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我五行缺你
震惊！无辜公务员重生骗子身体，竟是被男人做出这种事……
风水界里都说林逐水无所不知，无所不晓，现在看来，他唯一算错的了，就是他和周嘉鱼的姻缘。
周嘉鱼性温，皮薄肉嫩，骨脆髓香。他万万没想到，自己重生后最担心的事，居然是不要惹某人不高兴以至于解决掉。
周嘉鱼：在重生之前我一直觉得自己会是个坚定的社会主义接班人，直到我变成了骗子，还遇到个算命贼准的大佬。
林逐水：和我在一起不开心吗？
周嘉鱼：开心，我开心死了，大佬要是可以别每天思考关于我的菜单我就更开心了。
林逐水：不可以。
周嘉鱼：……
"My Five Elements Lack You"
The shock! An honest office worker was reborn into the body of a swindler, to think he actually became a man who does this sort of thing…
The feng shui community had always declared Lin Zhushui to be omniscient, but it seems that his only miscalculation was his destined marriage to Zhou Jiayu.
Zhou Jiayu always had a mild nature, his skin was thin and tender, and his bones, brittle and soft. He never expected that what he feared the most after his rebirth wasn’t actually provoking someone’s displeasure.
Zhou Jiayu: Before I was reborn, I had always believed I’d be a devoted socialist successor, but then I became a charlatan and even encountered a big-shot fortune-teller,
Lin Zhushui: Are you happy being with me?
Zhou Jiayu: I’m happy! So happy I could die! But, Boss, if you could just stop thinking about meals with me as a menu item every single day, I’d be even happier.
Lin Zhushui: Not possible.
Zhou Jiayu: …
风水界里都说林逐水无所不知，无所不晓，现在看来，他唯一算错的了，就是他和周嘉鱼的姻缘。
周嘉鱼性温，皮薄肉嫩，骨脆髓香。他万万没想到，自己重生后最担心的事，居然是不要惹某人不高兴以至于解决掉。
周嘉鱼：在重生之前我一直觉得自己会是个坚定的社会主义接班人，直到我变成了骗子，还遇到个算命贼准的大佬。
林逐水：和我在一起不开心吗？
周嘉鱼：开心，我开心死了，大佬要是可以别每天思考关于我的菜单我就更开心了。
林逐水：不可以。
周嘉鱼：……
"My Five Elements Lack You"
The shock! An honest office worker was reborn into the body of a swindler, to think he actually became a man who does this sort of thing…
The feng shui community had always declared Lin Zhushui to be omniscient, but it seems that his only miscalculation was his destined marriage to Zhou Jiayu.
Zhou Jiayu always had a mild nature, his skin was thin and tender, and his bones, brittle and soft. He never expected that what he feared the most after his rebirth wasn’t actually provoking someone’s displeasure.
Zhou Jiayu: Before I was reborn, I had always believed I’d be a devoted socialist successor, but then I became a charlatan and even encountered a big-shot fortune-teller,
Lin Zhushui: Are you happy being with me?
Zhou Jiayu: I’m happy! So happy I could die! But, Boss, if you could just stop thinking about meals with me as a menu item every single day, I’d be even happier.
Lin Zhushui: Not possible.
Zhou Jiayu: …
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Published September 30, 2017
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May 21, 2026
English title: My Five Elements Lack You
I was excited to start this novel after realizing it's by the same author behind Kaleidoscope of Death, but I was kinda disappointed. The MC Zhou Jiayu is reborn into the body of a swindler, but the ML Lin Zhushui decides to save him and they enter somewhat of a master-apprentice relationship and take on various supernatural cases along with the ML's other apprentices. Based on the description, I thought the story was going to be more about feng shui, but some of the cases ended up being quite scary or gross. Definitely not as lighthearted as I was expecting, which threw me off a little bit.
Let me start with the positive. I really liked the comedic tone that the author used. There was a lot of lighthearted bantering between the disciples and especially between MC and the next youngest disciple, Shen Yiqiong, that I enjoyed. That helped to lighten the atmosphere sometimes in the middle of their investigation.
