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Turning Trash into Treasure: I Picked Up a Fake-Dead Medusa at the Start

share time: 2026-02-11 12:40:51

Lin Chuan, the "junk king" of an urban village scrap yard, found a "broken statue" wrapped in a bronze coffin in an old warehouse one day—only to discover it was Medusa, who faked her death to escape the temple's pursuit! Her eyes hold a petrification curse; once awake, she unconsciously harms anyone nearby. But Lin Chuan refused to run away. He covered her with old blankets, left hot milk tea, and chatted to the coffin: "I saw your eyelashes move—you must think I talk too much, right?" One morning, Medusa opened her eyes clutching the glass marble he gave her. Before she could tell him to leave, Lin Chuan leaned in with a smile: "Finally awake? I made porridge, with your favorite sugar." At that moment, the temple's silver arrows pierced the scrap yard's door—for the first time, Medusa thought: for this man who treats even "trash" as treasure, she'd risk her thousand-year life, even if she ends up petrified herself...

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