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Fate probably also wanted to say: How novel, is laozi an artificial intelligence that creates travel guides for people? How inexplicable.
So it didn’t give these two unreliable people anything good.
Captain Luo, as a virtuous and upstanding policeman, had never refined his gambling skills and had a dark expression on his face.
So this adventure was a very thrilling one.
The dice led them to various places that aspired to become tourist attractions with no attractions, allowing them to experience the imagination of the general public.
The two of them stayed at a “haunted tourist attraction,” which was an unfinished building that was rebuilt based on local ghost stories and also provided accommodation. Guests who stayed there could experience the haunting of a ghost in the middle of the night. But Captain Luo, who went to bed early and woke up early, was already asleep when the ghost came to haunt them. In his half asleep daze, he had even almost mistaken the NPC dressed as a ghost for a thief.
The dice also led them to a mysterious little temple of an unknown origin, where a group of gods who had just come back from working part time in a circus were enshrined. It was unknown who had complained too loudly and angered a certain…… god, but when they left the temple the next day, the dice took them to the mountains and left them to fend for themselves.
Fortunately, there is always a way out. A villager on the mountain happened to be holding a wedding. Fei Du borrowed a piece of red paper and folded a red envelope on the spot. With a beautiful wave of his hand, he became a guest of the Fang family and brought Luo Wenzhou along to have a meal. During the ceremony, Luo Wenzhou was in charge of making merry with his third uncle and other relatives. After the ceremony, his fertilizer hauling second uncle happily hauled them to the nearest county seat…… although everything in life is unpredictable, people must learn to be flexible and make do with what they have.
After this disaster, the subsequent situation became normal. The two of them were now staying in a small time known for their hot springs. They wandered around the streets and alleys in search of food, which is where they accidentally came across President Fei’s fated dumplings.
Luo Wenzhou watched as the other finished the majority of the plate, feeling inexplicably relieved.
“Let’s go,” he said, “One more roll, then we’ll head on home.”
Then, accompanied by the cheerful country tune in the car, Luo Dark-Expression happily danced all the way from the national highway to the provincial highway and from the provincial highway to the rural road. The rural road became a twisted village road, with not a soul in sight. In the end, even the farmlands and wild graves disappeared. At the end of the dirt road, only nameless hills and vast wilderness remained.
Luo Wenzhou pushed his sunglasses up and took a look— damn, he thought that the “last stop” would be at most a suburban farm stay. Turns out it’s surviving in the wilderness!
The two of them looked at each other and spoke at the same time.
Luo Wenzhou: “President Fei, your plan really is flawless.”
Fei Du: “Captain Luo, your dice rolling skills are like no other.”
Their voices overlapped. Luo Wenzhou thought internally, great, here comes the blame-shifting skit that all adults love to watch. If only they had brought Luo Yiguo along, they would have all the props.
He was about to demonstrate his “adult” proficiency when Fei Du changed his words in an instant: “Alright, it’s all my fault. So shixiong, what should we do now?”
The man surnamed Fei was leaning against the car window with an innocent smile, looking more hateful than Luo Yiguo who broke a cup and showed off at the crime scene. On his face was an arrogant expression of “and what about it?”
The incident started when Captain Luo was about to take his annual leave.
Typically, when companies issue annual leaves, they would pick a time during which they’re not busy and everyone would take turns. He hadn’t had a proper vacation in years, since there was no reason for him to take one. He had been a single dog before. If he wandered around, he would eventually become a single stray dog and even have to ask people to come over and help out. He’d rather just lay at home.
Fei Du was a “frequent flyer,” but most of his trips were business trips. Occasionally they’d be vacations, but even those were for social purposes, which made them performative in nature.
So when Luo Wenzhou discussed going on vacation with him, the two of them stared at each other for a long time. They saw the confusion on each other’s faces, which had become the elephant in the room.
Going abroad wouldn’t do. Luo Wenzhou and his colleague all had to file a report if they wanted to go abroad for personal reasons, which was too much trouble…… besides, President Fei’s crappy idea of “renting an island” sounded like a violation of discipline. More remote places in the country wouldn’t do either. In the case of an emergency call from the team, there would be delays in returning.
Suppose you want to go to a popular tourist city, only to find that all the hotels in those places have shares owned by someone surnamed Fei. Once you arrive, you’ll become the boss that’s there to survey the market conditions and inspect work quality.