The romance was just okay. It was gradual from the MC's point of view, but the author doesn't describe it well from the ML's perspective. It's not clear when the ML started developing feelings for the MC; it almost felt like he was interested from the beginning and was waiting for the MC to realize his feelings or something. The fact that he gave him a tattoo not long after they met indicates the Lin Zhushui was interested in him from early on, perhaps not romantically but at least he saw something in the MC to pique his interest, perhaps his extreme yang body?
I liked the beginning of the story with the feng shui tournament. The MC has no clue what he's doing, but he somehow muddles through to win the prize through his own innate skills as well as some help from the system in his head. However, the individual cases they work on were hit or miss. Some were interesting, but others were kinda weird or didn't feel fully resolved. Many of the cases have an underlying thread running through them as they're secretly orchestrated by the same individual, but I felt like the climax at the end where they confronted the villain was weak. I was also left very confused by the author's vague explanation of what Jiba was and why he resurrected the MC in this body. Overall I was super underwhelmed by the ending.
**Warning: Spoilers Ahead**
Here are some of the cases they worked on:
-celebrity used some Thai technique to bind her unborn children's souls to their bones saved in a glass jar and used this to become popular
-the murder of an entire family where the parents were famed doll makers
-a haunted mall where the culprit was an angry dragon sealed in the well protesting their well being used as a garbage can for dead bodies
-investigating the village in the middle of nowhere where everyone has two "faces"
-a website that only certain people can enter and allows you to curse someone that's related to the deaths on a newly constructed bridge
-investigating someone trying to resurrect their beloved using corpse cultivation
-MC being haunted by a paper figure who keeps trying to kill him
-a businessman suffering from large money ulcers on his face
-investigating a haunted school where several students and one teacher died
-livestreaming group that films themselves doing all sorts of occult stunts to call supernatural beings
-a group of bloodthirsty dogs raised for fighting that slowly started looking like humans
-getting weird mysterious packages in the mail featuring eyeballs and fingernails
Here are some of the comedic scenes I enjoyed:
Tomorrow was a life-threatening competition, and Zhou Jiayu thought he would be too nervous and afraid to sleep. But in fact, he fell asleep happily within ten minutes of going to bed, and had no such thing as insomnia.
The next day when he got up to wash up, Jiba faintly said, "Lin Zhushui knocked on the door at 10:30 last night."
Zhou Jiayu's mouth was full of foam: "Ah?"
Jiba: "He probably thought you would have insomnia, so he wanted to comfort you."
Zhou Jiayu: "..."
Jiba: "But it seems like he only knocked on the door once and heard your snoring."
Zhou Jiayu's hand shook slightly: "I was even fucking snoring?"
Jiba: "Yes."
Zhou Jiayu: "..."
He, the competitor, fell asleep, and Shen Yiqiong, the non-competitor, had dark circles under his eyes instead. When he saw Zhou Jiayu he asked: "Aren't you very nervous, didn't you have insomnia? My super powerful senior brother lost sleep all night during the competition that year-"
Zhou Jiayu lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Lin Zhushui sitting next to him. He shamelessly lied, "En, I didn't sleep much..."
Lin Zhushui laughed coldly beside him.
-----
Lin Zhushui nodded and said, "You don't have to be too nervous about the competition."
Zhou Jiayu's heart moved and he was about to marvel at how kind Lin Zhushui was to him. But then, Lin Zhushui's next sentence came: "First, I don't insist upon, but at least take second."
Zhou Jiayu: "..."
Lin Zhushui said lightly, "If you want to know what will happen if you can't even get second, go ask Yiqiong."
Zhou Jiayu didn't want to ask at all.
Lin Zhushui said warmly, "Perform well."
Zhou Jiayu: "..." For the first time, he heard Lin Zhushui speak in such a gentle tone without a hint of gentleness at all. He felt that Lin Zhushui was speaking while pressing a knife to his throat.
------
hahaha the MC discovers fanfiction written about him and his master
However, every popular contestant on the website had a separate page. Zhou Jiayu found that Lin Zhushui's popularity was indeed very, very high, and after clicking further, he could even find fanfiction about him.
