The Human Cub Among Monsters

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Genius child singer You Shuang was frail from birth. Her family exploited her endlessly as a money-making tool, and she died of a high fever at the age of four.

After her death, You Shuang was bound to a System and transmigrated to another world where she couldn't understand the language. This world was ruled by grotesque monsters, and humans were kept as pets. To monsters, humans were like cats and dogs are to us.

In exchange for being brought back to life, she had to complete a task: collect every monster card in the encyclopedia.

To fit into life in this other world, You Shuang was picked up by a monster and sent to a human shelter. She decided to complete her task and collect monster cards while returning to her old line of work, singing for money.

Unfortunately, she hadn't fully learned the language yet, so she could only try singing songs from her previous world. To her surprise, the monsters loved them, and the tips they gave her were more than enough to support her. She also found a disabled little black cat with one eye, who became her little darling in this world.

Before long, monsters began inviting her to sing at their homes one after another, and her encyclopedia collection task was going exceptionally well.

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Recently, a little white-haired human stray has become a sensation among monsters.

The little stray has a beautiful voice and sings melodies in an unknown language that have a powerful calming effect on monsters.

The monsters are all itching to take the little stray home, but the moment they see the juvenile Demon King by the stray's side, they quietly pull back their little paws.

So the little stray already belongs to someone, and that someone is their mightiest king.

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The Demon King Luo Wu had slept for ten thousand years when a tender, childlike singing voice woke him.

The little human mistook him for a disabled cat and kept him by her side. Every day, she brushed his fur, cooked him cat food, and sang him to sleep.

"Purr, purr... Meow."

Some Demon King needed only three seconds to decide to start studying How to Pass Yourself Off as a Cat.

[Reading Guide]

1. To monsters, humans are like kittens. A little human stray is a little stray cat.

2. The love interest is the Demon King, who looks like a one-eyed kitten. His true form isn't actually a cat. The protagonist's singing can soothe monsters. The romance begins after they reach adulthood.

3. Beloved by all, adorable pets, healing, slow-paced, sweet everyday fluff.

● Coming soon: Both Young Masters Return to Childhood. Please add it to your reading list in the author's profile at the top right!

Lin Dongye was the fake young master, switched at birth and raised for years in the real young master's place.

When he was twenty, the year his parents died in an accident, the truth came out and the real young master, who had grown up in an orphanage, was brought home.

Their positions were awkward, and they kept out of each other's way until after graduation, when they both got involved in the family business.

The real young master kept targeting Lin Dongye, until Lin Dongye chose to leave.

Before they knew it, their relationship had grown increasingly fraught.

Lin Dongye knew he'd taken years of the other man's life, and felt he owed him. He didn't resent him, though he couldn't help disliking him. After learning he had a terminal illness, he blocked every way the other man could contact him and moved abroad, determined to have nothing more to do with him.

After he died, Lin Dongye was reborn at the age of four.

Given another chance at life, he decided to return everything that belonged to the real young master as soon as possible, so neither of them would owe the other anything.

Climbing out of his toddler bed on little legs, four-year-old Lin Xiaoye told Lin Father and Lin Mother in a babyish voice that he would take them to find their biological child.

The four-year-old real young master was helping his grandmother sell roasted sweet potatoes. When he saw four-year-old Lin Xiaoye, dressed in a tiger hat and looking delicate and pretty, his eyes lit up. He quickly picked out the biggest sweet potato for him.

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Not long after, the real young master was reunited with his birth family and brought back to the Lin household.

Since Lin Dongye's biological parents had died in an accident shortly after his birth, he was also left in the Lin family's care.

The life Lin Dongye imagined after being reborn: keep his distance from the real young master, never fight over anything, live a healthy and sensible life, then leave far away after graduation.

But in reality, every night a little bundle crawled into Lin Dongye's bed, made him call him Big Brother, looked after him like a doll, and wouldn't let any other child get closer to him than they were... Then, when they were adults, he slipped a ring onto Lin Dongye's ring finger and whispered sweet nothings in his ear: "Xiaoye, at last we're on the same household register."

Lin Dongye: ...

How was this different from what he'd expected?

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Much later, Lin Dongye found a locked old diary at home. The password was his birthday.

[Xiaoye seems to have been reborn with me. Why was he so cute as a child?]

[This time, I'll make sure to get in first and lay the foundation for our relationship while we're young.]

[Xiaoye likes this and that xxx. Xiaoye hates this and that xxx.]

[...]

[At last, it's the day we first met in our previous life. It seems he's already forgotten.]

[It doesn't matter. This time, he'll remember me forever.]

The diary's owner was lying on his bed, bare-chested and drunk, calling him darling.

Lin Dongye: ...

#It Wasn't Just Him Who Was Reborn#

1. Both the love interest and the protagonist were reborn, but the protagonist doesn't know at first. The real young master is the love interest.

2. The love interest wasn't truly targeting the protagonist in their previous life. He had his reasons, and he'd fallen for the protagonist long before they were reunited with their family. He couldn't bring himself to speak up in his previous life, but this time he can.

● Completed story about a little one: The Kitten Came from Meow Star. Ready to read!

After Jing Mimi died, she went to Meow Star.

The god of Meow Star told her, "Mimi, welcome to the cat paradise. All the cats here will be your new family."

Mimi let out a meow and burst into tears. "I want Daddy."

In the end, the softhearted Cat God sent the little crybaby back to her daddies.

In exchange, Mimi had to help the Cat God grant the wishes of the kittens on Meow Star.

For example, leaving a cat's favorite foxtail grass toy on its owner's doorstep, putting some hand cream on the hand of a human scratched by a kitten, or giving the new baby in an owner's family a kiss...

On the day the cat he'd raised with his boyfriend for many years died, Jing Zhi had another argument with him and broke down, asking to break up.

Not long afterward, Jing Zhi found a sleeping little child on his doorstep.

The little one never cried or fussed, and loved burrowing into his arms.

Before long, she learned her first sound: "Meow."

After taking some time apart to cool off after the breakup, Jiang Suifeng finally returned from a business trip. He immediately bought a bunch of Jing Zhi's favorite roses and went to apologize and make up with him.

But from a distance, he saw his boyfriend holding a little child. The child kept calling him "Daddy," and looked rather like him.

Jiang Suifeng was struck as if by lightning. His mind went blank, the flowers fell from his hands, and he rushed over to Jing Zhi with red eyes, demanding an explanation.

The little one blinked, then suddenly giggled at him and called him "Daddy" too.

Jing Zhi looked at him as well. "Don't you think the little one looks a bit like you, too?"

[Reading Guide]

1. A healing, slice-of-life story about a little one.

2. Mimi is an abandoned, unhealthy Scottish Fold, but comes back as a healthy little child.

3. Mimi will have a dog sidekick and future partner, a German Shepherd police dog. They're friends as children and only fall in love as adults. The story mainly focuses on their childhood.

4. Mimi heals her daddies and mends their family, makes human friends, grows up alongside her dog childhood friend and future partner, and helps the cats on Meow Star grant their wishes.

5. Scottish Folds are the result of a genetic defect. Please don't breed or buy them!

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Theme: Love life