Luo Wenzhou suddenly realized that being this rich also came with its own set of troubles.
“This won’t do, you better compensate me,” he decided to take the first shot, “Use your brain, President Fei, and compensate me with the joys of travel.”
President Fei…… because his brain was heavy, he often left it in the office and rarely brought it home unless there was something to do. Upon hearing this, he struggled to assess the difficulty of this task: “What kind of joys do you want?”
The word “joys” seemed to change meaning when they came from his mouth. Luo Wenzhou, as a conservative elder, strangely fell silent for a long while: “Just come up with a novel experience that I’ve never had, how long has it been since your wounds got better? Don’t always think those dirty thoughts!”
Fei Du graciously forgave a certain someone for shifting the blame for his own misdeeds. After thinking for a while, he felt that this matter did not need an organ as advanced as the brain, a single intestine would be enough. And so he shamelessly put on the airs of “Come along with me, it’s definitely going to be something new.” Luo Wenzhou didn’t even question it. He packed their luggage according to the length of their trip and followed him into the car.
“Road trip?” Captain Luo, who was not afraid of being sold, asked while fastening his seatbelt. Although he didn’t understand what was novel about a road trip, he wasn’t picky. There would be no strangers around, plus it was nice for the two of them to be alone along the way, so he happily asked, “Where to?”
Fei Du: “I don’t know.”
As he said this, he handed over a dice and an instruction manual with rules.
Luo Wenzhou: ?
“Whichever direction you roll, that’s where we’ll drive.” President Fei smirked at him through the rearview mirror, “You leave it up to fate, and I leave it up to you.”
Luo Wenzhou: “……”
Wait no, how could one be so lazy and be so shameless about it?
Utterly outrageous!
Fei Du: “Have you ever experienced an adventure like this before?”
Luo Wenzhou: “…… Nope.”
After all, the Beggars’ Union was a criminal organization that had long been banned. He had never joined this organization.
Fei Du asked with complete confidence: “Is it not novel?”
The whole thing about being a picky eater was later denied by Fei Du.
He claimed that there was nothing he wouldn't eat, but rather he simply has preferences— everyone has preferences, this was very natural. As for the creature he described in the cafeteria that time, he was just joking with Luo Wenzhou.
Luo Wenzhou was at a loss for words: “Do I look like I'm laughing?”
“I'm sorry,” Fei Du took his cheap apology and packaged it carefully so that it seemed like the whole world couldn't afford it. “Perhaps I acted irrationally at the time. I unconsciously knew who I was fated to end up with at the time. Acting so childishly, wasn't it all to get your attention?”
Luo Wenzhou: “......”
He sometimes really hated himself. He was well aware of what kind of person Fei Du was, yet he was always led astray. He was simply automatically fooled.
How disappointing, how very disappointing!
But then again, Fei Du wasn’t talking nonsense. After all, he didn’t have any allergies nor did he have any strict dietary restrictions. Moreover, Fei Du seemed interested in all types of sensory experiences. Sometimes, even though he clearly knows that it’s something he doesn’t like to eat, he would still take a piece of it from Luo Wenzhou’s bowl with his chopsticks to try to understand it.
Before Captain Luo could eat a meal at home, it had to go through two rounds of “security checks.” He had to first let President Guo sniff it, then let President Fei take a taste. In the olden days, not even the emperor went through so many steps when testing for poison, so he could be considered to be most fortunate.
That was beyond the point. When it came to Fei Du, whether or not he liked a dish couldn’t be determined from his attitude, but it was reflected in his appetite. If it was according to his tastes, he would act like an ordinary young man. If it wasn’t according to his tastes, he would make all kinds of excuses like “I have an arrangement later,” or “I had a slice of cake from a colleague’s birthday celebration at work,” becoming something like Luo Yiguo…… not that he intends to mock President Guo.
This Feishir, at his big age, can’t be changed. Luo Wenzhou had no choice but to memorize each of these things, while silently coming up with ways to best keep him healthy by providing him with all the nutrition he needs.
Therefore, one can imagine how shocked Luo Wenzhou felt when he saw Fei Du take a steamed dumpling from his plate, take a bite and then, after thinking for a while, prepare to ask the waiter to bring another serving.
