Please Stop Pretending To Be a Cute Newcomer!Ch59 - Coffin

The knife plummeted, and a few seconds later, a scarecrow was left split in half on the ground.

Shen Qingcheng used his terminal as a light source: before the incident, they hadn’t had the time to check, but now he wanted to take a closer look at what was the scarecrow’s body was hiding. qd0TG4

A brighter light source came from behind him. He turned around, and saw Lu Qi with a flashlight in his hand.

He hadn’t taken out the flashlight earlier, which had made him touch something ugly!

Chrysanthemum Garden.

Seeing the man’s slightly chilly expression, Shen Qingcheng couldn’t help but deliberately ask, “Lu Qi, did you think about my night blindness when you didn’t take that out just now? When we were in the castle, you took the initiative to lead me, but this time you didn’t, are you waiting for me to take the initiative?”

Lu Qi lifted his feet and walked over, clasping his wrists and pulling the ranting man behind him. fO5Med

Shen Qingcheng exaggeratedly said in surprise, “Ah, this move means that you can pull me if you want, without waiting for me to take the initiative?”

The man in front of him paused, turned and asked, “Are you going to listen to me?”

Shen Qingcheng, who didn’t know what medicine he was trying to sell, nodded obediently, “I am.”

Lu Qi said lightly, “Then shut up.”

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Shen Qingcheng: “Okay.” Lu Qi became angry because of embarrassment–fine, he’d slandered him!

“It came for you.” Lu Qi said, now that he wasn’t distracted by Shen Meiren.

He crouched down to examine the scarecrow that was split in two on the ground. The scarecrow wore the same mourning clothes as the “crowd” did during the day.

Lu Qi’s eyes stayed on the unchanging smiling face. It was clearly a scarecrow, but it had a face like human skin. sHFNJY

He peeled off the skin with the tip of the knife, and as soon as the human skin fell to the ground, it immediately shrank into a piece of shredded paper.

The shredded paper was about an inch wide and a finger long, in an irregular shape, as if it had been torn.

The bright red smiley face was gone, and a distorted red word was deeply imprinted on the front side of the shredded paper, reading “dispute”.

Dispute. dYvR1m

Lu Qi pondered it unsuccessfully. He had stayed in the illusion for too short a time, and much information and clues weren’t very clear, so he could only temporarily put away the shredded paper.

After doing this, he got up and stood up straight. It was too quiet–hadn’t he heard Shen Meiren’s voice just then?

Lu Qi frowned and turned around.

He wasn’t in a hurry, because he could still detect Shen Meiren’s breathing. W0wl5K

A few steps behind Lu Qi, Shen Qingcheng took out a talisman paper from his small backpack and lit it in his palm.

The burning talisman was orange-red, but the flame turned blue when it touched Shen Qingcheng’s hand.

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Lu Qi approached, “What’s going on?”

Shen Qingcheng showed him the burnt paper ashes. There was a small amount of black ashes on the tip of his right index finger, but the ashes in the palm of his hand were gray. nB6OoX

“In the illusory world, I touched some burnt paper money ashes,” Shen Qingcheng explained. He hadn’t expected that it would leave a tracking mark for the scarecrow. “They really won’t allow anyone to leave Fengshan Town alive.”

After he finished speaking, he blew off the ashes and wiped his hands off, “What clue did you find just now?”

We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.

Oe Hl: “C cbaf klat “vlrqeaf” kglaafc bc la.”

“Ktf cbaf bc atf rmjgfmgbk? Ktfc P uefrr kf cffv ab olcv j ofk wbgf ab xlii.” Vtfc Hlcumtfcu uijcmfv ja atf eciemxs yjrajgv ktbrf ojmf tjv yffc raglqqfv jkjs bc atf ugbecv. EOdMwV

Oe Hl: “Rb, beg ubji lr ab gfjmt atf ijra rabq.”

As long as they could find the key and stop the speeding train, they didn’t have to go out of their way to collect other clues.

Shen Qingcheng understood this.

It was a pity that he hadn’t yet figured out the storyline of this dungeon; it felt like hearing half of a story then being told that the ending was a dud–incredibly uncomfortable! SUGpsy

The scarecrow at the door had delayed them for a few minutes.

Now that he had a flashlight, he could enter the building without Lu Qi leading the way. He was still thinking about hearing half a story: “The scarecrow that suddenly appeared seems to be different from the “crowd” on the street.”

Lu Qi: “The ones on the street are players’ bodies.”

