How Did I Not Know I Was the Lord of Pollution?

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[Time Loop + Wasteland + Lovecraftian Horror + Sci-Fi + Mystery]

In a wasteland world, pollution devours the land.

Shi Qian, an F-rank psychic support soldier, survived a mission in a heavily polluted zone that should have been certain death, but her memories were fractured.

From that day on, the world began to feel very wrong.

At first, she saw herself gnawing on something strange.

She heard mindless pollutants whispering inside her head.

Later, the pollutants that terrified humanity began to tremble and flee at the sight of her, even dropping to their knees and calling her in trembling voices:

"Master."

She thought she had finally awakened SSS-rank psychic powers.

Until one day, Shi Qian saw something behind her in the reflection in an S-rank pollutant's terrified eyes.

It was a gigantic pollutant, perched on her shoulder, slowly opening its eyes.

-

Ye Xun, the Northern Front's highest-ranking commander, had a secret:

Every night, he would slip into Shi Qian's room, then leave before dawn.

Rumors spread through the legion, but no one knew what happened in the dark.

Only Ye Xun knew.

He had personally killed the warm body before him twelve times.

Now, she had returned from the dead once more.

And she was carrying a giant pollutant that only he could see.

-

"Commander, I had no choice before, but now I want to be a good person. Someone like me, who has brought ruin to all living things, can I still become an excellent soldier?"

"You can, on one condition."

"What condition?"

"Take the tentacles wrapped around my neck... and pull them back."

The air froze for a second.

Then Shi Qian's lips moved, revealing an innocent smile that wasn't hers:

"Oops, you caught me ^_^"

[Reader's Guide]

- BG romance, equal parts plot and romance, with a light ensemble cast

Pre-release: "The Popular Wife and Her Useless Husband [Nonhuman]"

1/

Two years ago, Shi Su married a man she had met through a matchmaking service, just to get her family off her back about marriage.

His name was Song Zhi. He was steady and reliable, and though his income was meager, he was exceptionally handsome, willing to remain childless, and extremely frigid.

For Shi Su, a fiercely career-minded woman who was just as frigid, he was the perfect contract spouse sent from heaven.

After they married, Shi Su's career took off, and she became a renowned investor in her industry.

Her husband continued his uneventful work as an ordinary office clerk.

Everyone said Shi Su had married a useless freeloader, but she didn't care.

Then Song Zhi survived a car accident.

Shi Su discovered that her taciturn, stiff, and self-restrained husband had undergone a drastic change in temperament.

He was constantly hovering around her, bringing her tea and water, for starters.

Whenever Shi Su so much as glanced at another man, he would tug at her clothes, trembling with hurt as he said, "Honey, am I useless? Please don't leave me..."

He had even become insatiable in bed. If she refused, he would plead with reddened eyes, trembling as he kissed her fingertips. "Honey, really... can't we?"

2/

Eris came from the planet Chaos.

It was an absolute matriarchy, where all males had to endure brutal competition against one another and survive on resources granted by females.

If a male failed to serve a female well, he would be cast aside, or even killed.

During a brief overlap between dimensions, Eris transmigrated to Earth and took over the identity of a dying native male.

The man's name was Song Zhi, and he had a wealthy female spouse with a commanding presence and a graceful figure.

Such a top-tier female was the greatest blessing the heavens could have bestowed upon him.

So Eris went to every possible length to put his instinct for serving and competing with other males to use, including but not limited to:

Skillfully wielding household appliances and cooking nutritious meals for his wife every day (while secretly adding trace amounts of pheromones to make her dependent on him).

Quietly disposing of every inferior Earth male who tried to get close to his wife.

And putting everything he had learned to good use to serve his wife in bed.

But he soon realized that his spouse was so dazzling she didn't even know it, and a group of annoying Earth males were coveting her.

To keep his wife from being stolen, Eris had no choice but to hide the truth from Shi Su, rave at those damned rivals, "I don't want anything, I just want my wife!", and bare his sharp fangs and inhuman tentacles to... clean them all up ^_^

3/

One day, Shi Su discovered her husband's inhuman secret and slapped a divorce agreement down on the table.

Song Zhi dropped to his knees at her feet and clung to her with all four limbs:

"Honey, I was wrong. You don't have to love me, but you can't leave me. The males out there are all so filthy. I'm more handsome, richer, stronger, easier to take care of, and I can make you feel so good in bed..."

"Ah!" Shi Su blushed and covered Song Zhi's mouth.

Eris scooped his wife into his arms and carried her to bed, gazing at her flushed face.

Good. His wife's shyness was a husband's glory.

A bewitching, sharp-minded heroine who doesn't know her own allure × A mild-mannered green-tea type in public, a possessive nonhuman male lead in private

[Reader's Guide]

- BG romance (emphasis), one-on-one, both virgins, HE, strong female lead and male lead who pretends to be weak

- The male lead is nonhuman and has a nonhuman form. He pretends to be weak in front of the heroine due to his alien instincts for male competition, but is powerful by nature

Theme: Fate is mine to control