Fei Du was eating two servings of dumplings for the New Year!
They were currently in a crowded little restaurant, so packed with people that many of them had to sit on small stools outside to eat.
The small store specialized in malatang. The business was very good, so good that it had people from the neighboring cities driving hundreds of kilometers to line up. The owner then started shamelessly promoting “bundle packages”— if a customer wants to eat the store’s malatang, they could, as long as they also order slower moving inventory, such as the plate of dumplings in front of Luo Wenzhou.
The dumplings were filled with minced Cantonese sausage and bacon, which was very strange. It might be the strange result of the owner randomly grabbing ingredients, yet it actually caught the attention of President Fei’s unique taste.
“W-wait a second,” Luo Wenzhou hurried to call Fei Du to a stop, shoving the plate over at the speed of being afraid of someone going back on his word, “Don’t order anymore, they’re all yours!”
There’s no need to ask for another plate, it’s much too harmful to his spirit…… although this was not the only thing that had harmed his spirit along the way.
Title: [Unlimited] What is it like being a ghost in a horror story?
Author: Guess who I am
Genre: Spin off - Romance - TV - Modern setting
Tags (up to four): TV fanfic, supernatural, rebirth, unlimited flow
Serialization date: 20Y3/3/17
Licensing information: Not licensed
Status: Serializing
Award: Groundbreaking (Rising Star Ranking)
Synopsis:
In the eighteenth year after my death, I got caught up in a scheme.
PS: Midnight Feast had its grand finale last week, did you guys catch it, my dears? Anyway, this distinguished VIP is ready for the second viewing! Xiaoyu-meimei's acting as Tangtang was so cute, she definitely has a bright future! A work from a small fan, centered around the heroine, supernatural paro, my dears, please support me and express your thoughts~
PPS: The content has little to do with the original plot, so those who have never watched the TV series can read it without worry.
Main character: Tang Guo, water ghost
Chap1 Prologue
Update time: 20Y3-3-17 12:00:00
Summary: Eighteen years after my death, am I...... breathing?
Text:
After drowning, I became a water ghost.
They say, only those who are obsessed with it will not reincarnate after death. They also say, leave when you're supposed to leave. Persistently entangled in the mortal realm for three lifetimes, is it not just wronging others and yourself? I feel that what they say is right. Sometimes I also preach to the other ghosts like this, but everyone knows the logical truth. When I think about myself, I still feel unwilling for no reason.
For what reason am I alone so miserable? What have I done that is so against heaven and reason, that I did not have a good life, nor a good death in the end?
But the Netherworld is more unreasonable than the mortal realm. I can't even think about it. Thinking just brings distracting thoughts. Either way, if my beliefs are not aligned, I cannot reincarnate. I would have to stay in the water, capturing a living person to be my "scapegoat" to escape.
Don't ask why, how should I know? Anyways, only we drowned people have this task, other ghosts don't have to do it. There is a hierarchy of distain for shitting and farting when we are alive. But there are still a variety of ways to die, how unlucky!
However, my conscience is still intact and I'm still rational. I really don't want to do those immoral things, so I chose to become a "vegetarian ghost."
This means, I only drag those who want to die, and are about to die, into the water, helping them and helping me, a win-win situation.
Unfortunately, ideals must be broken.
Every time I see those so-called "in complete despair" people, I wait beside them longingly. But as soon as I pull their feet a little, they start to kick their feet hastily, and some even scream for help. In the end, not only do I fail my task, but I also have to help rescue them. I can't tell whether I'm a ghost or a dolphin, which is outrageous.
But flowers have their blooming season, foods have a shelf life, and the water ghost mission also has a time limit. Legend has it that we have an eighteen-year death limit. If I can't catch a scapegoat within eighteen years, I will turn into foam like the Little Mermaid and submerge in the stinky sewer, unable to be reincarnated.
I didn't take it seriously before. After all, eighteen years is a long time and I've never heard of a loser who couldn't catch a scapegoat in eighteen years. Yet starting from the end of last year, I, who has no nose, suddenly felt like I was slowly rotting and turning smelly. I then realized I was the loser from the legend.
Time was running out, and I later realized that I was getting angry because of my anxiety. But I'm a northern ghost. The water here freezes over in the winter, even the shore is cold. Dogs don't come to pee by the shore, much less people.
