short series

The Famine Year: Saving a Grateful Ghost Girl

share time: 2025-12-13 06:06:30

In a year of severe drought and famine, refugees are everywhere. Poor scholar Lin Sheng sells his last book for half a cake, only to witness several underworld enforcers attacking a plain-clothed female ghost named Ruan. Out of kindness, Lin uses his own lifespan to block a blow for Ruan. After surviving, Ruan grabs Lin's tattered sleeve and vows to "repay his kindness"—she steals grain for Lin every night, but attracts more vicious enforcers; she heals Lin's critically ill mother, but makes her see ghosts and lose sleep every night; even wants to marry him "to give herself in return". But Lin knows that a human-ghost romance will bring divine punishment. When he finally decides to send Ruan away, she takes out a rotten half-cake: "This is what you gave me before you starved to death in your past life." It turns out Ruan spent a hundred years of lifespan to reincarnate just to find him, and the drought in the famine year is a plot by the underworld to devour the lifespan of all "those who dare to save ghosts"...

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