Novels like I'm a Merchant in a World of Horror
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- 51 Surviving in a Strange World, I Became a Pawnshop Owner 诡异世界求生，我成了典当铺老板 [Rules-Based Horror + Lovecraftian Horror + Business-Building + Progression System] When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes back at you. You there, get in here! I’m an internet-addicted teenager. I was planning to stay up all night and finish a horror novel when I was unexpectedly dragged into a bizarre survival world. There was a mysterious pawnshop, an abacus that could talk, and on my very first deal, I got swindled by a Level One supernatural item: the Ghost Bride... 53Reads—Score—14d adds
- 52 A Record of Strange Encounters 怪异见闻录 [Folk horror, Taoist exorcists, spirit mediums banishing evil, no romance, intelligent protagonist] My grandmother is a spirit medium. Just tonight, Uncle Bei from our village came to ask her to perform an exorcism. He said Auntie Liu from the village was actually a ghost? But Auntie Liu only came to my shop yesterday to buy paper money! And so began a series of strange encounters… that turned me from an ordinary person into someone with only three souls and six spirits left! 13Reads—Score—14d adds
- 53 I Haven't Even Put on an Act Yet, and You're Slapping Ten Million in My Face? 我还没装呢，一千万就甩我脸上？ [The rating will rise once it comes out] + [Feel-good power fantasy] + [Lighthearted and funny] + [No System] + [Unhinged] + [Legal know-how] + [No cultivation] + [Uses everyone] There's something wrong with you if you have power and don't use it. Lin Mo ends up inside a short drama called The Real and Fake Young Masters. His green-tea younger brother uses manipulative sweet talk to frame him. Lin Mo just gives him a disdainful smile. Did you really think I was some kind of good person? You want 3kReads8.4Score11614d adds
- 54 The Last Paper-Cutting Artist 最后一位剪纸人 My name is Song Xiaohan. I’m a living corpse with no heartbeat, and a paper-cutting artist of the underworld. On the surface, I cut paper decorations for a funeral shop, but behind closed doors, I trade with humans and ghosts. My master passed away two months ago and left me the family craft, along with this modest little shop and my tools of the trade: a pair of scissors and a carving knife. “You want to make a deal with me? But all I want is your shadow!” Song Xiaohan grinned. 186Reads8.5Score3114d adds
- 55 The Great Master of the Ma Yi School 麻衣大相师 I was born on the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month. My grandfather, a feng shui master, never let me go outside after dark when I was little. Then one day, he had to leave the house… 234Reads8.6Score—14d adds
- 56 The Orthodox Taoist Priest 正一道士 The scourge of evil cults has plagued the world for thousands of years. Though repeatedly eradicated, they never truly disappear. In this age of peace, a massive evil cult stands against the righteous path, seeking to destroy it and take its place. Science is revered in the modern age, and the Daoist arts have declined. Yet Daoism has been passed down for thousands of years, with many branches and schools still standing across China, and gifted practitioners emerging one after another to keep th 410Reads6.2Score—14d adds
- 57 In American Horror Story: I Become a God by Copying Traits Without Limit! 人在美恐：无限复制词条成神！ [The Myriad Worlds arc is underway: the One Piece arc is complete, and the American comics arc (The Boys + DC + Marvel) has just begun!] Ewell is reborn in a chaotic world where horror realms have merged. Here, evil spirits, demons, mutants, madmen, witches, monsters, Lovecraftian creatures, and everything else all point to the danger this world holds. Just after awakening his memories from the start, Ewell must face the three deformed brothers from Dead End! Just as he thinks he's done for, he 35.8kReads6.8Score3.8k14d adds
- 58 The Book of Buried Ghosts 葬诡经 Most people know about Thailand's black magic, but few realize that China's own Jiangmen tradition is the true source of all such sorcery. As the saying goes: “A master of sorcery has no ancestors in the Southern Seas; reverence for the Three Teachings is the true tradition.” Let me tell you all about the Chinese sorcerers and their craft… 3.3kReads8.4Score42614d adds