The twelfth lunar month, I struggled for a long time, and decided to give up my vegetarian diet. Regardless of whether the other person is alive or dead, I would pull them down as long as they jumped in the water, regardless of whether they regret it or not. After finally making up my mind, no one committed suicide in the twelfth lunar month.
The first lunar month, I got anxious. Using any means necessary, I carved a hole under the ice, preparing to catch anyone skating on outdoors ice. I was done with it, not caring for whether people died or lived.
Yet it turns out no one went ice skating!
After the Lantern Festival, I had no choice but to become a complete freak. I couldn't care less about propriety, justice, and integrity. I wanted a scapegoat!
I was prepared to use the seaweed to drag a living person from the shore as soon as the ice melted. Who knew that when spring had just begun, the damn municipal government would install iron fences by the water again!
Gosh!
Is this my retribution for being a good ghost for eighteen years?
It was getting warmer day by day, and I got more anxious day by day. Entering March, I was nearly in despair because the date of my death was March 17th eighteen years ago. Who knew it would be my death day again eighteen years later!
I got less and less clear-headed; day by day, I felt like I was gradually melting into this pool of stagnant water, and the seaweed no longer obeyed my orders.
Just like eighteen years ago, I drowned again, only this time it was longer and more torturous.
Right when I was at the end of my rope, half dead, I heard a familiar "crash" sound, and the waves brought the smell of life!
I revived like dying embers, almost crying with joy. Someone climbed over the railing and fell into the water!
Soon enough, I rushed over without hesitation, like a starving person who saw a large cake. I didn't even see clearly what person looked like. I impatiently weaved the seaweed around the person's feet, pulling the person down greedily and desperately.
Die, I'm begging you! Just die, I can only live if you die!
However, very quickly, I felt that something was not right. This person didn't resist at all. When I pulled them, they fell straight into the water, sinking like a rock.
Fuck, I thought to myself, they couldn't have already died right?
Then god really is messing with me!
I quickly went closer, only then seeing that the person who had been dragged down by the seaweed was a woman. She had very long hair, was of average height, very thin, almost as if she were paper. When soaked in water, she looked more like a ghost than me.
Suddenly, she opened her eyes, staring straight at me.
That's okay, she was still alive, but before I could relax, I was overwhelmed with horror.
In those pupils...... in those pupils was actually my reflection!
I haven't looked in a mirror since I died, and I came face to face with my own "exceptionally beautiful" face without warning. I was almost scared out of my mind, freezing for a moment. But at that moment, I felt those eyes getting bigger and bigger, getting closer and closer to me......
Then my vision went dark, a long-lost weight pressing down on my head, and cold smelly water rushed into my nose and mouth.
I'm a ghost, what nose and mouth?
But drowning was too painful, and I had no room to think about it at all. I instinctively kicked my legs, kicking away the seaweeds that were tangled all over my body. I struggled towards the shore, climbing up with all my strength, then sneezed loudly.
Wait a minute, I...... sneezed?
Eighteen years after my death, am I...... breathing?
I lowered my head blankly, looking at my dirty hands, dumbfounded.
I seem to have taken over her body.
Us water ghosts...... have this ability?
This woman hadn't eaten in an unknown amount of time; her stomach was pressed against her chest. When the cold wind by the water blew, I felt the long-forgotten hunger and cold.
I was confused at the time: Was she dead or alive? Am I dead or alive?
What exactly was going on with us?
Before I could figure it out, a flashlight swept over me. Someone had spotted me...... her...... ah, ah someone, someone, it's too weird.
The person who discovered me was a security guard who was patrolling at night. He had a very loud voice, being able to be heard from two zhang. People who were walking their dogs, night joggers, people practicing square dancing...... all appeared out of nowhere. He had attracted all of them. A lot of people surrounded me and asked questions.
I haven't spoken to anyone in eighteen years, and I was still struggling to find my voice. But at this moment, my tongue moved on its own.
It was like a squirming worm. I felt sick, subconsciously opening my mouth, and heard myself making a sound.
"I drank too much, and accidentally fell down......"
"No need...... no need to call the police...... I live nearby...... the community right there."
I got goosebumps all over my body, shutting my mouth from shock, and the thin and trembling words came to an abrupt stop.