“En, I saw quite a few familiar faces,” Shen Qingcheng nodded in agreement with him, “Only the ones who appear suddenly are filled with straw.” MPAjiR

Immediately afterwards, he realized that if the scarecrow was tracking him using the paper ashes, and he had just burned the paper ashes and disappeared, how could the scarecrow find him again?

In other words, where could they find the real scarecrows? Where could they peel off the strips of paper? Where could he watch the end of the story?

Shen Qingcheng, who was forced to accept an unfinished ending: “…”

As they entered the building, the mournful music became more and more indistinct, but in contrast, the surrounding darkness was deeper and richer. 7RPM60

The light of the flashlight could only illuminate their feet. The surrounding darkness seemed to be alive, twisting and squirming, trying to swallow all the living things inside of it.

A spot of light suddenly lit up at the end of the corridor, and Liu Shi’an’s tentative voice whispered, “Lu Qi, Shen Meiren, is that you?”

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Shen Qingcheng said, “It’s us.” He held a talisman paper in his hand.

When he had taken out the talisman paper just then, he had prepared a few more and put them in his pockets. J3rE4n

The spot of light gradually approached, and the person who was using a terminal to illuminate the space did indeed bear Liu Shi’an’s face.

Liu Shi’an was relieved to see them, “You’re finally here, we thought…”

Shen Qingcheng: “Are you all here?”

Liu Shi’an smiled gratefully: “En, thank you and Lu Qi for leading those “people” away. Lan Xiu’er and I arrived first, and Lin-ge arrived in the evening.” ClkoSU

“We’ve searched this building, and the information is stored in the office. They’re waiting for you in the office, just upstairs.”

Shen Qingcheng also smiled, “Then you lead the way.”

When Liu Shi’an turned around, Shen Qingcheng slapped a talisman on Liu Shi’an’s shoulder.

In the next second, the talisman ignited with a faint blue flame. rKthI2

The person in front let out a silent scream, and the air seemed to vibrate a bit. “Liu Shi’an” looked back at them resentfully, turning into a wisp of black mist that melded into the surrounding darkness.

Gradually, the darkness faded.

In fact, Shen Qingcheng and Lu Qi had noticed something was wrong as early as when “Liu Shi’an” had first appeared.

Shen Qingcheng had felt it through his intuition, while Lu Qi had smelled blood on “Liu Shi’an”. lBt2Rj

But instead of exposing it right away, they took waited to take advantage of the situation.

Lu Qi: “There should be no players left alive in the station.”

Shen Qingcheng could hear his implication, “Is it the train attendant that was guarding the station?”

Lu Qi: “En.” mN6Xyo

During the illusion, every night the train attendants had accumulated more blood on their bodies than the day before. Shen Qingcheng, who was in the illusion at the time, couldn’t think of the reason, but after he woke up he realized that it was because the train attendants would deal with a player’s corpse every day.

The blood from the corpses got onto the train attendant’s clothes, so the blood stains became more and more abundant.

Chrysanthemum Garden.

The same was true this time. It had dealt with too many corpses, so the blood couldn’t be hidden.

Lu Qi: “Don’t worry, it can’t attack directly.” pVHdx3

From the illusion and the way it had disguised as Liu Shi’an, it was obvious that the ghosts in this copy couldn’t directly attack the player, but could only kill with a borrowed knife.

Shen Qingcheng: “I’m not worried. After all, Lu-dage is here to protect me!”

Lu-dage turned around and left.

Shen Qingcheng laughed slyly behind him. T7kJ6P

Although the flight attendant had been pretending to be Liu Shi’an, what it said was still true. Lin Wen, Lan Xiu’er, and Liu Shi’an had indeed arrived at the government building and were waiting for them in the office upstairs.

The two parties met in the office, and Shen Qingcheng first handed everyone a gift of talismans.

After confirming that the people in front of him weren’t disguised, he looked at Lin Wen, whose arm was bandaged, and asked, “Are you injured?”

Lin Wen said, “I saw a Lu Qi before.” 0yWdek

Shen Qingcheng understood immediately, “An imposter?”

Lin Wen nodded, “I was blinded and fell down the stairs. Luckily, it wasn’t serious.”

“I’ll teach you a way to identify whether Lu Qi and I are ghosts in disguise.” Under the expectant gaze of several people, Shen Qingcheng waved his hand, “It’s simple, if you see me or Lu Qi alone, it must be a fake!”

The three thought about the meaning of this sentence. Did Shen Meiren mean that he and Lu Qi would never separate? WO37yo

They looked at the other party, but he didn’t react at all, just inexplicably asked, “Data?”