Zhou Jiayu didn't pay much attention at first, but when he clicked on a post, he realized that something seemed to be wrong. Why was his name also there?
"Lin Zhushui kissed Zhou Jiayu, and their lips met, creating a touching atmosphere. Lin Zhushui said, 'Jiayu.' Zhou Jiayu's eyes were full of tears, and he said in a trembling voice, 'Sir, I am willing..."-Zhou Jiayu looked at this content and fell into a mysterious silence.
------
MC loves cute furry animals and is sad when the weasel doesn't let him pet his head XP
Zhou Jiayu said dejectedly, "I let it down."
Without the ability to pet the weasel, he was just a salted fish that had lost its dreams.
He returned to his room, depressed. Once the weasel saw him leave, it rushed out of a corner of the living room.
Shen Yiqiong spat out a bone and said irresponsibly, "Look, look at how low your ice cream's mood is. He's about to compete, and it's not even certain if he'll come back alive. Yet you can't even bear to part with the fur on your head."
The weasel used its beady black eyes to cast an extremely bitter gaze at Shen Yiqiong. It seemed to be saying, if you were fucking going bald at a young age, wouldn't you be nervous too?
------
Previously, they had only arrived a day before the competition, but this time they arrived a week earlier. As expected, the circumstances were special. The competition organization directly invited professional wilderness survival coaches to instruct them about how to deal with sudden situations, as well as various dangers that could be encountered out in the wilderness. For example, being bitten by a snake, stung by a poisonous insect, chased by bees, or even what to do when encountering a bear.
Zhou Jiayu was already a little confused about whether he was participating in a feng shui competition or a wilderness survival competition.
Like this, a week of training passed. After the course ended, Zhou Jiayu asked the instructor, "Instructor, will this training really be useful?"
The instructor was packing up his things and preparing to leave. When he heard this, he turned around and said kindly, "Of course it will be. After such training, if you encounter any wild beasts during the competition, you can..."
Zhou Jiayu's face was about to reveal a smile, until he heard the instructor finish his sentence: "Die with a little more dignity."
Zhou Jiayu: "..."
------
the running joke throughout the whole novel about Xu Ruwang's hair XP
Xu Jian was furious: 'That Yun Xiu, why did she only tell Zhou Jiayu alone? Is there something wrong with Xu Ruwang?"
Lin Zhushui's voice was gentle: "Maybe it's his bad hairstyle."
Xu Jian: "..." He'd personally shaved that hairstyle for Xu Ruwang.
------
Jiba said, "Don't be afraid, Lin Zhushui's here. Since he's telling you to tag along, he must be confident that he's able to protect you..."
But before it could finish, Zhou Jiayu said, slightly embarrassed, "No no, I'm not afraid. It's just, that... don't you think that this will seem a little bit like we're on a date?"
Jiba fell silent. It looked through Zhou Jiayu's field of vision and saw the rich yellow mist, as well as the twisting spirits inside the mist. It felt some admiration for Zhou Jiayu and had reason to suspect that even if Lin Zhushui invited Zhou Jiayu to dig a grave, Zhou Jiayu would feel that the activity was really quite romantic.
In the end, Jiba said with a heavy tone, "...As long as you're happy."
------
After a brief pause, Shen Yiqiong solemnly asked, "Do you need to pee?"
Zhou Jiayu: "...A little."
Shen Yiqiong said, "A little isn't enough-it has to be a lot!"
Zhou Jiayu: "..." How was it his fault if his kidneys were too good?
Shen Yiqiong explained, "Virgin's urine is highly effective against it. I also have a peachwood sword. After I stab it, it'll definitely come for me. That's when you take your chance-unzip your pants and let it have it!"
Zhou Jiayu was utterly speechless.
------
So the two cowardly guys squeezed onto one bed, and before falling asleep, swore an oath not to open the door for anyone. Opening the door? Impossible. Never in this life. They didn’t know how to catch ghosts, but they were expert cowards. Burrowing under the blankets felt like being home—they loved it in there.
Oddly enough, perhaps their determination rubbed off on the ghosts, because the two death-seeking spirits—who’d been as persistent as underpaid migrant workers demanding their wages—finally gave up.