Being struck by five thunders could not even describe the panic I felt at the moment, but the heart in this body's chest was beating calmly, completely out of sync with my mind.
The original owner of this body wasn't dead; she was still here, just stuck with me!
Two souls controlling one body at the same time was a lot worse than a "three legged race" where two people share a leg. If two people stumble around each other in a three legged race, what about our current situation?
The strange thing was, I can control this body rather smoothly. I can speak when I want to speak, and shut up when I want to. I can't feel her panic at all, but if I stop paying attention and loosen my jaw, she will automatically reply to the people around her, and even stand up on her own.
I bit her tongue harshly, tears welling up in my eyes, but she didn't resist at all!
I felt as if I was driving a car on a steep slope; it stops when I step on the breaks, and it drives automatically when I take my foot off!
She wasn't panicked, wasn't afraid of me, didn't reject me, didn't stop me, only holding those unknown motives staring at me...... quietly in the dark.
I should have jumped into the water and downed her immediately, but there were too many spectators, and there were even a few meddling old men and women who said they wanted to call the police, making me break into cold sweat from fear. I'm a pussy 1! I'm scared of light, fire, and Yang energy. There are so many warm living people surrounding me, and I'm already suffocating. I'm afraid that if a few more citizens were call over, would I not just die on the spot?
I was also panicking at the time, only knowing how to repeatedly incoherently say to not call the police, I can just go home.
A passerby couple recognized the original owner of the body, saying that "I" was a resident in their building, and they wanted to give me a ride home.
What skills we water ghosts have can only be used in the water where we drowned, unable to be transferred to other bodies of water. This broken body was both thin and weak; I became panicked and short of breath when I walked to fast, completely unable to get away from these two living people. I had no choice but to be "escorted" by them into a building.
Fortunately, the original owner's body automatically pressed the elevator floor. It wasn't until I got off the elevator that I got rid of the two nosy people, ready to sneak downstairs and return to my territory as soon as they left. Who knew that the second the elevator doors closed, and before I even had the chance to press the button again, a door would suddenly open behind me.
My...... no, the heart in this body of mine thumped, a chill running down my spine.
A head popped out of the open door, a woman, appearing to be twenty-four or five? Or twenty-eight/nine?
I couldn't tell. Her makeup was half done, her face as pale as a freshly painted wall. She had long curly hair, which was dyed reddish brown, and braided into two fluffy braids. Her facial features were memorable, and her figure was also rather nice. I couldn't find fault with her, but she wasn't good-looking at all, because her eyes were sharp and cold, like a snake. As soon as I saw her, I felt the original owner's body tense up, trembling, and what little energy she had almost disappeared.
The woman frowned, dragging me into the apartment: "What madness did you get into, looking like this?"
Her nails were harder and sharper than her head. I could clearly see that those wasn't a hand at all, but a claw covered in human skin.
The claws were arid, cold, and powerful. The strong scent of rose water hit me, hiding the fishy and putrid smell.
Just what monster was this?!
This weird girl could see water ghosts in the water, and there was a yaoguai by her that was not easy to deal with. What on earth have I provoked?!
Also...... we water ghosts typically cannot possess living people. So in this current situation, is it me who has possessed her or...... or has she captured me?!
She did it on purpose, no wonder why she wasn't worried about being possessed by a ghost at all!
"I told you to make a phone call, did you make it yet?" The female monster pulled me into the apartment, leaving me by the door of the bathroom. Then she turned around, continuing to put makeup on while facing the mirror, as if she didn't notice my presence.
I knew that I would never be able to beat her in a fight. Out of fear of being exposed, I didn't dare to speak, hoping the original owner would speak, but the original owner also refused to make a peep.
"Can you do anything?" The female monster seemed used to the original owner's silence, and didn't mind. After putting on lipstick, her gaze drifted from the mirror, and landed on me. She glanced at me, then said with disgust, "Why do you get uglier the older you get?"
The original owner and I, one ghost, one human, continued to not speak.
"Get yourself cleaned up." The female monster with boundless power gave cold orders, "Wash up and put on a facial mask. I'm taking you to dinner with people tomorrow. If you keep acting like that, you better watch out."
I saw faint traces of blood on her teeth and shivered. Before I could think more about it, my legs dragged me to the bedroom towards the south like a ghost, and closed the door.
