiyu's dorm. Mu Xiyu felt a headache coming on.

Their eyes met. Leaning against the doorframe, Mu Xiyu sincerely lamented, "I must have had a screw loose yesterday to save that idiot doctor."

At that, Zhao Xi raised an eyebrow. "You figured that out too late."

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Zhao Xi was a renowned cold beauty among the three major underground organizations, a representative of the pure-and-simple brute-force kidnapping school. He was domineering and never went back on his word.

Faced with Mu Xiyu's fake smile, he considerately offered the college student, who had concealed his supernatural ability and could easily end up in prison under Wudu law, a choice:

Cooperate, or spend time in the Weather Bureau's detention room.

Mu Xiyu: "…"

What kind of choice is that? There's only one option!

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In Wudu, there is one eternal literary question:

After a fog descends, can you really tell whether the people around you are human or fog wraiths?

The Weather Bureau once officially declared that it would always be responsible for the safety of residents. Its ability users and ever-running filtration system would serve as everyone's protection.

But even so, fog wraiths never disappeared.

They are right there among the crowds.

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They both have secrets of their own. Lying and playing each other for fools is the norm. They're all about being an antagonistic couple.

Couple: A seemingly innocent college guy (?) who's actually a scheming top × a fake cold beauty who's snarky and sharp-tongued

One never tells the truth × the other rarely does

One-on-one, both chaste; strong meets strong; younger top

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New story now underway

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After the Heretic War ended, Yu Boxin, one of the Alliance's seven senior commanders and the commander in chief of the capital battle, waited for a summons from the military tribunal and a notice of dismissal instead of the Interstellar Alliance Medal of Merit.

Three months later, he was dismissed after being condemned for making poor decisions during the war.

On the day his home was seized, Yu Boxin looked at his former subordinates' subordinates crowded at the door, all smiling obsequiously, and said only:

"Hurry up. I'm in a rush."

*

A few days later, on a planet somewhere on the edge of the Alliance.

After holing up at home for three days, Fu Cen finally prepared to go out, rubbing his neck as he opened the door, only to find the "former pillar of the Alliance" standing outside.

The pillar himself looked a little pale. His whole being practically screamed "do not mess with me," and the look he gave Fu Cen was hard to describe.

Yu Boxin's face was so iconic, plastered on TV every day, that it was impossible not to recognize him.

Having enjoyed just a few days of peace, Fu Cen wasn't keen on inviting trouble in. He blurted out a lie: "I don't want to take you in. You're too good-looking, and I'm afraid I'll do something I'll regret."

Yu Boxin: "…"

Yu Boxin sneered. "Sorry, but people who break their promises and have terrible memories aren't in a position to make demands."

Fu Cen: ?

When did that happen?

*

Instead of enjoying a nice, easy retirement, Yu Boxin had chosen to live on this rundown planet, risking his life every day to scavenge in restricted zones. Fu Cen suspected he was a few screws short.

It wasn't until later that he learned the screw-loose streak and the habit of making things up on the spot ran in the family.

He'd passed them down himself.

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A master of changing faces, the bottom × an unreliable top / Yu Boxin × Fu Cen

Cold-faced and charming × smiling-faced and cold

One-on-one, both chaste; strong meets strong

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[To this day, we still cannot fully describe the relationship between patients with genetic diseases and heretics. All we know is that they have formed a strange symbiosis.]

[We cannot explain the true mechanism behind it, because it has already gone beyond the realms of medicine and genetics. We only know that the mutated DNA may be some kind of bond, tightly linking similar genes.]

[But one thing is certain: they hate humanity, their former kin.]

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