- 59 A Spirit Medium’s Disciple Who Became a Taoist 当道士的出马弟子 First, I offer incense as a disciple of the spirit-medium tradition. I am a junior student of Qingwei! This book has three aims! First, to explain some rather mysterious topics and present superstitious ideas from a scientific perspective! Second, to share a few tips on avoiding scams, so no one gets tricked! Third, there is no fantasy cultivation or wish-fulfillment in this book! Fourth, everything mentioned in the book is based on my own personal experience! Zhengyuantang, Wang Clan Immortal R 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 60 The Supernatural General Store 妖妖灵杂货铺 A dilapidated grocery store goes by another name: Yaoyao Ling. Think that sounds strange? The owner of this shop is stranger still. Other people hunt ghosts, but he eats them. You’re afraid of going to hell, but he was born there. After thousands of years, he can no longer tell whether he is human or ghost. But he knows exactly why he is still alive. Everything begins in this little grocery store, where funny, thrilling, and fascinating supernatural tales await. It’s all here at the Yaoyao Ling 117Reads7.0Score—14d adds
- 61 A Master Is a Master, Never a Wife 师尊就是师尊，是不能成为娘子的 Reborn for eighteen years, Jiang Yuan finally steps onto the path of cultivation, relying on the blessings passed down by his ancestors. To make things even better, he obtains a “get stronger by falling in love” System. But... “What? My second senior sister will torment me until I wish I were dead because of the junior fellow apprentice who shows up in the future?” “What? My first senior sister will cripple my cultivation and turn me into a useless person because of the junior fellow apprentice 16.4kReads7.4Score1.8k14d adds
- 62 The Midnight Spirit Shop 深夜灵店 I'm neither a yin-yang master nor an exorcist, but I do have an unusual left eye. I run a shop that opens only at midnight, serving customers who have run into special troubles. A little shop, a cup of tea for a guest, and so my story begins... 1.7kReads8.6Score19414d adds
- 63 EN Marvel & DC: The Underground Doctor Who Saved Batman 美漫：无证黑医，开局救活蝙蝠侠 Yang Ming is an unlicensed back-alley doctor who moves between Marvel and DC. By day, he removes bullets from gangsters in Hell’s Kitchen. By night, he stitches up villains in Gotham. Then one day: [Ding! Mission to save the dying Batman initiated.] Mission One: Heal Bruce Wayne’s physical injuries. Mission Two: Cure Tony Stark’s fear of insufficient firepower. Mission Three: Heal Wanda’s psychological trauma. He thought it would be a simple doctor-patient relationship. He never expected the sup 7.8kReads7.0Score78314d adds
- 64 The Coffin of Life and Death 生死棺材 In our line of work, there’s a type known as the miscellaneous school. They follow unorthodox paths, dabbling in everything but mastering nothing. They have no sect above them and no helpers below them, and nobody takes them seriously. I’m an heir to the miscellaneous school, yet I turned their world upside down and left them in chaos. Only when I decided to retire did I discover a shocking mystery hidden within me... 491Reads8.7Score10014d adds
- 65 The Second Male Lead Villain from the Start? No, I’m the Moonlight in Her Heart! 开局反派男二？不！是白月光啊！ [System + Multiple Heroines + Yandere + CEO + Campus Belle + Love-Brained + Twins + Best Actress + ...] With a bang, Ye Linyuan thought he had encountered the light, but in reality, he had a close encounter with the headlights of a heavy truck. He successfully transmigrated into a world of female-oriented angst novels, all rolled into one. Now, he's the fake young master who was switched at birth in a true-and-fake young master story, the long-lost first love of a billion-dollar cold CEO in a s 29.8kReads5.9Score3.1k14d adds
- 66 Do Not Disturb the Bookshop, Living People Keep Out 勿扰书店，生人勿扰 [Just started getting ratings, so a low score is perfectly normal~] [Supernatural suspense + evil gods + no female lead, no System + a touch of Lovecraftian horror + everyday life in a shop + episodic stories] A bookstore in an abandoned underground mall, a young but peculiar shopkeeper, a group of employees known as the Weird, a world haunted by evil gods and strange beings, and a story steeped in cause and effect, where every deed has its consequences. 324Reads8.4Score10314d adds