Temporarily out of sight of the female monster, I breathed a sigh of relief and leaned against the door, vaguely feeling as if I had forgotten something.
There were no lights on in the dark room. At present, I was attracted to the only source of light. There was a digital alarm clock on the bedside table. It was ticking, displaying that the current time was March 16, 20:08.
My mind buzzed, and I recalled: the 17th was less than four hours away!
There are less than four hours left. If I cannot escape, I will fall into despair!
Comments on this chapter (by reply time):
[Little Miss Dragon] 0 min just now
Newcomer topping the list, preserving courtesy.
I haven't seen a supernatural work on the list for a long time, good luck big shot!
[Caterpillar No 3] 0 min just now
It's a bit scary, not my type of story, sorry.
[Don't be afraid, Tangtang] 0 min 1 day ago
A gourmet chef who accidentally opened this calmly clicking x.
[My Husband is 2D] replied: Not by accident, you were tricked into it right? The blurb clearly says Midnight Feast fanfic, but the text is of lower quality.
[My Husband is 2D] 2 min just now
Writing horror stories under the modern sweet romance genre, shamelessly riding on the popular tag
Writing horror stories under the modern sweet romance genre, shamelessly riding on the popular show tag
Writing horror stories under the modern sweet romance genre, shamelessly riding on the popular show tag
Writing horror stories under the modern sweet romance genre, shamelessly riding on the popular show tag
Trash, if you have the ability, then remove my comment again
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[Snow Skin Rice Cake] 5h 2 min ago
Sending 3 [roses] to the author
[Gourmet food never surrenders] 5h 0 min ago
??? can the gourmet chefs who were lied to by the tag gather here, what does this work have to do with our sweet drama?
[Sugar sugar sugar sugar] replied: Arriving +1
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[Don't be afraid, Tangtang] replied: +10086
[Crayon] 1 day 0 min ago
A supernatural suspense novel?
[Tang Guo waifu wait for me] replied to [Crayon]: It's a Midnight Feast fanfic, I don't know what paro it is, respected author write more ah
[Sugar sugar sugar sugar] replied to [Tang Guo waifu wait for me]: Nope, the gourmet kitchen is withdrawing, sister read the text, it has nothing to do with Midnight Feast, this is purely for traffic.
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[kkrtt] 1 day 0 min ago
This is a fan? How weird.
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Oh my, this comment section is so bloody.
This author is better than Nezha!
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Footnotes
1 priest uses the term 陰物 which refers to female genitalia
Those were the words that Iwaizumi Hajime had said to Oikawa Tohru, who had stopped to turn back and look at him. It was fall at the time.
“You’re my partner and an utterly amazing setter.”
On this day, Aobajousai High School had lost in the semifinals at the Miyagi representative game of the spring volleyball tournament. And starting from that lost match, the third years were to retire.
Iwaizumi and Oikawa weren’t only the captain and vice-captain of the volleyball club. They had been together through junior high school and elementary school, more than half of their lives—up until now— was spent together on the courts as partners.
Iwaizumi’s words were blunt, unembellished and held no lies.
“Even if this team changes, that will not change. When the time comes I will take you down.”
Oikawa straightened himself and accepted Iwaizumi’s words of passion and friendship head-on.
i imagine that hua cheng probably had this really spectacular and heartfelt confession planned out for once things settled down and he could ask xie lian out properly without seeming like a heathen but no! fengqing ruined his moment and he probably hasn't ever forgiven them for it
Okay I’ve decided to do a single rec after I finish one novel hahaha because if I wait to get around to it all it’ll never happen! Anyway because @sarah-yyy has been reading it and I’ve gotten a lot of asks/replies on this, I’m just going to do one huge list for one of my faves so everyone knows what’s going on and where to find things XD
My Top 2020 Danmei Rec List
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Summary:
This is set in a historical setting where men can marry other men, but it’s usually reserved for sons who were not borne by the official main first wife of the patriarch of the family, i.e. a son born by a concubine in a family may be forced to marry a man to keep him from being able to become the next family’s patriarch for example. This is because any family’s next leader needs to be able to have children with a wife who married in as a zheng shi (lawful wife), and not a ce shi (second wife) or any other concubines/mistresses etc. Most of these men who marry other men have to take them as their zheng shi and lawful spouse in a sense, and the same goes for the royal family.
