My Girlfriend Is a Vampire Bureaucrat

[Main story complete. The bonus chapters are still coming along slowly.]

A younger, love-struck vampire top × an older, levelheaded human bottom, gentle on the outside but strong-willed within

Before meeting Tan Feizhou, Lin Ran had more or less come to terms with the idea that she would spend her whole life alone.

She knew her sexual orientation well enough, but she had never been in love with a particular person. Day after day, she devoted herself to work.

But Tan Feizhou was different. Lin Ran loved how she rubbed her head against her like a puppy, and how she deliberately acted coy just to see her reaction. There was always a carefree smile in the corners of her eyes, and Lin Ran was all she ever looked at.

Lin Ran had thought this was simply one not-so-rational romance in her otherwise rational life.

Until she discovered that Tan Feizhou was staying out all night, secretly going shopping with someone else, and even had ties to a string of disappearances.

Was she cheating?

But why on earth was Tan Feizhou a vampire?

And a member of the Special Affairs Administration, of all things, tasked with handling matters involving nonhuman races.

Lin Ran stared at Tan Feizhou's suddenly red eyes and bared fangs, took a closer look at her cool, pale skin, then glanced at the badge she was being shown.

Her girlfriend was a vampire? She really hadn't been prepared for that.

She tried to calm herself down, but then remembered an important question.

“So,” she said, fixing Tan Feizhou with a sharp gaze, “how old are you, exactly? You even pretended to be younger and called me ‘sis.’”

“Twenty-six,” the other woman answered honestly.

!

Twenty-six! Not 260, not 2,600, but twenty-six!

Lin Ran fell silent. She thought about vampires' thousand-year lifespans, then looked back at her girlfriend, who was blinking innocently at her.

In human years, that age was probably… too young to roll over yet?

Lin Ran's mouth twitched. She stood up decisively, no longer looking at the vampire pretending to be innocent.

“Sorry, let's break up. I don't date babies.”

“As a parting gift, I can introduce you to a lawyer who can report your organization for employing child labor.”

When Tan Feizhou was eight, she watched a vampire on television go mad with love and voiced the first question of her vampire life:

Why do vampires have to fall in love with humans?

For years afterward, she was sick of artistic works that depicted her kind as either villains or hopeless romantics.

Years later, all her preconceptions were shattered one ordinary afternoon.

The moment she met Lin Ran, there was only one thought in her mind: I'm in love with a human.

But love is never the end of the story.

Vampires don't age. Humans die.

Between them stretched the long passage of time.

Fortunately, neither of them lacked courage.

Next book: How Can a Kept Canary Pretending to Be Poor Avoid Getting Found Out? Coming in mid-to-late April

Formerly poor, honest college student turned CEO, younger top × fake-poor, flirtatious, scheming canary, older bottom

Yue Lai juggled her studies, tutoring, and a job waiting tables. Every penny she earned went into her startup, leaving her life busy and broke.

She had two secrets.

The first was that she had fallen in love at first sight with her new neighbor. The second was that her new neighbor's line of work seemed a little unsavory.

Her neighbor, Nan Tu, was a beautiful woman, with slightly upturned eyes that gave her a lazy air, red lips and bright teeth. Every frown and smile of hers tugged at the heartstrings.

Ever since Nan Tu moved in, Yue Lai would hear strange, somewhat suggestive noises at night. The next day, Nan Tu would have bruises on her body.

This was the cheapest neighborhood in the city, home to poor people, hooligans, and… people who sold their bodies.

Yue Lai didn't dare think too much about it, but couldn't help worrying.

So one day, she gathered her courage, took out her savings, and knocked on the door next door.

“My money might not be enough, but could you stop taking those rude clients? Of course, I'm not looking down on your profession. I just… I just don't want you to get hurt.”

Nan Tu leaned against the doorframe, looking her up and down with a drowsy, lazy smile.

“Little girl, are you saying… you want to keep me?”

Yue Lai's cheeks turned bright red. “…N-no!”

But as she gazed at the woman's gorgeous face, her heart pounded. Her words took a turn, and, bewitched, she blurted out, “Be my girlfriend! I can support you for the rest of your life!”

From then on, Yue Lai had a new girlfriend, and at last, a home of her own.

Around the same time, her company secured angel investment, and everything began to fall into place.

Looking at Nan Tu's designer knockoff handbag, Yue Lai declared proudly, “Once I make money, I'll buy you the real thing!”

Nan Tu smiled sweetly, tucked the receipt she had forgotten to throw away when buying the bag into the back of her wardrobe, and slipped in the contract for her investment in Yue Lai's company as well.

Then she put a piece of wild beltfish, cooked by a five-star hotel chef, into Yue Lai's bowl and said, “The fish was on sale at the market today, so I bought one. Give it a try.”

After retiring, Nan Tu opened a security company. She was practically semi-retired when, out of obligation, she took one last job. The address was in the most remote old apartment block. Boring.

Her neighbor was a college student. Every time Nan Tu saw her, she was hurrying somewhere, and when they met, she always seemed honest and blushed so much she couldn't even let her eyes wander.

A good girl.

So when Yue Lai cautiously unzipped her bag and showed Nan Tu a stack of yuan, saying she wanted to keep her, Nan Tu laughed so hard her whole body shook. She wiped away the tears squeezed from the corners of her eyes and took a long while to catch her breath. Without even looking, she zipped up the bag and said, “All right, I accept.”

She lifted her head and looked Yue Lai over.

“Kid, you're my boss now.”

So what if the good girl had misunderstood her?

Nan Tu had never said what line of work she was in.

Besides, Nan Tu glanced disdainfully at the shabby bag. This money wouldn't even cover one of her meals. And Yue Lai thought she could keep a canary with that? It wasn't even enough to keep a polyester-fiber canary.

She could have a little fun with the kid. At worst, she'd pay her back a little extra.

Later, Nan Tu was pinned against the floor-to-ceiling windows on the top floor of the company, her cheeks flushed and her body weak.

Yue Lai's long fingers slipped into her expensive custom-made dress and caressed her. Her breath was hot.

“President Nan, business depends on keeping your word. I said I'd support you for the rest of your life. Now I'm here to make good on that promise.”

Shaking and utterly overwhelmed, Nan Tu could think of only one thing:

I'm doomed. How did I end up paying for everything, principal and interest?

Both are each other's first and only, 1v1

Also known as: What Should I Do After My Poor Sugar Mommy Finds Out I'm Pretending to Be Poor?

“About How I Funded a College Girl's Startup and Then Had Her Support Me”

Theme: Strive to live well