- 67 Wayfarer Between Yin and Yang 阴阳行者 The ultimate truths of heaven and earth are two: death and parting, and the way between yin and yang. I protect the living in the world of light, driving out evil and subduing demons until every specter is vanquished. I guide the dead across the Yellow Springs, and set foot upon the Bridge of Helplessness without hesitation. A traveler between the realms of yin and yang, I bear the balance of life and death on my shoulders. Have you ever seen an old sheep knock at your door, or a paper figure sp 268Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 68 As a Merchant, Isn't It Only Natural for Me to Show Up Anywhere? 作为商人，出现在哪都很合理吧？ [No heroine] [Protagonists randomly appear on the map] [System] [Adventure] [Travel] [Leisure] Chu Ming binds himself to a merchant System, and after the System does its thing... An exhausted, thirsty adventurer trudges through the desert, thinking he’s about to give up, when Chu Ming passes by and asks, “Hey, want to buy something?” The adventurer stares at the dazzling array of goods Chu Ming is carrying and slowly types a question mark: “?” A squad is stranded in a silent jungle, running out 4.1kReads8.7Score61514d adds
- 69 The Greatest Pawnshop Under Heaven 天字第一當 By day, this pawnshop looks utterly ordinary, but it has one strange rule: anyone who pawns an item or buys an unredeemed one gets a free fortune reading. Stranger still, once midnight comes, the shop welcomes all kinds of bizarre visitors… 3.5kReads8.9Score38414d adds
- 70 One Horror a Day 一天一个惊悚 One terrifying tale every day, and a different world each time. Just because you haven't seen it from in front of your phone doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Enough chatter. See you in the book, everyone. 7Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 71 I Won’t Survive the Night 活不过今夜 At some point, a strange old beggar showed up in our neighborhood. The strange thing was, he never spent the money people gave him. He’d burn it or destroy it instead. Then one day, the woman downstairs was burned to death, and the butcher was brutally murdered. That was when I finally realized the truth. He wasn’t begging for money. He was begging for lives! 1.1kReads8.2Score10214d adds
- 72 Paralyzed from Head to Toe, the System Makes Me Walk Five Kilometers a Day 全身瘫痪，系统让我每天五公里 [System, gacha, science and technology to strengthen the nation] Good news: I've transmigrated! Bad news: I'm paralyzed from the neck down! System: Host, please complete your daily 5 km task! Ye Qinghe: System, why don't you take a look at me first? System: ... Ye Qinghe never expected that a single skill, Mathematical Prodigy, would make him a top mathematician. What about his other skills? Suona Grandmaster! World record holder in shot put and javelin! King of racing! … Things seem to be 31.2kReads7.3Score3.5k14d adds
- 73 After My Daughter Disowned Me, I Made Her Best Friends into Superstars 被女儿断亲，我捧她闺蜜们成巨星 [The male lead, Liu Shanjun, is 38 and a middle-aged uncle, so if that bothers you, don’t read. Entertainment-industry System + songwriting and acting + feel-good story, no suffering for the male lead] Liu Shanjun, a 28-year-old owner of an MCN influencer agency, transmigrates into the body of another Liu Shanjun, a 38-year-old alcoholic who drank himself into a stroke and paralysis. Looking at “his” own wasted first half of life, Liu Shanjun bursts into tears. He never got to enjoy a single ble 4.8kReads8.1Score43414d adds
- 74 The Tribes Face Catastrophe, So Why Has the Male Lead Gone Off the Rails? 万族劫难，这男主咋崩坏了 In the novel about the calamity of ten thousand races, the human race is in dire straits, but Chen Feng believes that with the protagonist around, everything will work out. Besides, he's activated the System for Better Births and Better Upbringing, and he still has to go home and have children. To avoid fighting the male lead for a woman, he has no choice but to start by pursuing her cousin. [Ding! You've successfully continued your bloodline. Reward: 100 million bottles of Supreme Essence-Nouri 5.6kReads8.1Score48814d adds
- 75 Myriad Worlds Mall: Trading Across the Heavens 万界商城：商通万界 [No female lead + fanfiction spanning the Myriad Worlds + farming + war + construction + management] Zhang Tianyu transmigrates to Blue Star and unexpectedly obtains the Myriad Worlds Mall System. From the start, the System gives him a sub-System and a continent-sized Myriad Worlds Mall floating in space. With the Myriad Worlds Mall System, Zhang Tianyu distributes City Lord Tokens throughout the Myriad Worlds and opens trade across them all. He uses resources from various worlds to develop the 3.1kReads7.4Score15314d adds
