What Lies on Nameless Mountain?

Hunter x Mountain God

Blurb 1

"It wants to come home with me!!!"

Li Taoran screamed inwardly.

Li Taoran had just moved back into her renovated old home when she found an injured black cat in the backyard! Its fur was as smooth as silk, and the tiny thing was curled up in a patch of prickly grass, looking at her pitifully. It clearly wanted to come home with her! So she picked it up and brought it home.

(The black cat: I was not looking at you pitifully.)

Before long, the cat she'd been feeding so well ran away.

But then she found a handsome, upright dog by her parents' graves! With a face like that, it had to be trying to seduce her! So she cuddled it and brought it home.

Before long, the dog she'd been feeding so well ran away.

Li Taoran was heartbroken. Maybe she really wasn't cut out for raising cats and dogs.

Then a fox that seemed strangely familiar showed up at her door.

After spending time together, she realized they all had so much in common... Could the spirits in the mountains have picked her as their one person to fleece?

Nameless Mountain really was a magical place. She had a cat and a dog, then after the fox left, she found a gray wolf. After the wolf ran away, she came across a tiger. This time, Li Taoran came to her senses. How could she bring a tiger home and keep it? She firmly resisted the temptation and said no.

Before long, a gloomy, aggrieved man knocked on her door.

"Why didn't you bring me home?"

"...Who are you?"

Blurb 2

Newly on her own, Li Taoran was ready to make her mark.

As an experienced hunter, surely the game on Nameless Mountain would be easy pickings?

She might occasionally pick up a cat or dog... a fox... a wolf, and even a tiger?

Why were they all people? Wait, maybe they weren't people?

Whatever. It didn't matter.

She could write and fight, earn money, and afford to keep them. She could afford all of them.

She could teach at the new academy opened by the imperial court and earn a monthly salary, open a remarkable mountain-goods shop and make a fortune, and visit the Shanhai Realm in her spare time to inspect her suppliers.

This was great. She liked this kind of life.

Her only problem was that someone was always whispering in her ear:

Can I bite you? Don't you like it? When are we getting married?

Reader's guide:

1. The heroine is a hunter, experienced and literate.

2. The hero is a mountain god, unfamiliar with human ways and completely illiterate.

Theme: Everyone has a responsibility to care for small animals