The story starts with third prince Jing Shao, who was forced to marry Mu Han Zhang, a Marquis’ second son, by the Empress and Emperor, thereby officially and effectively cutting him out of the race for the throne. He’s mocked by the public as everyone knows what this means, and for the next 10 years, he neglects Mu Han Zhang, blaming him for his predicament, and deliberately showers his three other concubines with affection in front of him, but 10 years later, when Jing Shao is accused of treason, everyone leaves him except for Mu Han Zhang. They are chased to the edge of the cliff by soldiers, and Mu Han Zhang dies in his arms having taken an arrow meant for him earlier, and Jing Shao jumps off the cliff with his dead body, and promises that if there’s a next life, he will do everything Han Zhang says, and love him.
He wakes up immediately on the night of his marriage with Han Zhang, and realizes that he’s been given a second chance to make everything right. Han Zhang is definitely afraid of him, humiliated and angry when he first wakes up after how rough Jing Shao was with him earlier on their wedding night, and he has no memories of their past life. Jing Shao then sets to SHOWER HAN ZHANG with affection, love and basically everything, because he realized that this is the only person who stayed by his side until the end, and then he falls in love with Han Zhang properly this time, and also deals with every single person who maligned and schemed against him in his previous life, with Han Zhang by his side.
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Characters:
1. 景韶 Jing Shao - 3rd Prince and is the first out of his three other brothers to be given a title 成王 (cheng wang). He’s referred to as 王爷, and also 小勺 (xiao shao) by Han Zhang. Went out on his first war when he was 14, and was thus given a title before any of his brothers. He’s known for being a merciless, cold and fierce army general/commander, but this was before his second life with Han Zhang, where he puts on like his doting mode and is basically a dumbass XD who listens to Han Zhang with a lot of trust, which is cool and all.
He marries Han Zhang when he’s 19, and in his first life he was very reluctant and resistant, and neglected Han Zhang for 10 years, until he was charged with treason and hunted down.
In his first life he wanted to snatch the throne, even from his blood-related brother Jing Chen, but more out of spite than anything else because he felt he was dealt an unfair hand by having to marry Han Zhang. Not only that, but Jing Shao is not his father’s favourite son, and he always felt that the emperor was biased against him. Anyway, a huge accumulation of daddy and anger issues, which is fair.
When he realizes that Han Zhang died for him, he decides he will be good to Han Zhang if they are reborn in their next life.
2. 慕含章 Mu Han Zhang - The 2nd son of Marquis Bei Hou’s, born to a concubine. He’s called by his 表字 which is 君清 (jun qing) by Jing Shao. Official First Wife Bei Wei Hou-furen and her son (who is in line to inherit the Marquis title from his father) has bullied him all his life, and wanted to push him into greater desperation by marrying him to Jing Shao, knowing he will suffer at the hands of the supposed merciless/heartless wangye. He has a weak body because of an accident when he was younger, and in his first life he was really sick after being neglected for 10 years, and knowing this in their second life, Jing Shao does everything he can to take care of him.
He is incredibly smart, has a brain for business and sales, and is also very good at handling people, especially scheming ones. He aids Jing Shao in the beginning of their second life, and then Jing Chen later as well, as both brothers begin to fight to put Jing Chen on the throne, against the 1st and 4th Princes. Is an incredibly good tactician in war as well.
3. 景琛 Jing Chen - 2nd Prince, Jing Shao’s blood related older brother who is handsome af too. His title, given later in the novel, is 睿王 (rui wang). He was misunderstood by Jing Shao in the first life as Jing Shao thought it was his brother who led to him marrying Han Zhang, and because he’s not very good at expressing himself and shows his concern to Jing Shao by nagging at him, Jing Shao always thought he hated him. In their second life, Jing Shao already knows that Jing Chen loves him and did a lot for him in his first life, and so trusts his brother and supports him right off the bat, because Jing Chen is indeed the most suited person for the throne.
He has a wife, and a concubine, 3 sons and 2 daughters at this point. He ends up helping Jing Shao a lot, and when he realizes that Han Zhang is way more adept at politics and the whole scheming thing than Jing Shao is, he begins trusting Han Zhang a lot more as well! There’s a surprise with Jing Chen hahaha which I loveee and could see, but wasn’t sure until they confirmed it in the last few chapters AHAHAHAHA.