What an annoying blockhead!

Liu Shi’an said, “Yes, we found the information about the construction of the station that year.”

It was simple. Bfe6Vp

Repairing the railway station was a government project. After the project was approved, the construction of the station was contracted out through bidding, and the engineering team that got the contract for the project happened to include the son of the official who had given the task.

The construction of the station went well, but people died on the day it was built and opened to traffic.

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Shen Qingcheng: “A local person died?”

Liu Shi’an thought he was guessing, “Correct, and it was the mayor of Fengshan Town. It’s said that the accident was caused by loss of control of the train, and the mayor died on the spot.” ceJGjm

Shen Qingcheng raised his eyebrows: the train wasn’t a passenger car or a freight car, even if it went out of control, it could only run on the track. The mayor himself had run onto the track?

Liu Shi’an: “Afterwards, there were several more accidents at the station, and then it was gradually abandoned.”

Lin Wen noted, “I saw the subsequent accidents in some tabloids.”

After Lu Qi heard this, he said, “Go to the bell tower.” lwVaSC

Shen Qingcheng translated to the confused others, “The station was built by the mayor when he was in office. When the mayor died, the whole town held a funeral for him, which shows that this mayor was very popular among the townspeople.”

Then it made perfect sense that the key would be on the mayor.

Lu Qi: “You must find the key tonight.”

Shen Qingcheng: “Because they will hold funerals on the streets during the day, this is not conducive to our actions. The most important thing is that the train attendant came out of the station, and it should be able to control those “people”.” After all, they were little bamboo people that it had created. zJwY2d

Lu Qi: “You go to the station with them, I’ll get the key and go to the station to find you.”

Shen Qingcheng: “This is called splitting up to effectively save time and resources, right?”

He turned his head, narrowed his eyes slightly, and snorted coldly, “You said that you would protect me, and that you would never separate from me, you big pig trotter!”

Although it wasn’t clear to him what a big pig trotter was, he should know what he himself had said. rl5OKj

Lu Qi rubbed his forehead without insisting, and said, “Let’s go.”

Shen Qingcheng’s face immediately turned from cloudy and clear, and he happily went to find the mayor with Lu Qi.

The three people watching the whole process: the result is the same, his words were disregarded like he hadn’t spoken.

The little brat: Waya~ jUeVd6

The bell tower.

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There was no light, and under the dark night, “people” in white mourning clothes knelt quietly facing the tower. Their hands and heads were drooping, and their faces were covered by oversized hat brims.

The faint grief and mournful music wafted in the air, like a wandering soul. YJXdSF

White almost filled the streets, and there were so many “people” that it was difficult for them to enter the bell tower without disturbing them.

At the window of a two story building on the street, Shen Qingcheng whispered in Lu Qi’s ear, “Do you like fireworks? I’ll set off fireworks for you.”

The man moved.

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Shen Qingcheng opened his eyes slightly and stepped back: it wasn’t my fault, it was your ear that kissed my mouth!

Translator's Note

Means “can you be obedient” (听话吗).

Translator's Note

Lit. “what medicine was being sold in the gourd” (葫芦里卖什么药). Think of it as him not knowing “what he was trying to pull”. Chinese doctors used to store their medicine in gourds, and as they are very much not transparent, it would be impossible to determine what is being stored in a given gourd by sight alone.

Translator's Note

Lit. “was like a pit” (坑了一样). Hobbies are sometimes referred to as “pits” (you can pour in as much time and money as you want and it still won’t be filled). This probably means the story doesn’t have an ending, meaning the investment you have in it seems wasted, as if it was going into a bottomless pit.

Translator's Note

An idiom from 三十六计, means indirectly influence things to cause harm (借刀杀人).

Translator's Note

Lit. “hate you for being a block of wood” (恨你是根木头). Basically, I think they resent him for being so blasé about what Shen Qingcheng just said.

Translator's Note

Two empty boxes are omitted here (□□).

Translator's Note

“Pig hands” (猪手) m”messy and ambiguous”, while “pig hoof/trotter” means “no-good thing”. It’s commonly used to deride men who break promises and don’t mean what they say, but can also be used to complain about uninterested straight men.

Translator's Note

Sounds like “wow” (哇呀).

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  1. Lmao Shen Qingcheng ah, Shen Qingchen~ 🤣 one of these days, our Lu-dage is gonna snap from all the teasing/flirting and our Shen Meiren will have no one to blame but himself~ 😂

    • hohoho but Shen Meiran was the one who crossed the line first… what was supposed to be transporting air became a passionate kiss under the sunset… haiyaaa~~~ so dreaming definitely not something a single dog like me should see xD

        • Yes, sis, the single dog fan club of ours is simply made to seek dog food to fill up our stomachs, I’m also a heavy sugar lover so I don’t mind if you dip 10 spoons of sugar into my food btw.