------
Apparently, he recognized Xiao Mi- but her appearance had changed so drastically that he hadn't noticed at first. And who could blame him? Who would've thought that the cute young streamer from before had now turned into this knife-wielding, rage-filled, bald maniac?
Xu Jian muttered something under his breath.
Standing nearby, Zhou Jiayu heard him clearly. Xu Jian said: "So being bald really does make a difference, huh."
Zhou Jiayu: "......" Master Xu, seriously? Is this really the time to focus on that?
------
“S-Sir?” Zhou Jiayu’s voice trembled as he wondered what Lin Zhushui was going to say.
“I like you.” Lin Zhushui enunciated each word carefully, as if afraid Zhou Jiayu wouldn’t hear him clearly. He even deliberately repeated himself, speaking even more firmly: “I like you.”
The next moment, Zhou Jiayu watched in shock as countless dark shadows leapt from the Ferris wheel’s frame into the air. Most of these shadows were grotesque, clearly not of this world.
Zhou Jiayu was still wondering what they were doing when the shadows suddenly gathered not far from him—forming the shape of a giant heart.
Zhou Jiayu: “…” Only Lin Zhushui could confess like this—even his ghosts love in heart shapes?
------
the ML's failed confession which the MC attributed to a fever dream XP
Zhou Jiayu smiled so wide his eyes became slits. “I… I’ve liked you for so long, sir.”
Hearing this, Lin Zhushui raised an eyebrow. “Then why did you agree to my confession before, only to regret it later?”
Zhou Jiayu blinked. “Before… you confessed?”
“When you had a fever,” Lin Zhushui replied.
Zhou Jiayu fell silent. After a while, he awkwardly asked, “Wh-Which day? I dreamed every night that you were confessing to me…”
Lin Zhushui: “…”
In the end, they both silently decided to skip this topic.
------
Shen Yiqiong's love life (or lack thereof) is a source of great despair for him lol
Shen Yiqiong ran to Zhou Jiayu’s side. “Zhou Jiayu, teach me—how did you win over sir? With that skill, I could find a girlfriend too!”
Zhou Jiayu said, “First—”
Shen Yiqiong looked at him eagerly.
“First,” Zhou Jiayu repeated, “you need to meet a woman.”
Shen Yiqiong: “…” He glanced around at the room full of males. “Why are all the paper figurines male?!”
Zhou Jiayu spread his hands.
Shen Yiqiong collapsed in despair, feeling like that prophecy of falling in love at seventy-three years old might really come true.
------
Everyone was mid-conversation when they watched in stunned silence as the little paper spirit rolled up its sleeves… and grabbed one of the hanged ghosts—and gulp—swallowed it whole.
Zhou Jiayu: “What the—?!”
The others had the same reaction: “What the hell—?!”
“Little Paper!!” Zhou Jiayu scolded. “You can’t just eat random stuff! What if you get a stomachache?!”
The others: “…” Isn’t your focus a little off…?
------
Listening to Xu Jian’s questions, Zhou Jiayu shamelessly said that after being with Lin Zhushui, he felt much more powerful. He could see dirty things more clearly, and he could draw three talismans in one breath without stopping.
Xu Jian was full of disbelief, then shifted his gaze to Xu Ruwang, who was munching on an apple nearby.
Xu Ruwang instantly choked, coughed violently a few times, and with difficulty swallowed the apple, exclaiming in horror: “Master, it’s fine if you mess with my hair, but please don’t actually think about being with me.”
Xu Jian said, “What the hell are you talking about? Am I that kind of master?”
“What kind of master?” Lin Zhushui asked coolly from the side.
“Oh, Mr. Lin, please don’t misunderstand. I mean I’m not the kind of master who would do anything to make his apprentice stronger,” Xu Jian said righteously. “I still have my bottom line.”
Zhou Jiayu glanced at Xu Ruwang’s hairstyle, which had been messed with several times, and thought to himself, “Your words aren’t very convincing.”