- 76 The Iron Fan, Famous Detective of Bianjing: Strange Tales of the Song Dynasty 汴京名捕铁扇子：大宋诡事录 At night, an empty coffin floats on the Bian River, and water ghosts come to claim lives. Apparitions haunt a mansion, and ghosts knock at the door on rainy nights. Qi Guan Shanyu, the youngest renowned constable of the Six Gates, known as the “Iron Fan,” joins forces with an adversary more terrifying than ghosts: the human heart. A coffin rises from the water by itself, and the dead man’s face wears an eerie smile… Bianjing is in an uproar! Each case is more bizarre and mind-bending than the la 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 77 A Fading Lamp Shines on the Lonely Dead 残灯照孤冥 (Mystery + supernatural + no female lead) (Ghost case files + Taoist arts) (Tomato Original) The male lead is born under the fate of a lone star of calamity, destined to walk alone. A dying lamp lights the lonely darkness, and that darkness lights me in turn. 331Reads—Score—14d adds
- 78 I Inherited a Joss Stick and Candle Shop 我继承了一家香烛店 Bai Linlin had just graduated when she was involved in a car accident that had been planned long in advance. After being discharged from the hospital, she had to use a wheelchair for a while, so she decided to take over the incense and candle shop her grandmother had left her. The shop served both the living and the dead, and business was far busier than Bai Linlin had expected. Especially business from the underworld. Fortunately, it was right up the alley of Bai Linlin, who came from a family 105Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 79 The Horror Supply Shop 恐怖用品店 An adult shop in a cemetery, and a brick-thick guide to running an adult shop. I started running a bizarre little store. My very first customer wanted to buy my human skin... 265Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 80 The Thousand-Year-Old Snake Wife 千年蛇妻 [First-person POV + One Female Lead + Maoshan Disciple + Cultivation Prodigy + No System + No Immortality Cultivation] [A passionate romance between a human and a demon] [A mission passed down across thousands of years] [Wild ideas spanning ancient and modern times] In the rural Northeast, all sorts of eerie stories are always being told. But with my unusual constitution, I refuse to believe in the supernatural, so I insist on going to play in the haunted hills behind the village. There, I run i 14.4kReads8.9Score1.1k14d adds
- 81 The Eerie Coffin Bearers 诡抬棺 Nine peaks, a sea of blood, mountains of bones... Murderous danger lurks everywhere. Every step is fraught with peril, and I never know how much longer I'll survive. It wasn't until I deciphered the nursery rhyme I'd heard when I became someone's disciple that I uncovered a shocking secret... 63Reads9.0Score—14d adds
- 82 Collecting Phones Door to Door: A Critical Hit on a Wild Girl from the Start 上门收手机，开局暴击精神小妹 Zhou Kang runs a used-phone shop and unexpectedly awakens a Career System. By improving his proficiency, he can earn rewards. But why are the careers the System gives him all so weird? Door-to-door phone collector, piano tuner, locksmith... His first career is door-to-door phone collector. “Bro, I’ll get my friend to step outside. Could you give me another two hundred?” Thanks to the Career System, Zhou Kang meets a sharp-tongued, youthful party girl, a piano teacher with mature charm, a pure an 16.1kReads7.2Score1.8k14d adds
- 83 After the Immortal Realm Fell, I Took in a Fallen Fairy 仙界覆灭后，我收留了陨落仙子 After the demonic tide invaded, the Immortal Realm was destroyed and the immortals fell. The standing of demons and immortals was suddenly reversed. In the eyes of the demons, immortals drained of spiritual energy were worthless. So demon merchants brought them to the market, hoping to get spirit stones from wealthy buyers... But to Lin Heng, these fallen immortals held limitless possibilities! Year 153 of the Demon Calendar. The first thing Lin Heng needs to do is go to the market and buy his f 39.2kReads7.6Score11.4k14d adds
- 84 Mecha Girl World: From the Start, I Contracted the School Beauty Teacher 机娘世界：开局契约校花老师 [Mecha] + [Gender Swap] + [All Kinds of Classic Scenes] In this world, women can transform into mecha: there are aircraft girls, car girls, carrier girls, and missile girls, while men awaken as Pilots. Mu Chen transmigrates to this world, forms a contract with a cold and aloof beauty from his school from the start, and activates an overpowered System. Exclusive talent, Highest Authority: Access any Mecha Girl. Exclusive talent, Cybertronian Heart: Possesses an unlimited energy supply. While othe 8.1kReads7.5Score1.1k14d adds