          Also, ear Kiss really has a flirty charm to it and I really don’t know why, it’s just so smegsy looking at it xD, so for reference, big boss Lu is at the club with his wifey, Meiran the no. 1 beauty, they sit down at a corner sofa side by side, with beauty Mei bugging big boss Lu’s arms. Beauty Mei then gets on top of him and gives him a light kiss on the ear, flirting like that and then suddenly closing the distance with a soft kiss… 🫣 I won’t go into any more detail but you should get the feel~~

          • Lol yea, the amount of daily dog food i require is off the charts, especially for someone with no dog 🤣

            Oof- my god, is it just me or is it hot in here? 🌬🥵 also, why did I imagine Lu-dage as a mafia boss even though it implied he was something like a special forces agent???? 😅🤣

        • lmfao, same- 💀

          Sis it’s too real he just gives off more of a Mafia Boss (not that I mind a Mafia Wife beauty Mei-) But I’m sure he’s some high-ranking government agent because his grandfather is the Marshal after all and he’s the captain of some sort of team-

          • Yessss~ high ranking agent is good too~ I’m in the middle of reading “Surprise! The Supposed Talent Show was actually–?!” and man, Wei Shi was such a peak Domineering CEO type (before he had the vinegar drinking battle with Little Wei Shi but that was absolutely, 💯 funny as heck!!! 😂🤣😂)

        • oh man I was also caught up in that novel, I started reading the first few chapters but I guess I was a little tired of the unlimited flow genre so I took a break for a while and focused on some more slice of life…

          • Haha yeah, I binge-read it until ch. 191 before I got a bit tired of the story so I’m taking a break with another novel before going back to finish it up~ unsurprisingly, the new novel is also an Unlimited Flow 😅

        • xD Unlimited flow just has that unlimited attraction to it, you can never really leave the genre and will keep getting pulled back. I guess it’s because of the different theme of each instance, not only does it not always stay the same it is also inclusive with different type of horror mystery events and stories. This is especially felt in disguise specialist mc’s (referring to “The Days I Spent Pretending To Be An NPC In A Escape Game” It’s pretty good I think you’ve already seen it)

          • Oh my god, YESSSS!!! I love PNPC!! A-Fei is the best and it’s hilarious seeing Saman simp for him every time~ 🤭 I’m currently waiting for the Translator to be done with the Deep Blue arc so I can binge read it~ 😍 honestly, all the arcs are awesome in this novel — the Scarlet Witch arc really showed us A-Fei’s prowess~

        • damn sis, to tell you the truth a year ago I paused my progress on the novel as I was tired of the unlimited flow genre, I was already quite behind everyone else so I wanted to catch up but I guess I just gave up, only now am I beginning to finish reading the story again I’m only up to the end of “Nobody Knows” and god knows when I’ll catch up, prob when the story is going to end soon… 🤧

          I also 100% agree I love the Scarlet Witch so much and I actually was in awe after he transformed into a monster king (well fallen angel) but yea it was so god dang cool, A Fei really played until the end and gave the monsters the power even if it was a legendary prop, the dedication is off the chart <3

          • Ohh~ haha i also took a break for a while before going back – if you’re at the end of Nobody Knows, then it won’t take you long to catch up~ honestly, when the arcs are fully translated, it’s so much easier to keep reading~ 😁 I especially enjoy the chapters in between instances since we see a lot of conscious Saman x A-Fei interactions (as opposed to the instance interactions, which are also funny with Saman not knowing it’s A-Fei he’s interacting with 🤭)

          • Lmao he has so many different sides – the boss style when he’s dealing with anyone other than A-Fei, the puppy dog style when he’s with A-Fei, and the recently discovered Wolf-in-a-sheep style that we see since he and A-Fei progressed on their relationship~ 😳😏😂

        • Oh- OH- wolf in sheep clothings I see~ I better catch up fast~ 🫣😏 jk I never keep promises and I just started binge-reading “The Passerby, He Turned Out To Be The World Ending Boss’ 💀

