A Haunted Apartment, but the Cross-Dressing Boss Won't Stop Throwing Himself at Me [GB]

[Completed novel, In Love with Nonhumans in a Horror Game, is having a giveaway! The upcoming novel, Cannon Fodder, but Coveted by a Celestial Dragon Sentinel, is looking for a blurb at the very bottom!]

Straightforward, funny woman x pretentious, scheming nonhuman

Xie Yan transmigrates into a horror comic as a random passerby, moves into Blissful Tower, and gets ready for an unhappy life.

Everywhere in this place feels eerie. By day, it seems like a perverted serial killer could burst out at any moment and send her to her grave. In her dreams, hideous, sanity-draining monsters frighten her and demand that she move out.

But first, the rent is reasonable. Second, her landlord is a gorgeous 183-centimeter-tall, neurotic JK beauty, and the two of them are sick in compatible ways, so her favorability rating shoots up by 20 on the spot. Xie Yan refuses to move out.

Besides, he's just a little sharp-tongued, a little fussy, and a little confused about his gender identity. But he only charges 500 in rent. What could he possibly be up to?

Qi Zheng thinks he's up to plenty.

The floors of this tower, from the first to the thirteenth, correspond to bosses of different levels. He is the highest-ranking evil spirit here. Every living and dead thing that comes here wants to kill him and take his place. The rest goes without saying.

Everyone else stays as far away from him as possible, but this fearless idiot shows up at his door right then and asks to rent a room.

There is no greed or malice in her eyes, only pure appreciation for his pretty face and exquisite makeup. His soul happens to need nourishment from another person, and his lower half, a monstrous beast, needs someone to clean up after it. So he can let such a wonderful thing live in his house.

Qi Zheng thinks he's a genius, because the person he kept around to clean up after him really is interesting.

When she catches him eating a hand bone in the middle of the night, she turns pale and says it looks like a huge chicken foot, then compliments his teeth.

At night, when she sees him slaughtering trash, she pretends to sleepwalk and awkwardly floats past him on trembling legs.

In her dreams, she sees his true form, wet and sticky, like a mass of oil covered in eyes, and gets so scared she turns into a screaming chicken darting all over the place.

And by day... she brings him warm brown sugar water and awkwardly asks after his nonexistent "period."

Qi Zheng used to think of her as a shallow pretty-face lover, a coward, a faker, an avoider, a comedian, and as dumb as a pig.

She could stay here until the day he was killed, because she was very good at making him happy.

The days passed.

Now Qi Zheng thinks of her as someone with an eye for beauty, restrained, calm, decisive, funny, and clever as a goddess.

He can keep her for the rest of her life. He won't eat her.

But a rabbit will bite when cornered, and a straightforward woman can go crazy. The next time he toyed with her in a dream, she ate him.

Faced with the nonhuman evil god who had tormented her in her dreams until she was on the verge of a mental breakdown, Xie Yan, who had finally snapped, grabbed a kitchen knife and chased him around the dream, hacking away as she eagerly explored the mysteries of the evil god's anatomy.

"Don't you like scaring people? Try scaring your big sister again!"

The faceless evil god sobbed in the dream, while the mentally unstable Xie Yan grinned.

From that day on, her nightmares took on a different flavor, and subtle changes began to happen in reality, too.

The horror comic seemed to turn into a dating game. One day, her long-legged JK "female" landlord blushed and said to her, "Hey, want to see my special CG?"

[Male Lead's Version]

In that dream where his tentacles were chopped off, he could feel his severed limbs slide down her throat and into her stomach.

So comfortable, so warm, so hot, so agonizing.

Ah... The silly woman ate him. He was tainted now.

She had to take responsibility. They were already together, and they had to stay together.

"Why are you running away? What do you mean, 'the language of straight girls' flowers isn't kissing women all the time'? I'm a straight man!"

[------ Blurb for the upcoming novel, Cannon Fodder, but Coveted by a Celestial Dragon Sentinel ------]

One day, she transmigrates into a book as an unlucky cannon fodder destined to die young.

A mother with a terminal illness, a self-reliant daughter, and a dog with a lame leg: together, they make up a broken family.

With no other choice, she joins the underground world of guides, "this family," in addition to her regular job as a butcher.

On her first job, she breaks down and takes off her gloves, then follows the instructions and places the other person's long, slender neck in her palm.

The impeccably dressed doctor blushes and speaks in a low, husky voice. "We each get what we need. You're just testing methods of soothing sentinels on me."

This bizarre method seems to be a bit of a con, but it works surprisingly well.

Every sentinel she works with says good things about her, especially those Celestial Dragons who think the world belongs to them.

They start by warning her with contempt: "Lowborn, know your place."

Then they plead with her in anguish: "Miss Guide, what am I to you, really?"

Later, they humbly beg her: "Miss Fu Xing, please be kind to me."

Fu Xing: ?

Are they asking for a human skin-sealing blessing? That's a bit forward!

Their pure, mutually beneficial relationship mustn't be tainted by romantic feelings!

"They really are going too far," says the most easygoing person among them. "If you like, I'll take care of all of this for you."

Fu Xing thinks he's up to no good. "So, kid, what's the price?"

He kneels on one knee and kisses her toes. "I'm different from them. I want nothing at all."

I only ask that you be my one and only god.

[------ Author's Notes ------]

1. The JK skirt here is a style of clothing, not an indication of the male lead's age. He is not a female high school student. He is over 18, but always pretends to be young in front of the female lead and says he's 18.

2. The male lead's monstrous lower half usually looks a lot like a kitten.

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