- 85 The Game Invades, and I Become the Old Uncle of Another World! 游戏入侵，我成异世界老舅了！ [Old-school writing, ensemble cast, romantic rivalry, multiple heroines, wooden protagonist, memory playback] Zhou Wan has spent twenty years transmigrated, always believing he had crossed over in his own body. He never imagined his original body had been in a vegetative state all along! After dying in another world, he returns to this body, only to discover that he can still use the supernatural powers from that world! This time, he’s going to become even stronger! Looking at his malnourished e 33.6kReads8.4Score4.7k14d adds
- 86 Ghost-Hunting Yin-Yang Master 捉鬼阴阳师 On the day I was born, the clear sky suddenly filled with lightning and thunder. A bolt struck a tree in our yard, and everyone in the village decided my birth was an ill omen. They all kept their distance. One villager accidentally offended me, and that night he mysteriously hanged himself. The body could only be taken down if someone knelt before me. On the day of his funeral, his brother died a violent death and the coffin fell to the ground. That was how the whole story began… 214Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 87 I Transmigrated and Inherited an Auction House: You’re Selling Mystery Boxes in Shipping Containers? 穿越继承拍卖行，你整盲盒集装箱 [Cultivation-World Auction House + Mystery-Box Shipping Containers + Mostly Slice of Life] [This isn't just one auction after another. It's a series of stories centered around the auction house. If that's not your thing, proceed with caution.] “Manager Su! It's over! Our auction house is really finished!” A rather portly man was sobbing and sniveling as he threw himself in front of another man. “Stop making such a racket. You're crying away all the good fortune our auction house has,” Su Ran sai 5.5kReads8.2Score58414d adds
- 88 Spirit Village 灵村 Thrills and the supernatural! There's an ancient village called Lingzhuang, also known as Bagua Village. I was born there. Lingzhuang is always shrouded in an atmosphere of terror: Enormous pythons, centipedes, black spiders, strange birds, and ferocious beasts roam about, attacking people... Lingzhuang is also rife with strange tales and bizarre happenings: A female ghost haunts the village; a cave in Longmian Mountain holds an arsenal from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; a mysterious master live 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 89 A Lonely Ghost Goes on a Blind Date 孤魂野鬼来相亲 A former top student returns to her hometown in disgrace and takes over her grandmother’s shabby, run-down matchmaking house. With a huge debt to pay off, she has no choice but to roll up her sleeves and get to work. Good grief! What kind of ghosts are showing up for these blind dates? The head of a ghostly date rolls right off. Terrifying-looking men and women ghosts want her to edit them into handsome men and beautiful women. Her best friend has been dismembered, yet still asks Su Yinran to fi 33Reads8.3Score—14d adds
- 90 The Maoshan Coffin-Raiser 茅山升棺人 From the moment I was born, someone secretly plotted against me, making my mother give birth prematurely and changing my birth date. My birth chart clashed with my parents' fates, and they both died on the very day I was born. I vowed to find the culprit, and in time became a Maoshan coffin-raiser! Coffin-raising is the practice of relocating graves. After death, people should be buried in a place with good feng shui to protect their descendants. But some ancestors are buried in malevolent place 1.3kReads9.0Score10214d adds
- 91 Matriarchy: The Handsome Boy from Rural Tokyo 女尊：东京乡下的美少年 [Matriarchal world + does not affect readability] + [mature older sister] + [ice-cold skin and jade-like bones] + [succubus] Also known as: I’m only responsible for saving people, not cleaning up afterward Reborn in a matriarchal world, Xingye Zhen obtains the Justiceful Handsome Boy System, also known as the Rescue System. Day 1 sign-in: bright eyes Day 2 sign-in: natural fragrance Day 3 sign-in: icy skin Day 4… Xingye Zhen looks at the mature, refined older sister standing before him, rea 5.2kReads7.0Score41314d adds
