Ding! Your Merit Balance Has Been Updated! [Mystery]

A survival-minded writer of restricted fiction X a roguishly handsome, scene-stealing Demon Venerable

After her career as a flop writer, Yan Qingci is diagnosed with a terminal illness and takes up cultivation to extend her life.

She finally passes the exam to become an "immortal civil servant," but still can't land a secure job.

All she can do is take gigs through "Du Le Me" and earn merit.

With little spiritual power and no other talents, she has no choice but to write "exciting" little stories in the "entertainment" section.

After all, as long as she fulfills what people desire and yearn for, she can trade it for merit.

And, well, that kind of desire is a desire too!

Who could have guessed she'd provoke a great demon, Xiao Yan,

who insists that her novels are corrupting the youth...

With him holding something over her, she has no choice but to join his team and take on "big jobs" with him.

The good news: She's hitched herself to a big shot and is raking in merit.

Family curses, a haunted cruise ship, missing disciples from the immortal sects, zombies wandering out of the morgue...

Every case brings merit beyond measure.

The bad news: Xiao Yan, that peacock, is even more explicit than her fiction:

"Writer Yan, with me around, you don't need to pray to the Goddess of Fertility..."

"Eight-pack abs and a V-line, all real. Writer Yan, want to find inspiration on me sometime?"

"Those things you write about, are they really doable? Shouldn't we try them out?"

She really doesn't understand why this demon has to cling to a nobody like her.

He's got a senior sister, his unattainable moonlight, in his heart, yet he's always coming on to her...

She'd just imagined a whole story about the Demon Venerable tormenting his body and heart over a substitute lover,

only to find that he was into true love.

And Writer Yan isn't any better herself: her stories are full of luxury cars, but she's got zero real-life experience.

How could they not be a perfect match?

Both leads are each other's only partner. Happy ending.

(Not traditional cultivation. The worldbuilding is purely the product of an overactive imagination and is not at all rigorous.)

Theme: Everything comes at a cost