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Soul-Whip 7: Mountain Road Tragedy
“If you pass the scene of a car accident, don’t stare.”
“If someone tries to hitch a ride at midnight, don’t stop unless you have to.”
“And don’t think driving a big rig makes you so intimidating that trouble won’t come looking for you.”
Those were the warnings my Master gave me.
For more than ten years, I kept them close to heart.
But tonight, I made an exception.
At midnight, I came across a family of four trying to flag me down.
The moment the husband saw my headlights, he dropped to his knees at the roadside and kept kowtowing.
Their black sedan was sitting crookedly off to the side, as if it had broken down.
All four of them looked badly shaken. I let them climb into my truck.
Pale with fear, the husband told me that a strange red sports car had been chasing them along the mountain road just moments ago.
I told him not to worry. I was driving a heavy truck; no car would dare mess with me.
Just then, the radio began reporting a traffic accident. On the very stretch of mountain road we were driving along, a red sports car and a black sedan had been involved in a serious crash.
The driver of the red sports car had died at the scene.
Earth Master Girl 24: The Yin Guest Beneath the Lake
My dad was a “Yin Guest”-or, in plain terms, a grave tester.
When rich people picked out a burial plot, they would hire someone to spend a night there and see whether the gravesite was clean.
My dad had been in that line of work for years.
Until his last job. When he came home, his body was covered in livor mortis.
Midnight Phoenix
The night before last, I hooked up with a younger guy, only to find out the next day that he was the precious son my client wanted me to escort.
Before leaving for the airport, the young man turned to his mother and said, “You can rest easy with Auntie Que here. No one would dare mess with me except her. Oh, by the way, I finished all the liquor at home yesterday. Remember to buy some more for Grandpa.”
“You silly child, why did you drink so much?”
“…Too much pressure.”
Earth Master Girl: Battle Against the Onmyoji
While we were out at sea on a cruise ship, a tourist from Sakura Country put on a Night Parade of One Hundred Demons for us.
Everyone praised his superb magic tricks, never realizing that every last one of those “demons” was a real ghost.
He used those ghosts to blackmail the other tourists, so I gave him one hell of a slap.
“Within the borders of Huaxia, foreign entities are forbidden to pass!”
What he didn’t know was that I was the one and only Earth Master successor.
Yin-Yang Dog
I am blind, and I make my living reading feng shui.
That day, a seductive woman came to my fortune-telling stall and said she dreamed every night of a man coming to see her.
After I went to her home, the dog she kept caught my attention.
It was clearly a Yin-Yang Dog!
Hunting Game: The Revenge of the Gu King
After my twin sister was bullied at school until she jumped to her death, I took her place and infiltrated the campus.
During break, I received a blood-soaked note of intimidation:
[The prey has returned. The game continues.]
The signature was a Joker with a disturbingly twisted smile.
Everyone was waiting to watch me suffer.
But what they didn’t know was that the roles of prey and hunter had already been quietly reversed.
Because I was the sole heir to the Gu King of Nanjiang.
Cold Palace Maid Becomes Imperial Consort
The transmigrated woman and the Seventh Prince were thrown into the Cold Palace together.
Her mission was to win over the Seventh Prince and get rid of me, the main villain.
But she couldn’t bring herself to do it.
So I picked up a brick and smashed it down hard on the unconscious Seventh Prince.
Once he stopped making a sound, I raised the brick with an icy expression. “Now I’m the Seventh Prince. You can win me over instead.”
Earth Master Girl: Exodus from Egypt
A friend of mine worked at the Egyptian Mummy Museum.
She said something had happened there and asked me to come take a look.
Out of curiosity, I unwrapped the mummy’s bandages.
Beneath layer after layer of linen was my friend’s face. “Lu Lingzhu-“
Chasing the Missing Boy
The parents of a missing boy came to me for help. They wanted me to find their son.
But every sign pointed to the boy already being dead-while his heart was still beating.
Soul-Whip 10: Scapegoat
I had been kidnapped. Me-a burly man nearly two meters tall, with a face that made me look like Zhang Fei-had somehow been abducted and dragged deep into the mountains! I woke up briefly during transport. My hands and feet were bound in iron chains as thick as a forearm, and the slightest movement made a tremendous racket. I didn’t stay conscious for long. Soon, I passed out again. When I woke up the next time, I was lying inside a dilapidated wooden hut. The moment my senses began to return, I caught a thick, overwhelming stench.