This Snake Demon Isn't Playing by the Rules

Xu Yu's morning takes a bizarre turn when he wakes up as a gourd—yes, a gourd. Destiny has cast him as a demon catcher, and his fellow gourds are dropping from the vine one by one, each transforming into primordial powerhouses with grand ambitions. Big Gourd vows to shatter fate itself. Second Gourd seeks enlightenment through compassion. Third Gourd? Pure fist-fueled domination. But when Xu Yu finally encounters the snake spirit he's fated to capture, everything goes sideways. She's devastatingly beautiful, effortlessly elegant, completely uninterested in gourd children—and demands he kneel a…