I was excited to start this novel after realizing it's by the same author behind Kaleidoscope of Death, but I was kinda disappointed. The MC Zhou Jiayu is reborn into the body of a swindler, but the ML Lin Zhushui decides to save him and they enter somewhat of a master-apprentice relationship and take on various supernatural cases along with the ML's other apprentices. Based on the description, I thought the story was going to be more about feng shui, but some of the cases ended up being quite scary or gross. Definitely not as lighthearted as I was expecting, which threw me off a little bit.
Let me start with the positive. I really liked the comedic tone that the author used. There was a lot of lighthearted bantering between the disciples and especially between MC and the next youngest disciple, Shen Yiqiong, that I enjoyed. That helped to lighten the atmosphere sometimes in the middle of their investigation.
The romance was just okay. It was gradual from the MC's point of view, but the author doesn't describe it well from the ML's perspective. It's not clear when the ML started developing feelings for the MC; it almost felt like he was interested from the beginning and was waiting for the MC to realize his feelings or something. The fact that he gave him a tattoo not long after they met indicates the Lin Zhushui was interested in him from early on, perhaps not romantically but at least he saw something in the MC to pique his interest, perhaps his extreme yang body?
I liked the beginning of the story with the feng shui tournament. The MC has no clue what he's doing, but he somehow muddles through to win the prize through his own innate skills as well as some help from the system in his head. However, the individual cases they work on were hit or miss. Some were interesting, but others were kinda weird or didn't feel fully resolved. Many of the cases have an underlying thread running through them as they're secretly orchestrated by the same individual, but I felt like the climax at the end where they confronted the villain was weak. I was also left very confused by the author's vague explanation of what Jiba was and why he resurrected the MC in this body. Overall I was super underwhelmed by the ending.
**Warning: Spoilers Ahead**
Here are some of the cases they worked on:
-celebrity used some Thai technique to bind her unborn children's souls to their bones saved in a glass jar and used this to become popular
-the murder of an entire family where the parents were famed doll makers
-a haunted mall where the culprit was an angry dragon sealed in the well protesting their well being used as a garbage can for dead bodies
-investigating the village in the middle of nowhere where everyone has two "faces"
-a website that only certain people can enter and allows you to curse someone that's related to the deaths on a newly constructed bridge
-investigating someone trying to resurrect their beloved using corpse cultivation
-MC being haunted by a paper figure who keeps trying to kill him
-a businessman suffering from large money ulcers on his face
-investigating a haunted school where several students and one teacher died
-livestreaming group that films themselves doing all sorts of occult stunts to call supernatural beings
-a group of bloodthirsty dogs raised for fighting that slowly started looking like humans
-getting weird mysterious packages in the mail featuring eyeballs and fingernails
Here are some of the comedic scenes I enjoyed:
Tomorrow was a life-threatening competition, and Zhou Jiayu thought he would be too nervous and afraid to sleep. But in fact, he fell asleep happily within ten minutes of going to bed, and had no such thing as insomnia.
The next day when he got up to wash up, Jiba faintly said, "Lin Zhushui knocked on the door at 10:30 last night."
Zhou Jiayu's mouth was full of foam: "Ah?"
Jiba: "He probably thought you would have insomnia, so he wanted to comfort you."
Zhou Jiayu: "..."
Jiba: "But it seems like he only knocked on the door once and heard your snoring."
Zhou Jiayu's hand shook slightly: "I was even fucking snoring?"
Jiba: "Yes."
Zhou Jiayu: "..."
He, the competitor, fell asleep, and Shen Yiqiong, the non-competitor, had dark circles under his eyes instead. When he saw Zhou Jiayu he asked: "Aren't you very nervous, didn't you have insomnia? My super powerful senior brother lost sleep all night during the competition that year-"
Zhou Jiayu lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Lin Zhushui sitting next to him. He shamelessly lied, "En, I didn't sleep much..."
Lin Zhushui laughed coldly beside him.
-----
Lin Zhushui nodded and said, "You don't have to be too nervous about the competition."
Zhou Jiayu's heart moved and he was about to marvel at how kind Lin Zhushui was to him. But then, Lin Zhushui's next sentence came: "First, I don't insist upon, but at least take second."