        • lol I am so sorry I myself am caught in the whirlwind of catching up in reading with “The Days I Spend Pretending To Be An NPC” and “I Rely On Wilderness Survivor Broadcast To Survive” but then I just started binge-reading novels like “The Passerby, He Turned Out To Be The World Ending Boss” (btw the normal website I use for this translated using google translate isn’t too good so I’m trying to find an MTL translation website with good translation if you got one pls recommend to me) and then now I’m interested in “Little Mushroom” man it keeps popping up from time to time, and because of it I am also reminded I need to also read “I Became A God In A Horror Game” and “Mist” (both god tier novels tbh) even though I’m less than 1/4 of the way through them. And then I also realize if I don’t start reading some novels I’ll have to spend time later to try and catch up to them which will take an extreme amount of time not to even mention my Reading List, some of them also includes sweet fluffy novels and just overall death novels that I also need to find a translation website for… wuwuwuwu I’ll start crying now and I’m sorry for rambling on about this to you, but I really need to catch up with a lot of stuff… and also need to keep up with the specific novels that I’m following along with, such as “It’s my turn to dominate” or “when the wolf goes out and enter the escape games” or maybe “corpse collector” (takes real long to update but u should know I’m keeping up with it) I’m also currently keeping up with “the passerby, he turned out to be the world ending boss” then also with “Please Stop pretending to be a cute newcomer” then finish off reading “You use a gun I use a bow” afkdlfjowafj there’s so much to keep up with

          ദ്ദി ꒦ິ꒳꒦ິ )✧

          Final evaluation, I have problems with being a novel scumbag, reading 1/4 of the way then picking up a new one…

          • Lmao I’m reading the majority of the novels you mentioned so I understand 🥹👍

            I did start reading “the passerby…” novel – it’s actually on CG so I’m just reading it here~ it only has 10 chapters so far so I guess it was recently picked up~ 🤔

            I did recently get caught up with “Welcome to the Dream World”~ and I’m waiting for updates on some of the novels, like “After rebirth, I became the scum gong’s uncle’s destined omega”, “Master of Trading Star Card Game”, “Marshal, Please Calm Down”, “I became everyone’s favorite after transmigrating as the mozun”, and “Escape from the library”~ I still need to catch up with “I upended yet another campus legend” and “I can still survive (interstellar)” and these are only some novels from just the CG website!! I’m still following other novels on NU and other sites 😭😭😭 and then when I think of all the new fanfic updates I keep getting and the anime I’ve been following and the new webtoon updates, I’m just- 🫠 I have too many things to catch up on and yet, I’m in the mood currently to read NEW novels… 💀

        • The fact that I also bookmarked all of these novels… really says a lot… I AM REALLY STRUGGLING!!! I really do recommend reading “The Passerby, he turned out to be the World Ending Boss” on CG because the translated version is definitely easier to read and we get 3 chapters every day, I have tried to binge-read it but the google translation on this one is really hard and confusing, but it’s okay I can continue to read since I’m already pass chapter 33 might as well read it all xD

          • Haha good luck to us both! ✊️🥲😂

            Yeah and the novel seems to be updating pretty quickly~ I’m almost in the last arc of “I love Farming” soooo~ I need to find a new novel soon… 🫣😶‍🌫️ or go back to finish up the other novels I took a break from…. but I’m more in the mood for a new one…. but I still have Thriller Trainee and Thriller Tour Group to catch up on…. and the other completed novels to finish reading…. but… new novels…. decisions decisions…. so difficult… 😥😫

        • omg those are also on my reading list… 😭😭😭

          btw my mentality finally gave in and now I’m just focused on reading translated chapters and catching up with other translated chapters on PNPC and WILD 🥲 (also starting to follow along on other novels that only has 1-25 chapters so I don’t need to catch up with them later xD)

          • Haha nice!! Honestly, i came across WILD before but the synopsis misled me about the relationship between mc and ml so i didn’t wanna read it then~ i finally decided to read it and, man oh man am i glad I did!!! 🤩 it was so funny how Lu Liran is actually a fanboy of the Commander but he had such a low opinion of our Meiren 😂 and the cub is soooo cute~ 🥰

        • lol it’s all hubby’s fault! Who told him to not show his babe his face? I absolutely adore the cub! I can’t wait for it to be revealed the identity of the little bun, like imagine 2 of the most influential people (1 is the commander of a VERY powerful army, and the other is the youngest master of the richest family, they have both power and wealth 💀) having a child? It’ll shock the entire world!!! Zai Zai is gonna live so well as a rich second-generation ancestor xD

          Btw I gave up again now I’m just binge-reading “The God of War Returns and Spices Up Life With Marriage” talk about someone who can’t make up their mind, I am in great turmoil and if I can’t even get my novel schedule organized then my life is doomed xD

