I Became an Urban Legend by Pretending to Be a God

Shen Yan is twenty-six this year, and his greatest skill is—pretending. Extorted on the subway, mocked at blind dates, chased for rent by his landlord—he has pretended to be a "loser" for ten years. Until that rainy night, when he picks up an old book with no words at an old bookstall. The pages turn by themselves, and characters float out one by one: The Scripture of Deliverance from Suffering. It's not a martial arts manual, nor a pop-up panel; it only tells him three things—who is lying, who will die, and how much the "gods" of this world are really worth. So he opens a Half-Immortal Hall and takes on commissions others dare not accept: the haunted back wall of a cafeteria, the red-clad woman who died in someone's place, the bone flute in the ghost market that trades life for life. He plays the reclusive master, calculating all under heaven, but misses only one thing—the woman carrying a red lantern, who investigates him all the way to the gates of the Imperial Observatory. "Mr. Shen, you play the part quite well." "Miss, you investigate quite well too." Urban supernatural powers × playing the pig to eat the tiger × suspenseful mysticism. Some want to use his name to become immortals; he just wants to finish this job and save enough for the next round of incense money. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: I Became an Urban Legend by Pretending to Be a God — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