Zhou Jiayu: "..."
Lin Zhushui said lightly, "If you want to know what will happen if you can't even get second, go ask Yiqiong."
Zhou Jiayu didn't want to ask at all.
Lin Zhushui said warmly, "Perform well."
Zhou Jiayu: "..." For the first time, he heard Lin Zhushui speak in such a gentle tone without a hint of gentleness at all. He felt that Lin Zhushui was speaking while pressing a knife to his throat.
------
hahaha the MC discovers fanfiction written about him and his master
However, every popular contestant on the website had a separate page. Zhou Jiayu found that Lin Zhushui's popularity was indeed very, very high, and after clicking further, he could even find fanfiction about him.
Zhou Jiayu didn't pay much attention at first, but when he clicked on a post, he realized that something seemed to be wrong. Why was his name also there?
"Lin Zhushui kissed Zhou Jiayu, and their lips met, creating a touching atmosphere. Lin Zhushui said, 'Jiayu.' Zhou Jiayu's eyes were full of tears, and he said in a trembling voice, 'Sir, I am willing..."-Zhou Jiayu looked at this content and fell into a mysterious silence.
------
MC loves cute furry animals and is sad when the weasel doesn't let him pet his head XP
Zhou Jiayu said dejectedly, "I let it down."
Without the ability to pet the weasel, he was just a salted fish that had lost its dreams.
He returned to his room, depressed. Once the weasel saw him leave, it rushed out of a corner of the living room.
Shen Yiqiong spat out a bone and said irresponsibly, "Look, look at how low your ice cream's mood is. He's about to compete, and it's not even certain if he'll come back alive. Yet you can't even bear to part with the fur on your head."
The weasel used its beady black eyes to cast an extremely bitter gaze at Shen Yiqiong. It seemed to be saying, if you were fucking going bald at a young age, wouldn't you be nervous too?
------
Previously, they had only arrived a day before the competition, but this time they arrived a week earlier. As expected, the circumstances were special. The competition organization directly invited professional wilderness survival coaches to instruct them about how to deal with sudden situations, as well as various dangers that could be encountered out in the wilderness. For example, being bitten by a snake, stung by a poisonous insect, chased by bees, or even what to do when encountering a bear.
Zhou Jiayu was already a little confused about whether he was participating in a feng shui competition or a wilderness survival competition.
Like this, a week of training passed. After the course ended, Zhou Jiayu asked the instructor, "Instructor, will this training really be useful?"
The instructor was packing up his things and preparing to leave. When he heard this, he turned around and said kindly, "Of course it will be. After such training, if you encounter any wild beasts during the competition, you can..."
Zhou Jiayu's face was about to reveal a smile, until he heard the instructor finish his sentence: "Die with a little more dignity."
Zhou Jiayu: "..."
------
the running joke throughout the whole novel about Xu Ruwang's hair XP
Xu Jian was furious: 'That Yun Xiu, why did she only tell Zhou Jiayu alone? Is there something wrong with Xu Ruwang?"
Lin Zhushui's voice was gentle: "Maybe it's his bad hairstyle."
Xu Jian: "..." He'd personally shaved that hairstyle for Xu Ruwang.
------
Jiba said, "Don't be afraid, Lin Zhushui's here. Since he's telling you to tag along, he must be confident that he's able to protect you..."
But before it could finish, Zhou Jiayu said, slightly embarrassed, "No no, I'm not afraid. It's just, that... don't you think that this will seem a little bit like we're on a date?"
Jiba fell silent. It looked through Zhou Jiayu's field of vision and saw the rich yellow mist, as well as the twisting spirits inside the mist. It felt some admiration for Zhou Jiayu and had reason to suspect that even if Lin Zhushui invited Zhou Jiayu to dig a grave, Zhou Jiayu would feel that the activity was really quite romantic.
In the end, Jiba said with a heavy tone, "...As long as you're happy."
------
After a brief pause, Shen Yiqiong solemnly asked, "Do you need to pee?"
Zhou Jiayu: "...A little."
Shen Yiqiong said, "A little isn't enough-it has to be a lot!"