Other Notable Characters:
1. Song Ling Xin (Second Wife) on the left, and two other concubines on the right
They’re pretty much vying for Jing Shao’s attention, but at this point apparently he hasn’t slept with any of them before. Song Ling Xin is the daughter of the Military Department’s Head Song An, and Jing Shao married her initially out of interest. The right most concubine (I forgot her name oops) was a gift given to him by his oldest brother, the 1st Prince. The two of them played a huge role in Jing Shao’s downfall back in his first life, and so in his second life, he especially detests Song Ling Xin. Plus the three of them keep bullying Han Zhang in the beginning, but thankfully Jing Shao is like: “Anything my Jun Qing wants”.
2. Xiao Yuan & Zhou Da-Ge
This is another male couple who’s been married for 7-8 years if I recall. Xiao Yuan is one of Jing Shao’s important allies and friends in the second life, because in Jing Shao’s first life, this was one of the only young officials in court who spoke up for him when the accusations of treason came about. Zhou Da-Ge is his husband, who is a cook running a restaurant in the city. Whenever Zhou Da-Ge bullies Xiao Yuan in bed a little too much, Xiao Yuan punishes him by making him wear colourful clothes out (pink, bright yellow, purple, etc.) and thus he has a reputation for being eccentric and a weirdo, but oh well, all for love.
3. Gu Huaiqing
One of Jing Shao and Jing Chen’s most powerful allies, and he becomes blood-sworn brothers with Jing Shao without realizing who he is. Later he takes a liking to Jing Chen.
(Will update with photos when they come out, but they’re a bit further into the story so we won’t have them for a few months yet ahahaha)
Amazing Scenes:
Jing Shao & Han Zhang first looks in the manhua
Jing Shao being THAT clingy husband and helping Han Zhang to wear his clothes properly so cute!!!!!
Han Zhang and Jing Shao in their first lives (10 years later), about to die, sad and then Jing Shao jumps down the cliff with Han Zhang’s corpse, regretful cuz he a dumb bij
Jing Shao unable to resist kissing Han Zhang’s cheek, realizes what he’s doing, and gets embarrassed LMAOOOO 没出息!!!!!!! (This is different from the novel, because in the novel Jing Shao just kisses and is done with that, the embarrassment part is drawn in only in the manhua hahaha)
Other Things I Like in the Novel:
Jing Shao is like, he does a 180 entirely and he is very cognisant of all his faults and what he did wrong previously, and how badly he treated Han Zhang, so he legit forces his brain to go “I will listen to Jun Qing from now on” and he really sticks to it!
Loves kissing and teasing Han Zhang, but doesn’t force him into bed after their wedding night, and instead goes to Xiao Yuan and asks for tips on how to make his partner feel less scared about sex
The both of them end up with a pet tiger?!! That’s called Xiao Huang (little yellow) LMAO
They nap together a lot which I love <3333
Jing Shao knows he’s bullied at home, so when they go back to the Marquis Bei Hou manor, he holds Han Zhang’s hand in front of everyone to let them know Han Zhang has someone to back him up
Brings Han Zhang to war because he “cannot concentrate if Jun Qing isn’t with me at all times” - and asks for special permission to do so
Han Zhang notes that since he married Jing Shao, as the ‘wife’ he is supposed to serve Jing Shao, but it’s always Jing Shao serving him - Getting water for him, bringing him to baths, putting clothes on for him, putting food in his plate if it tastes nice, massaging his back and waist etc. - and best is he doesn’t have to deal with any in-laws?!! HAHAHA
Jing Shao gets revenge on those who hurt Han Zhang when he was younger for him, and the outcome is pretty hilarious but well-deserved
jiang wanyin is a quiet college student that no one talks to because they're all scared of him, granted it would be hard not to be scared of a man who has a permanent scowl on his face. on the other hand, lan xichen is a popular and friendly upperclassman in the same department. jiang wanyin would much rather avoid people than admit that he wants to be friends with another person so lan xichen cuts to the chase, sitting across from him during lunch one day. with a brush of pink stardust across jiang wanyin's cheeks, he finds himself falling in love with the only person that's ever approached him without being scared of him.