          Also I just realized whoever reads this chapter next is gonna scroll down and come to our weird conversation that keeps escalating from novels to other novels 😅

          • Haha i know right?? I was so confused as to how Lu Liran didn’t know who he slept with or that Meiren is actually his beloved Commander~ 😅 When the reasons finally came out, I was like, “that’s so stupid… but it makes sense… but soooo stupid!! 😫” xD Zai Zai is fr gonna be the most pampered cub ever~ and he will definitely cause many heart attacks when his parentage reveal happens~ 😂

            Lol girl, I’m the same~ 😅 I ended up picking up a new novel – “After Rebirth, I returned to Miaojiang to inherit the family business” – even though I have so many to catch up on 🥲 but I can’t regret it… even though the story is confused me in the beginning, the characters are worth it~ 😶‍🌫️

            Lolol I’m sure they’re being entertained by the chaos and taking note of the novels to read~ 😅🤣

        • Omg gurl- “after rebirth I return to maojiang to inherit the family business” I just finished binge reading “the god of war spices up life with marriage” and have no idea what to read next, you just gave me determination thank you so much <3 tbh I started reading that one a long while back but I lost efficiency after finding the timeline too confusing so eventually I dropped it after a few chapters, but now thinking again with more braincells (don’t believe me I think more actually died after consuming too many weird manhwa logic) I find the plot easier to understand and was ready to get back into the novel and it’s been on my recent list of need to catch up! (Wiping tears or PNPC and WILD after I said I’ll try to catch up but then got sidetracked again, btw I gave up and just let my interest carry me to places 🥹🥺😭🙏)
          • Giiirrlll~ it’s sooo good but sooooo confusing!!! 😭 I still have no idea what’s what but I can’t stop reading~ I love the “cold and indifferent” cp type~ they’ll no doubt be passionate enough to make h*ll seem cold once they get going~ 😂

        • lmfao, today I officially begin to focus on reading it and I’m only meeting grandma Miao now but she seems kind, tbh I don’t understand the translation, I know the translator’s other works and the translation is quite good but idk what’s happening with this one, maybe since it’s one years ago the translation wasn’t quite good then so now the translation is improving xD

          • I think my problem is more of a cultural thing – all these things about Gu and stuff – the only novel I read with Gu is “Married Thrice to a Salted Fish” 😅 that made the Miaojiang arc a bit confusing but I’ve gotten over it~ now, I’m just confused about the timeline~ 😂🤣😂

        • lol I can try to help you comprehend, A, is world 1 where mc comes from, B, is world 2 where ghost king Wu exist, and C, world 3 is where mc is reborn and where B people is reborn… ik it’s confusing and that’s why I gave up reading xD

          Also I can’t say I understand the Gu culture either but I’ll just go along with it, I have read some novels involving Gu and that so at least I have a basic understanding 🤷

          • Yup! I understood that timeline but I’m blanking about Fu Qing and Big Ghost and Wu Rong relationship and it’s making me wanna cry- 😭😭😭 what the heck happened between them?? How many chapters do I need to read to finally get to that truth?? Till the end??? It’s not gonna come out until the end of the novel??? 😭😭😭 I’m so impatient 💀

        • Omg I’m still at the beginning of the novel so ur making me confused af but also very anticipated to continue reading!!! Btw Fu Qing is ml right?

          Also sis, have you ever have the feeling that you can’t wait fir the novel to end cuz the author is kinda dragging stuff on too long, and then when it comes near the ending stuff gets hyped up as fvck and things starts to get interesting but then the novel just ends for no reason? Like I’m so confused, it feels like the author just wanted to end it and they just rushed the ending, kinda like “I wasn’t born lucky” I loved that novel so much and finished reading in like a few days, but that one got me reeled in real good but I’m still sulking over how they didn’t even have extra chapters, especially they never revealed the relationship and showed the face of the elder brother! This is a silly comedian, infinite flow novel mc just straight up got that halo, but it was so sweet how long ml waited for mc to see him again ❤️

          • Yup! Fu Qing is the ml and I seem to get some answers now (mostly from the Netizen comments the Translator includes at the end of chapters 🤭) but still waiting for clarification~ it’s definitely an intriguing read~

            Giiirrrlll~ have i ever?! 🙄 I can’t remember the titles but i came across such novels so many times!!! They’re really good and interesting at the beginning so I start reading it but as it goes on, suddenly, there’s no substance to it and the story’s lagging – some of the worse ones, I just dropped 🫠 not just novels, it’s the same with every media and sometimes, i just skip to the ending 😅 sometimes it’s worth it, many times, I’m just disappointed but not surprised 😂 lol

        • Oh ok! Thx for the confirmation sis! I blame my confusion on when M1zushi-sama note at the end “those two are biting like dogs” so that’s where the idea of ghost x human come from xD (but he does look like the type to be second ml, the ghost)

          haiii tbh with you sis I rarely just skip to the ending, unless the novel is really bad or I’m just looking for something bittersweet to marvel at I won’t just jump till the ending and that’s how I keep my motivation up!!! And lots of times it don’t disappoint!

