The Plump Immortal

(The new book, My Adventures with an Interstellar Handsome God, is out now.) The heroes in storybooks always get a peerless cultivation manual as children, then overcome countless trials to master peerless martial arts. Lin Fan looked down at the slightly moldy book in her hands. She'd gotten hers as a child too, but something seemed to have gone wrong... She'd also endured countless hardships, but all she ever did was search for the next volume of the incomplete manual. What a rip-off.

Fortunately, years later, Lin Fan finally stood atop the clouds, gazing down at all living things. She thought: The holes you've fallen into will eventually be filled in by Father Time. The only question is how many more you'll fall into along the way.

Lin Fan didn't know how many little and big holes she'd fallen into. She only knew she was still falling into one enormous hole she could never climb out of. How depressing.

"Could you let me skip this one time, Senior Brother?"