- 92 Corpse's Fate 尸命 I have three masters, surnamed Li, Wang, and Xu. But my story begins with someone borrowing thirty years of my lifespan... 841Reads8.8Score10014d adds
- 93 After Transmigrating, I Secretly Move into the Heroine's Home First 穿越后，我先偷偷住进女主家 She transmigrates into the world of a novel centered on a strong heroine, becoming a minor character in the early chapters. The male lead is due to enter the heroine’s family as her live-in son-in-law under an agreement in one year. Gu Qingfan looks out at the thousand-acre estate, then back at his bare-walled home… A place that huge, and nobody would notice if he snuck in and lived there for a year, right? Then, a year later, he can leave before the male lead arrives! Wait… Since when were the 11.1kReads7.8Score78014d adds
- 94 After I Became a Fake Young Master, All My Older Stepsisters Became Yandere 我成假少爷后，干姐姐全成了病娇 After Chu Xun became the fake young master, he thought the Su family would throw him out. To his surprise, the Su sisters all grew excited. Then things gradually spiraled out of control... Chu Xun: Wait, aren’t I the fake young master? Why have you all turned into yanderes? 102.1kReads7.1Score11.8k14d adds
- 95 The Midnight General Store 午夜杂货铺 “Welcome to the Underworld General Store. Here, you’ll find merchandise unlike anything else, along with extraordinary service…” I run a midnight general store and work as a professional spirit walker, moving between the worlds of yin and yang. In the pitch-black night, I deal in things that must never be spoken of. Then one day, a strange customer dressed head to toe in red came in, and that was when the real horror began… 7.4kReads8.4Score57414d adds
- 96 League of Legends: Reborn as a Korean Streamer, I Take the Internet by Storm 联盟：重生韩国女主播，爆火全网 [League of Legends + Livestreaming + Gender-Bender + 1v1 + Invincible + No Romance + No Pro Play] Li Youli transmigrates into the body of a Korean League of Legends streamer and discovers that, aside from leaving her an unbelievably gorgeous face and a stunning figure, the previous owner left her nothing but trouble. Two months of unpaid rent, harassment from her group-streaming teammates, threats from a chaebol boss… In her previous life, Li Youli was the strongest jungler in the LPL. Now she’s 2.7kReads7.6Score15014d adds
- 97 Mysterious Curse 1 神秘诅咒1 [Supernatural Mystery + Urban Cultivation + Folk Taboos + A Passionate Coming-of-Age Story] Enter a sinister world concealed beneath the bustle of the modern city! I have no control over life or death. My name is Zhang Wen. I thought getting into college would let me escape that bleak village in the southwest. Then my grandfather died suddenly, with these words written in cinnabar on his palm: "Dig three feet down at the southeast corner of the wall." I unearthed a bloodstained notebook. Its fir 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 98 The Yin-Yang Artisan 阴阳诡匠 [Author's note: This book has no System and isn't mindless. Most of the events… really happened. Do not try any of the customs or taboos described here! Any consequences are your own responsibility!] It's better to offend the King of Hell than a poor carpenter. When you've worked as a carpenter long enough, you'll inevitably encounter all sorts of terrifying, bizarre accidents and stories. Sometimes, we're part of them ourselves. I used to think my grandfather was just an eccentric old carpenter 1.1kReads6.3Score10214d adds
- 99 I Just Merged with the Herrscher of Thunder, and You're Calling Me a Fake Heiress? 刚融合雷律，你就说我是假千金？ [Strong female lead + strong male lead (a prison-set ending comes in handy) + abilities from game and anime characters + fake and real heiresses + high-martial world + world of monsters] (For now, the abilities are mainly Raiden Mei, Acheron, and Fu Hua. The story will lean toward Honkai, with abilities from a few other anime as well.) The pacing may be a little rushed at first, but it’ll drag later (stifled laugh). (Fusion level doesn’t affect cultivation, only the strength and number of abilit 2.8kReads7.5Score28514d adds
- 100 The Fragrance of Corpses for Ten Miles 十里尸香 Most people receive gifts that are heartwarming or romantic. Even if they aren't a surprise, they're at least well-intentioned. But the gift I received when I turned twenty was a very real shock, and a curse. 1.9kReads8.2Score16514d adds
