A Guide to Raising a Bad-Luck Puppy Dog with a Flirty Streak

When people die, they become ghosts. After wandering among the living for seven days, they are reincarnated.

If a ghost still has an unresolved attachment, it will be trapped in the world of the living and unable to reincarnate.

Once its attachment fades, the ghost leaves behind a keepsake.

These keepsakes are imbued with their owners' emotions and given special abilities.

In a bustling part of Jiangcheng, there was a pawnshop that rarely saw customers but opened every day, keeping regular business hours from nine to five.

Its name was ominous: the Keepsake Pawnshop.

Passersby would mutter, “What a cursed place,” afraid of catching bad luck.

Yet the shop's owner was an absolute beauty.

With white hair falling to his shoulders and pale eyes, he always sat in his shop reading, wearing a pair of half-rim glasses.

Shi Xianwu lost both his parents when he was three and grew up in an orphanage. He had been connected to ghosts since childhood and had received endless care and help from kind spirits.

To help kindred ghosts let go of their attachments and reincarnate, Shi Xianwu opened a pawnshop that only accepted the possessions of the dead.

Before a ghost let go of its attachment and reincarnated, it would hand its keepsake to Shi Xianwu, who would sell it to the living at a clearly marked price.

The pawnshop's business was “booming”: it lost more than it earned. Ghosts lined up at the door, but nobody would buy the keepsakes even if they were given away for free.

One day, Shi Xianwu opened the shop as usual, but the customer who came in was not a ghost. He was a hapless young master.

The young master had been born in the yin year, yin month, yin day, and yin hour. Misfortune clung to him: he choked on water, got food stuck in his throat, his car broke down on the road, and then it rained when he had to walk...

The young master took shelter from the rain in the pawnshop. Soaked through, he looked up and met a pair of gentle, affectionate eyes.

The bad-tempered young master's long-dormant heart skipped a beat.

He fell in love with the pawnshop's owner at first sight.

Shi Xianwu soon found himself unable to shake the young master, who came to the shop every day. Even when Shi Xianwu went out with ghosts to take care of business, the young master insisted on tagging along.

Feeling sorry for him, burdened as he was by ill fortune, Shi Xianwu kept him close so he could benefit from his accumulated virtue. Little did he know that from the start, this man had been lusting after him and planning to take the dazzlingly radiant beauty home as his wife.

It was only later, when Shi Xianwu was taken to the young master's huge villa, pinned to the bed, and kissed until the corners of his eyes turned red, that he finally realized, as he struggled to catch his breath: This dog had turned into a wolf, and now he was trying to steal his virtue another way.

The owner smiled seductively, patted the wolfdog's head, and leaned close to his ear. “I know you like me, but, A Yu, you know I'm getting old. I can't handle too much excitement.”

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Pei Jinyu was the son of Jiangcheng's richest man. Born into privilege, he was determined to take anything he wanted by force.

He should have grown up with a silver spoon in his mouth, but he was born at an unlucky hour. He had a pair of yin-yang eyes that worked only sporadically, and was plagued by resentful ghosts.

Pei Jinyu had been unlucky all his life. The first time he saw Shi Xianwu, he was nearly blinded by the golden glow of accumulated virtue shining around him.

So the unruly, impossibly arrogant young master willingly became his boss's puppy, earning virtue through cuddles, hugs, kisses, and pets, and longing for his “master” to show him affection.

He would get a little virtue for himself, but he was taking the boss home as his wife, too.

Warning: Younger love interest. The bottom is nine years older than the top, but thanks to his accumulated virtue, he does not really age.

Theme: A smile will always carry you through