The Beautiful Widower's Guide to the Top

Blurb: According to the laws of the Beastfolk Empire, a half-beast whose husband has died must remarry a beastfolk within a year, bringing their property along. Shen Yutu wept like a flower in the rain at her late husband's funeral.

Her late husband's younger brother lifted her veil and said, "I inherit the family, and you as well." An old flame he'd once abandoned whispered in her ear, "It's time you paid for leaving me." Even the man who was technically her older brother watched her intently with an inscrutable gaze...

The beastfolk on the list of potential husbands: "What, your husband died? That's wonderful! Oh, I don't mean it like that. I deeply regret your husband's death. It's a blessing for me, no, you've got it wrong. I just mean that life is unpredictable, and your husband did pick a pretty convenient time to go."

Shen Yutu looked at her suitors, each different from the last, and sobbed that she would remain chaste for her late husband. In private, her neck, tightly concealed by her collar, was covered in suggestive marks.

As a law-abiding dodder spirit, Shen Yutu was troubled. Which lover should she choose as her next Host to cling to and parasitize?

A carnivorous dodder spirit, a low-morals, everyone-loves-her bottom.

Reader's Guide:

1. This is a fictional setting and has no connection to reality. Please don't apply it to real life.

2. The story centers on the protagonist, a bottom adored by all beastfolk. Every character she's been involved with loves only the protagonist, body and soul.

3. The bottom is a dodder spirit who clings and parasitizes. When her Host dies, she moves on to the next one.

4. Everyone is twisted and rotten.

5. The protagonist will marry three times, to an earl, a duke, and the emperor of the empire.

Theme: The dodder flower's language is overcoming hardship