How Are There Still Ghosts When the World Has Ended?

Lu Wu lay behind the counter of a pharmacy, his eyes half closed.

He was dying. A high fever, hypothermia, blood loss. His eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and soon he would lose consciousness.

The fever blurred his vision. Nearly despairing, he closed his eyes. If only he could survive...

The next moment, someone scooped him up from the ground. He sank into a gentle embrace. The stranger gave him medicine, tended his wounds, then draped a coat over him.

The stranger's companion complained, "Yu Yan, we have a mission to carry out. Why waste time on someone who's about to die?"

But he said, "I can't just watch him die."

Lu Wu kept those words in his heart ever after.

Yu Yan.

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Yu Yan, the brightest star at the Lin City base. Lu Wu had traveled all this way for him.

More than once, they passed each other by, and each time Lu Wu pulled back the fingertips he'd reached out.

Until Lu Wu found Yu Yan's dagger. Its blade was razor-sharp, gleaming coldly. Like Yu Yan, it was as aloof and unattainable as a crescent moon.

He kept the dagger.

Lu Wu admired Yu Yan and wanted to become like him.

He couldn't become Yu Yan, but Yu Yan had left behind the dagger... and Lu Wu had found it, so it was his.

It was his dagger.

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Yu Yan was ambushed and left on the brink of death. In a moment of crisis, he hid himself inside the dagger he carried with him.

When Yu Yan woke again, he discovered that someone had taken him home.

The person who brought him back was a gloomy young man. He held Yu Yan in his palm, the corners of his mouth curling into a smile. "You're mine, my precious."

Yu Yan: He's so enthusiastic.

After recovering for a while longer, Yu Yan hid his body inside the dagger and let his soul drift out. Under cover of night, he moved close to Lu Wu and softly whispered in his ear, "What's your name?"

Tell me. Come with me from now on, and I'll protect you.

But the young man's body immediately stiffened. He hurriedly backed away.

"Yu Yan... I'll give the dagger back. Stop haunting me!"

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Lu Wu: Help! I found my idol's dagger and claimed it for myself. Why has my idol turned into an evil ghost coming to claim my life?!

Lu Wu's point of view: A handsome man shrouded in black mist and radiating a chilling aura leaned close behind him. His breath was damp and cloying as he whispered, "What's your name?"

I'm going to eat you! (This is what Lu Wu imagines.)

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1. The worldbuilding is my own. It's set in the apocalypse, but there are no ghosts or similar beings in the material world. The top's abilities can take on a similar form, though.

2. A gloomy, ruthless, clever bottom who's afraid of ghosts x a top who's cold on the outside but pure-hearted underneath. Neither character is perfect.

3. Strong top and weak bottom at first (they're both mentally strong; this only refers to their strength and status), then a strong top and strong bottom later on.

4. The plot takes a back seat to the romance. This is the second BL novel in my found-family series. I really love found-family stories, so there may be more like this later, hehe.

5. Inspired on April 1, 2025, so I got started.

Theme: Every blade of grass adds color to the earth's canvas.