Zhou Jiayu: "..." How was it his fault if his kidneys were too good?
Shen Yiqiong explained, "Virgin's urine is highly effective against it. I also have a peachwood sword. After I stab it, it'll definitely come for me. That's when you take your chance-unzip your pants and let it have it!"
Zhou Jiayu was utterly speechless.
------
So the two cowardly guys squeezed onto one bed, and before falling asleep, swore an oath not to open the door for anyone. Opening the door? Impossible. Never in this life. They didn’t know how to catch ghosts, but they were expert cowards. Burrowing under the blankets felt like being home—they loved it in there.
Oddly enough, perhaps their determination rubbed off on the ghosts, because the two death-seeking spirits—who’d been as persistent as underpaid migrant workers demanding their wages—finally gave up.
------
Apparently, he recognized Xiao Mi- but her appearance had changed so drastically that he hadn't noticed at first. And who could blame him? Who would've thought that the cute young streamer from before had now turned into this knife-wielding, rage-filled, bald maniac?
Xu Jian muttered something under his breath.
Standing nearby, Zhou Jiayu heard him clearly. Xu Jian said: "So being bald really does make a difference, huh."
Zhou Jiayu: "......" Master Xu, seriously? Is this really the time to focus on that?
------
“S-Sir?” Zhou Jiayu’s voice trembled as he wondered what Lin Zhushui was going to say.
“I like you.” Lin Zhushui enunciated each word carefully, as if afraid Zhou Jiayu wouldn’t hear him clearly. He even deliberately repeated himself, speaking even more firmly: “I like you.”
The next moment, Zhou Jiayu watched in shock as countless dark shadows leapt from the Ferris wheel’s frame into the air. Most of these shadows were grotesque, clearly not of this world.
Zhou Jiayu was still wondering what they were doing when the shadows suddenly gathered not far from him—forming the shape of a giant heart.
Zhou Jiayu: “…” Only Lin Zhushui could confess like this—even his ghosts love in heart shapes?
------
the ML's failed confession which the MC attributed to a fever dream XP
Zhou Jiayu smiled so wide his eyes became slits. “I… I’ve liked you for so long, sir.”
Hearing this, Lin Zhushui raised an eyebrow. “Then why did you agree to my confession before, only to regret it later?”
Zhou Jiayu blinked. “Before… you confessed?”
“When you had a fever,” Lin Zhushui replied.
Zhou Jiayu fell silent. After a while, he awkwardly asked, “Wh-Which day? I dreamed every night that you were confessing to me…”
Lin Zhushui: “…”
In the end, they both silently decided to skip this topic.
------
Shen Yiqiong's love life (or lack thereof) is a source of great despair for him lol
Shen Yiqiong ran to Zhou Jiayu’s side. “Zhou Jiayu, teach me—how did you win over sir? With that skill, I could find a girlfriend too!”
Zhou Jiayu said, “First—”
Shen Yiqiong looked at him eagerly.
“First,” Zhou Jiayu repeated, “you need to meet a woman.”
Shen Yiqiong: “…” He glanced around at the room full of males. “Why are all the paper figurines male?!”
Zhou Jiayu spread his hands.
Shen Yiqiong collapsed in despair, feeling like that prophecy of falling in love at seventy-three years old might really come true.
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Everyone was mid-conversation when they watched in stunned silence as the little paper spirit rolled up its sleeves… and grabbed one of the hanged ghosts—and gulp—swallowed it whole.
Zhou Jiayu: “What the—?!”
The others had the same reaction: “What the hell—?!”
“Little Paper!!” Zhou Jiayu scolded. “You can’t just eat random stuff! What if you get a stomachache?!”
The others: “…” Isn’t your focus a little off…?
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Listening to Xu Jian’s questions, Zhou Jiayu shamelessly said that after being with Lin Zhushui, he felt much more powerful. He could see dirty things more clearly, and he could draw three talismans in one breath without stopping.
Xu Jian was full of disbelief, then shifted his gaze to Xu Ruwang, who was munching on an apple nearby.