          • Ohh~ yea, the whole Big Ghost and Fu Qing thing makes sense in a couple of chapters… well, sorta – they don’t clarify it yet but it’s pretty much a popular theory~ you’ll see what I mean soon~

            Tbf, I’ve never skipped to the ending of a novel — I did it with webtoons/manga and anime but not novels~ 🤔 honestly, I end up dropping the novel when it lags like that so I never read what happens — rarely, I might end up reading it from scratch, thinking it seems familiar, and depending on my mood, I actually end up reading through it, finding it interesting~ 😂🤣 Idk what my brain goes thru~ 💀

        • lol sis that’s just how our brains work, we also need a sufficient amount of CP powder so if you don’t sprinkle enough- apologies author but I’ll have to skip out on this one 😌

          • Haha yea… that’s kindaaa how it was for “I love farming” >.> MC reeaaalllyyy love farming 😅 i literally skimmed and speed-read the chapters as he talked about farming and techniques and procedures 😂

        • Lmao is too much politic not enough of cub raising 💀

          You know sometimes I’m questioning if stuff in the novel is real cuz it’s so detailed and all so I’m like, “wait- if you know so much info about farm, then like what’s ur job irl? 🤔” like they always have so many IQ and I don’t understand 😆😄😅🥲

          • Giiirrrlll~ I have so much respect for the authors for that!!! ‘Cause, while there may be some who have irl job that they’re writing about, most of them are literally just THAT dedicated enough to do in-depth research about the topic~ ✊️😭 I can’t even begin to tell you how much knowledge I accumulated from various fanfics, webtoons, and novels~ seriously! Respect for those authors!!

        • girl like fr those author are just *muah * chef kiss 🤌✨ no wonder those novels turns out so good 😌

          And parents be like “go read some real book those novels won’t do jackshit” “ummm, excuse me I’m honoring those author’s dedication and also I’ll study when I wan’t to study but that’ll be never cuz I’m just teacher’s pet who always gets good grades out of nowhere 😩 Uh-KaY?”

          Also history books: they were best friends, roommates, buddies, colleagues, sisters, misters… history hates LoVErS (you see what I see? 🤨😐)

          • Lololol Yesssss!!! I swear, they can find intact remains of two women embracing each other and they’ll call it “really good friends, like sisters”~ 🤣 like, babe, c’mon! At least entertain the thought that it’s more than platonic~ 😂

        • Like historians, it’s not how homophobic you are it’s how accurate history is if you really loved history then you should dedicate yourself to historically accurate history which, is where you include EVERYONE’s relationship! 😤

          • Lol I’m sorry but the amount of times you used the word “history” is as hilarious as it’s accurate~ 😂 reminds me of SPN Crowley’s “no one in the history of torture has been tortured by the kind of torture you will be tortured with” scene~ 🤣

        • Omg girl idk who you’re talking about but that sounds like peak comedy 😂 😂 😂 well it all points to –> history <– after all… I hate history and geography 🥲

          Btw girl for a few days I thought you died or got lost somewhere since you didn’t reply, gave me a mini heart attack for a while there… I thought I lost you like how I randomly lost the bestie that I was chatting with on WILD 🤧😭

          • Babe, no way!! You don’t know Supernatural??? You gotta see it!!! It’s an A.M.A.Z.I.N.G. show! 😍 it’s about two brothers saving people and hunting things~ from season 4 onwards, they’re also joined by their baby-in-a-trenchcoat angel~ 🤣 depending on your region, you should be able to watch it on either Netflix or Prime~

            Haha sorry~ I was fighting for my life in the week long grueling battle that I’m forced to participate in every month~ 💀 lol I was just reading things without checking my notifs 😅

        • sis supernatural does sound fun… but I only watch ancient Chinese dramas… 😅 I don’t have a lot of interest in Western movies/series even if there are bl that’s why I only read/watch Asian bl……. I guess there’s a little bit too much of preferential treatment here 😶

          Purely focusing on reading without looking at notifications is a great thing for trying to catch up with novels… maybe I’ll try that sometime 🤔

