A Hundred Rivers Cross the Sea

An ancient god who is warm on the outside and cold within × a kind-hearted college guy who hides a ruthless side

A tale of folk mythology, of love and loss

I.

Yue Qingluo is a pure-blooded Water God, an orthodox ancient deity. After a mortal deceived her and she made a grave mistake, she was banished to the underworld to guide souls across. After nearly a thousand years of escorting souls, the only thing she has to look forward to is recovering the Water God's divine artifact, stolen by a mortal long ago.

This life was almost unbearable, until her superior ordered her to protect a living person who had been dead for a long time.

She looked down on Lu Sui, who was dim-witted and pointlessly kind, but put on a warm act for the sake of worldly savvy and a promotion. But the heavens had other plans. After they went through a series of trials together, even the ancient god's cold heart began to thaw.

“The divine artifact is inside him. Kill him, and the world will be at peace. You can remain the supreme god.”

A new mission arrived, leaving her caught between two impossible choices. Even a god couldn't make up her mind.

II.

“What is it like to suddenly find out you're not alive?” Lu Sui is well qualified to answer. Near graduation, he played a popular murder-mystery game with his roommates, never expecting that the victim “based on a real person” would turn out to be himself.

So, in addition to graduating, he had two other things to consider: taking a job at Changming Bookshop, where the pay wasn't great but room and board were included, and getting to the bottom of his status as a “victim of a shipwreck.”

Business at Changming Bookshop was good. He met all sorts of people and all kinds of ghosts. The sunny, cheerful boy he often saw, his idealized first love, was a god skilled in both letters and arms. The kind, generous boss who provided free room and board and never docked anyone's pay was the head of the Bank of Heaven and Earth, beloved by every ghost...

As the truth about the shipwreck slowly came to light, Lu Sui thought he had found both family and love. He never imagined that all his tragedies had stemmed from it. At the crossroads, choosing became the one and only problem.

Theme: Traditional myths and legends in a modern story