Xu Ruwang instantly choked, coughed violently a few times, and with difficulty swallowed the apple, exclaiming in horror: “Master, it’s fine if you mess with my hair, but please don’t actually think about being with me.”
Xu Jian said, “What the hell are you talking about? Am I that kind of master?”
“What kind of master?” Lin Zhushui asked coolly from the side.
“Oh, Mr. Lin, please don’t misunderstand. I mean I’m not the kind of master who would do anything to make his apprentice stronger,” Xu Jian said righteously. “I still have my bottom line.”
Zhou Jiayu glanced at Xu Ruwang’s hairstyle, which had been messed with several times, and thought to himself, “Your words aren’t very convincing.”
December 1, 2021
What can I say? Good ol' reliable author. Just the right story to pull me out of the slump.
I love the MC. He's cute, funny and although scared, he's not annoying. Although the story follows a simple format, the result is great; it's enjoyable, interesting and most importantly, managed to give the readers a good time. The horror is also on point. In the end, the living were more scary than the dead is all we can come to conclusion.
On the other hand, maybe it's because of my recent state of mind (had a conversation about great aunt's death, discussion on whether it's an accident or suicide), I was pretty spooked by some of the arcs. It doesn't help that I read this before I sleep hence my dreams were pretty bizarre these few days.
As for whether this or KOD is scarier, I personally feel this is scarier maybe because...it's closer to reality? As for KOD, my mind had automatically converted it into fantasy because of the doors so I'm less afraid? Anyway, I absolutely love this author's horror BLs, they're delicious!
I love the MC. He's cute, funny and although scared, he's not annoying. Although the story follows a simple format, the result is great; it's enjoyable, interesting and most importantly, managed to give the readers a good time. The horror is also on point. In the end, the living were more scary than the dead is all we can come to conclusion.
On the other hand, maybe it's because of my recent state of mind (had a conversation about great aunt's death, discussion on whether it's an accident or suicide), I was pretty spooked by some of the arcs. It doesn't help that I read this before I sleep hence my dreams were pretty bizarre these few days.
As for whether this or KOD is scarier, I personally feel this is scarier maybe because...it's closer to reality? As for KOD, my mind had automatically converted it into fantasy because of the doors so I'm less afraid? Anyway, I absolutely love this author's horror BLs, they're delicious!
February 27, 2024
Humble government worker Zhou Jiayu dies in a car crash and finds himself thrust into the world of fengshui when he transmigrates into the body of someone with his exact same name—the fraudulent fengshui master Zhou Jiayu whose crimes have cost lives. He is captured by Lin Zhushui, a blind fengshui master that he has been brought back to save from certain death.
A really fun read for about 30 or so chapters, with some delicious angst at the end.
I think I would recommend reading this til the end of the tournament arc (before it gets to the “main plot”) and skipping to the dog case (a traumatic but excellent standalone horror episode) and the last few chapters as well as Lin Jue's parts. She turned out to be the most well-written character in the entire novel even though she's kind of the token jiejie side character while everyone else is just sort of... plays their part..
The author is very good at one-off horror mysteries with cute critters and comedy, but very bad at writing bigger arcs. If this had just been a series of horror episodes and interconnected short stories, or if it had been like 40 chapters shorter, I would have loved it! Unfortunately, there had to be a plot, which simply just was not plotting...
A really fun read for about 30 or so chapters, with some delicious angst at the end.
I think I would recommend reading this til the end of the tournament arc (before it gets to the “main plot”) and skipping to the dog case (a traumatic but excellent standalone horror episode) and the last few chapters as well as Lin Jue's parts. She turned out to be the most well-written character in the entire novel even though she's kind of the token jiejie side character while everyone else is just sort of... plays their part..
The author is very good at one-off horror mysteries with cute critters and comedy, but very bad at writing bigger arcs. If this had just been a series of horror episodes and interconnected short stories, or if it had been like 40 chapters shorter, I would have loved it! Unfortunately, there had to be a plot, which simply just was not plotting...
October 28, 2025
看这本书的时候还不知道西子绪是灵异专业户，以为是小甜文就开始看了，结果吓死我了……感情剧情线都不错，就是吓到后面有点麻木了
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