[My new novel is now open for follows! A broke Forbidden City restoration specialist x a high-maintenance, big-shot documentary director. Blurb at the end. Please add it to your favorites, thank you!]
Surgeon x judge and professor
At the end of the eerily silent Nan Zhong Road, a strange teahouse sits hidden away by itself. Its entrance is an old wooden door with uneven, peeling black paint. A wooden sign hangs above it, its lacquer chipped and flaking. Almost impossible to see unless you look closely, a few words are written in one corner: Forgotten River Tea House.
The neighboring shops whisper all kinds of rumors. The place doesn't open every day, doesn't take customers, and no one is ever seen there during daylight. It rents such a cold, out-of-the-way spot and renews its lease year after year, so it must be a front for money laundering. Some people say they heard a woman crying inside when they passed by at night. Others claim they heard a low song, as if someone were squeezing the singer's throat. The notes came out in fits and starts, floating in midair without ever settling. With so many rumors, it's no wonder no customers are ever seen entering the shop.
Lu Yuhuai, a surgeon at Lincheng Hospital, thinks he has nothing to do with the supernatural, until he meets actual employees of the underworld.
There are five judges: one moonlights as a university professor, one is a small-town police officer, one runs a law firm, one is a veterinarian, and one is a cook. White Impermanence moonlights as a therapist, while Black Impermanence plays guitar in a band.
Together with Meng Po, the youngest among them at not quite two hundred years old, they own the "Forgotten River Tea House."
Before the dead depart, some weep bitterly, some smile, some fall into hysterics, and others say nothing at all. But no matter how reluctant they are, in the end they must drink that cup of tea, forget their pain, let go of their obsessions, and set off alone.
Yet some souls are too obsessed, too happy, or too unwilling to let go. For them, simply saying "Please drink your tea" isn't enough. They have to be sent here.
And tonight, another customer is on the way. The wind sweeps down the street, setting the string of bells outside the teahouse ringing.
As for Lu Yuhuai, he discovers that he and Professor Lu seem to have had a rather improper relationship since their previous lives...
Note: One-on-one romance, happy ending, no angst. The past-life sections will be kept as short as possible.
[Next up: "The Capital's Crown Prince." Here's the blurb for my upcoming novel. If you're interested, please add it to your favorites. Thanks!]
Broke Forbidden City restoration specialist x high-maintenance, big-shot documentary director
Gu Xujin is a Forbidden City architectural restoration specialist. His salary is modest, but he has plenty of expensive hobbies.
Photography, fishing, and tea-drinking all cost a fortune.
His razor is rusty, his phone is falling apart, and his clothes are worn out, but he can't bring himself to replace any of them.
A coworker posted his penny-pinching exploits on a forum, and overnight the thread grew to a thousand pages.
Yu Tingsheng tried to argue with the thread several times, but he just couldn't take it anymore.
He took a quick look at the blurry, secretly snapped side-profile photo of the handsome coworker and closed it.
Yu Tingsheng is a documentary director, with severe germophobia and an obsession with the finer things.
He won't stay anywhere but a luxury hotel, and a villa isn't worth it unless it's by the sea.
Luxury watches and sports cars are "everyday necessities."
His life motto is four words: Enjoy life.
On the day the Forbidden City documentary project launches,
Yu Tingsheng is stunned to find the scruffy master standing beside him.
Why is it the very guy from that thread?!
Amid all the photos taken, a new iconic image is born.
One commenter sums it up perfectly: A clattering, old-fashioned bicycle crashes into a Rolls-Royce roaring like an engine!
Yu Tingsheng steps into Gu Xujin's pigsty of a rental.
A pile of hole-ridden clothes, a broom stripped bare,
and a grimy tea mug he doesn't dare drink from.
Then his gaze sweeps over Gu Xujin's face and figure, and he quietly swallows.
He convinces himself that rough has its charm, and stingy has its perks,
and that crawfish doesn't necessarily taste worse than Boston lobster.
One day--
Yu Tingsheng unexpectedly runs into Gu Xujin, dressed in a suit, in a mysterious mansion in the capital that's closed to the public.
He looks like a man of lavish excess, utterly extraordinary.
His expression is cold, and the scab on his chin, left by a dull razor, is strangely alluring.
Yu Tingsheng approaches, suppressing his anger. "Sir, may I ask if the Boston lobster here is any good?"
Gu Xujin orders some to go. "It's not as good as crawfish, honey."
Theme: Good and evil are repaid in kind.
My first thought after reading this is that the protagonist is really amazing. He can keep up with the doctors so quickly and even perform surgeries. Medicine has also updated a lot of new things from the war period to now.
Well, if there is such a setting as reincarnation in the underworld, there must be merit, virtue, sin and debt, so the matter of reincarnation here seems a bit ridiculous... This girl is very pitiful. When I watched it, my mind even automatically matched the BGM Three Souls Destroy, but she is so young and she definitely has no merit. If the judge can have a good pregnancy just because he has compassion for her, then I can irresponsibly infer that she was a bad person in her previous life, so the judge made her suffer in this life. I feel that the judges appearing now are too humane... They don't have that kind of judicial order and rationality. Of course, I don't mean that you must be like this when you become a judge, but it seems that they do not have this in their characters. Without the cold majesty of the law, it will appear that their rules for selecting judges are a bit sloppy...
It's a bit weird. First of all, this judge system. At least they are only responsible for one area. Otherwise, it's too nonsense. I feel like this is a bit random. The saving spells are a bit random. I feel that this judge system is very useless. It makes sense if I switch to a Taoist priest. , And then the attack is a bit useless. You have no basic imperial merits or anything, so it is really useless. Finally, the character design is weak. This may be a problem of length. The writing is not bad, why don't you write more, I don't remember all the judges, and the villain's story line is also a little bit. . Forehead. . Is it considered open low and go low😓?
Why are there so few! Originally from the Prince of Jingquan. Come on, author~ write slowly. I really like this light short story
I feel sorry for them and I'm so angry. Every time I see these bad things, I really want to create a new world [angry]
[Orange Candy] Got it [Panda Head] [Panda Head] It's very comfortable while reading ❤️
"In Wei Zheng's Sichuan restaurant, the lunch market has just ended and the late afternoon market has not yet opened. He is wearing a big apron with gloves and wiping the table. It looks like he has "caught a big bug for the author~" Evening market
Sister, look at me 🐶 I don't want to work hard anymore 😭
So this Nie Qianan is really not a good person.
It feels like each incident is covered in one or two chapters [covering face, laughing and crying]