Beware of Chicken

A laugh-out-loud, slice-of-life martial-arts fantasy about . . . farming????

Jin Rou wanted to be a cultivator. A man powerful enough to defy the heavens. A master of martial arts. A lord of spiritual power. Unfortunately for him, he died, and now I’m stuck in his body.

Arrogant Masters? Heavenly Tribulations? All that violence and bloodshed? Yeah, no thanks. I’m getting out of here.

Farm life sounds pretty great. Tilling a field by hand is fun when you’ve got the strength of ten men—though maybe I shouldn’t have fed those Spirit Herbs to my pet rooster. I’m not used to seeing a chicken move with such grace . . . but Qi makes everything kind of wonky, so it’s probably fine.

Instead of a lifetime of battle, my biggest concerns are building a house, the size of my harvest, and the way the girl from the nearby village glares at me when I tease her.

A slow, simple, fulfilling life in a place where nothing exciting or out of the ordinary ever happens . . . right?

Explore our curated pairings below to create your own cozy moment and bring this story to life.
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Beware of Chicken

This title is not currently available for purchase at The Cozy Lantern Archive, but you can still check out our hand selected cozy pairings below.

Beware of Chicken

This title is not currently available for purchase at The Cozy Lantern Archive, but you can still check out our hand selected cozy pairings below.

Cozy Pairings

Each pairing is chosen to create a cozy moment where scent, story, and craft come together.
Brown Sugar Cinnamon

Brown Sugar Cinnamon is a warm, bakery-inspired fragrance that wraps you in the comforting sweetness of brown sugar and melted butter, gently spiced with cinnamon. Rich and inviting, this scent evokes the feeling of something freshly baked lingering in the air, soft and golden with just a touch of indulgence. Smooth and well balanced, it brings a sense of warmth and familiarity to any space, creating a cozy atmosphere that feels both nostalgic and comforting.

Why we chose this: Jin Rou died and was reborn into a fantasy world with the strength of ten men, and immediately decided to use it for farming. Now he has a Spirit Beast rooster, a wife, a talking pig, a deeply philosophical ox, and the most contented life in the Azure Hills. Brown Sugar Cinnamon is the candle for every book in this series, warm and golden and alive with the smell of a harvest brought in with genuine satisfaction, the scent of a life made small on purpose and enormously rich as a result. Light this candle and let the sweetness fill the room like a farmhouse kitchen at the end of a long growing season, where the rice is in and the animals are fed and everything is exactly as it should be.

Ceramic pairings coming soon!