          • Ahhhhh~ sigh well, I can’t say much for that then~ except that Dean’s so freakin’ handsome!!! 😫 but yeah, it’s not BL, tho Destiel is a popular ship that even the actors play around with~ 😂🤣

            I get into the ZONE when I’m binge-reading~ 😅 notifs are definitely ignored until I get tired of reading the story OR I finish the story~ 😂

        • I don’t think I’m a true devoted bl fan sis… like I’m so picky, I won’t read a novel unless it’s Chinese, won’t read/watch one unless it’s shou mc, won’t watch any scene if the ml douf up with a big misunderstand, won’t like it if the translator stops translating, won’t… blablabla you get it…

          • Lol girl, trust me, I go thru phases where I’m obsessed with certain genres and characteristics that I coldly abandon my current reads and dive deep into the new obsession~ 😅 when I eventually go thru the many obsessions, I fall back to a past obsession and pick up my read from many years back and continue it~ 😂 I’m waaayyyy too picky and worse, my tastes change too quickly~ 🤣

        • lol, girl, that’s what’s happening to me I feel like a scumbag every time because I just randomly bookmark any novel synopsis that I like and then just forget about it and let it accumulate dust over time xD Like I find that my main taste is separated between sweet ancient/interstellar novels and Spicy OP mc’s with loyal ml (only 1 or 2 novels, all of which are only novels that skip the painful part and go to the sweet revenge arc where mc is just- making me so happy <3) but what type of novel girl are you? My interest right now is in the supernatural genre, I only like Shou MCs (You Own My All is the only Gong MC manhua that I’ve ever read with love) and I have preferential treatment toward Chinese novels (e.g. I’ll make notes of characters and detailed stuff about Chinese Novels but with Korean or Japanese I’ll just read it for fun) xD
          • You know, my tastes change depending on my mood – sometimes, I’m in the Interstellar phase, sometimes it’s Guideverse, then theres ABO phase, and of course, Cultivation novels and Supernatural novels are also amazing~ don’t even get me started on Unlimited Flow novels and then there’s the Virtual Gaming novels and Transmigration novels~ 😅 I have varied tastes and I got into the specific rabbit hole depending on my mood~ 😂🤣 right now, I’m in the Supernatural phase~ yesterday, I was in the Guideverse phase 😅

            But I actually do enjoy Gong POV novels~ they tickle me something — it’s a nice break from all the Shou POV novels~ I also enjoy face-slapping plots depending on my mood but I’m also in live with the laid back, don’t care what you do but I’m going at my own pace kinda characters as well~

        • Man this is funny, cuz just yesterday I was determined on reading Ancient setting novels (I never really read them that much and actually just left a lot of them hanging… but to be specific I was recently focusing on “The Bastard Wife”) but it’s ridiculous because after that I just jumped to binge-reading a doomsday apocalypse novel lol (it’s PTWEB “The Passerby…” and I’m almost done reading 💀)

          Also I don’t know if its just because I have a special attraction toward Shou mc but gong mc just doesn’t stand with me… Like my normal view on a top is like someone who’s meant to be head over heals to mc and loves them to the bottom of their heart but I just prefer it much better if I see the mc being pampered than seeing the person pampering the shou… like is there anything I can do to change this world view? Even though lots of novel got shou mc perspective there are also tons and tons of good novels with gong mc and switch switch mc, I’m interested in a few but just can’t quite cope with the gong mc so I was thinking if you’ve got any tips to deal with it… (also if my wording is weird that’s the effect of MTL xD)

  2. Yeah, absolutely not your fault!!!

    Thank you for your translation 💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚

  3. Hehe….hehe….hehehehhehehe…hehehehehehhehe. everytime I read this novel I just giggle from all the teasing that shen meiren do to Lu dage. I’m impressed that lu dage doesn’t forcefully shut shen meiren up. One day hes gonna be like youre too noisy, shut up and kisses him. Come on lu dage, im waiting for that day to happen as shen meiren panics. (*ゝ`ω・)

    Thanks for the chapter ~~~

  4. I’m just randomly thinking about what’s been written in other chapters but what if Lu Qi’s from a sci fi world with like space travel.

    That’d just be so funny to me.

    Dude from an ultra futuristic world suddenly goes through the systems latest genre change into the 21st century, and earlier, supernatural scenarios and ends up in a relationship with a tianshi.

  5. Thanks for the chapter!

    I don’t know why but every time Shen Qingcheng teases Lu Qi it always makes my day better. ☺️