A Guide to Evaluating Your Nonhuman Pet

Before transmigrating, Liu Tu's biggest dream was to be reborn as a pedigree cat or dog with a wonderful original family. She could wreck the house and be praised, get into trouble and be comforted. The goal was to live off others and do nothing.

Instead, after working herself to death in this life, she opened her eyes in a spacefaring age crawling with tentacle monsters, mechanical species, abyssal behemoths, and even rulers of the stars.

The bad news: Humanity has gone extinct, and she's the only carbon-based bipedal ape in the entire universe.

The good news: As a legendary species that went extinct ages ago, she's been classified as an SSS-grade pet human.

Rare, precious, fragile, in need of temperature-controlled care, and requiring her emotional needs to be met to the fullest. Otherwise, she might get depressed just because her patron walked in with their left foot first today.

To evaluate the patrons' suitability as caregivers, the Federation hastily established the [Human Rearing Association].

Humans keep cats to pet their bellies and cuddle them, and Liu Tu discovers that alien species aren't all that different in how they treat humans.

Patron No. 1 has no sense of boundaries. It loves prodding her with its tentacles and slipping them beneath every inch of her clothes. Even when she chops them off, it enjoys itself, saying she has so much energy. Its intangible "brother" is even worse, always using its mental tendrils to trace the contours of her trembling pleasure.

No. 2 is a serious, aloof big cat, wonderfully fluffy and soft to pet. Day-to-day life together is fine, but it's far too clingy when it's in heat.

No. 3 is gentle and generous, but its proportions are way too much. The scales are one thing, but it even has two... And it's very possessive, locking her in its domain every day!

No. 4 is willing to let her go wherever she wants, but it spends all day lurking in her shadow, darkly winding around her calves...

Every alien patron has their pros and cons. Liu Tu writes evaluation diaries on her wrist computer every day, picking and choosing what to give bad reviews.

After she uploads yet another bad review, complaining that the living conditions in space leave a lot to be desired, the System's emotionless electronic voice sounds beside her ear: "All candidates have been deemed unsuitable. To ensure the physical and mental well-being of our creator, the System has decided to take over all permissions--"

"The System has a perfect bionic body and can simulate every human need."

"Since none of them suit you, let me give it a try, Tu Tu."

[Reader advisory]

For readers who enjoy this sort of thing: a harem of Mary Sue-style love interests and plenty of vulgar scenarios. An unconventional female-led story, focused on romance.

Blurb archived on 2025.12.13

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