Ashes in the Snow

- A swaggering, cool, destructive, but pure-hearted cat bottom x a seemingly weak but truly vicious, dramatic snake top.

- A supremely oblivious cat x a snake who talks himself into things.

- Updates every other day at midnight~

[Main Story Blurb]

They say a new official has three fires to stoke, but when Lu Yize joined the force as a new cat, he burned three sticks of incense.

On his very first day reporting to the Supernatural Affairs Bureau, he accidentally killed three of its leaders.

After that, strange happenings plagued the city, and projects suffered devastating losses.

Yet the director was broad-minded and kept paying his salary!

Deeply moved, Lu Yize prepared to get his work back on track. But before long, the director was killed by him too.

Lu Yize: .

...Maybe I should just quit.

*

A colleague from the fortune-telling division couldn't watch any longer and volunteered to read his fortune.

The result was startling: the reading showed a ferocious, green-faced, fanged, thousand-year-old jiangshi living in Lu Yize's home!

Damn!

Lu Yize shuddered when he heard.

Remembering that he'd recently rescued a cripple, he immediately grabbed a peachwood sword and rushed home.

But the moment he stepped inside, he saw the cripple fall out of his wheelchair. He sat on the floor, wretched and dejected, staring blankly at the spilled food.

Oh, heaven.

A disaster out of nowhere,

chaos everywhere,

a complete mess.

And the gas is still on!

Lu Yize was so startled his tail stood straight up. "...What have you done in here now?"

Lou Suxue said innocently, "I wanted to repay you."

Lu Yize smiled. "...?"

The things this guy did to repay him included, but were not limited to:

Hammering nails into the wall while Lu Yize slept,

"standing" on one leg while Lu Yize carried dishes,

Blowing up the house while Lu Yize was at work.

In short, he made himself completely at home in Lu Yize's place.

...Was this repayment? It was more like payback.

Lu Yize didn't know whether to be grateful or accept that he was just unlucky.

How could a walking disaster like this be a thousand-year-old jiangshi, evil ghost, or wicked god?

But just then, the other man stole a glance at the peachwood sword and suddenly struck a pose as if offering his neck to be executed.

Lou Suxue sighed. "I can't do anything right. Just kill me."

Lu Yize hid the sword. "No, that's not it."

Lou Suxue lowered his eyes. "I keep causing trouble."

Lu Yize: "That's true, but wait!"

"That's not what I meant. Put down the cleaver!"

"Forget it, forget it. We all have it hard."

"Handsome guy, big brother, that's the balcony! Help, someone's about to jump!"

*

Before long, it turned out the fortune-telling colleague hadn't gotten it wrong. The bad luck wasn't caused by the guy at home, but Lou Suxue really was a powerful evil spirit!

An evil black king cobra, no less!

But Lu Yize had seen every kind of monster and demon on his missions.

Before he could even comment, the scheming snake had already fallen apart from his own overthinking.

Overthinking wasn't good for him. Lu Yize raised his tail, planning to have a heart-to-heart with the snake after he got back from his assignment.

Who could have guessed that half a month later, when the cat returned home, the place would have turned into a gloomy, soaking-wet haunted house?

Lou Suxue's long hair was damp. He silently studied the red thread around his finger. He was still here, but had only a sliver of life left.

Lu Yize was so shocked his fur stood on end. In a frantic scramble, he rushed the snake to the emergency room.

After finally saving him, the cat was a tangled mess of emotions, shaken by a sudden, inexplicable fear.

Lou Suxue squeezed the cat's fingers.

"I'm sorry."

"I thought the dream hadn't ended yet."

Lu Yize was confused. "What dream?"

Lou Suxue gazed at him and said nothing.

A two-thousand-year dream, an endless cycle of reincarnation, and no one to be found.

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