What to Do When You Find a Fluffy Creature

[A slow-to-open-up, healing sweetheart x a sickly, deceptively sweet black-hearted man who is gentle only with Zhaozhao]

[An endlessly optimistic girl with an amazing outlook x a dark, possessive man]

Zhaozhao transmigrates into a book.

Unfortunately, she's dim-witted, lazy, and a little socially anxious. All she has going for her is a pretty face.

Every day, she nervously minds her own little patch of land, without any grand ambitions.

Until one day, her original body's drunken father tries to offer her to an old man to settle his debts.

A man with black hair and white robes, breathtaking looks, and an elegant, immortal bearing, as cold and clear as snow-covered bamboo atop a distant mountain, kindly pays to free her.

Zhaozhao finally remembers: this is a male-oriented cultivation novel, and she's nothing but a minor character with fewer than a hundred words, there to show off how Rong Yu pities all living beings, is noble and unsullied, and remains unmoved by desire.

Except the first Sword Immortal, hailed as a prodigy, seems to be the villain in the book...

*

Just as Zhaozhao is happily carrying on with her little life, the Immortal Capital suddenly changes overnight.

According to the story, Rong Yu will have his spiritual core dug out, his spiritual roots destroyed, and his immortal bones stripped away. No one will love him or take pity on him. After being tormented until he is half-dead and going through eighty-one trials, he will tread over piles of bones and rivers of blood to rise above everyone and rule the Three Realms as a cold, cruel Demon Lord.

Then, at the very end, the righteous male lead will come to take revenge and stab him to death.

...What a ridiculous plot!

She looks at the terrifying creature bound in the middle of a formation, its body covered in black feathers like a crow's, with sharp claws and fangs. Its mind is a haze, and she can't tell what species it is.

She vaguely recalls the gentle, amused murmur that comforted her when she was helped to her feet: "Don't be afraid."

Zhaozhao charges without hesitation into the collapsing ruins, braving flying stones and terrifying demonic energy, and wraps her arms tightly around the black creature.

The girl is tiny, her voice trembling but resolute. She looks at him with almond-shaped eyes. "Young Master, don't be afraid... I'll take you away."

Warm blood and salty tears drift across Rong Yu's lips, his face unrecognizable. He instinctively flicks out his tongue to taste them, and the demon on the verge of losing control suddenly goes still.

*

Having been an experienced dog owner in her previous life, Zhaozhao raises her young master, who has lost all his reason after falling into demonic cultivation, like a dog (crossed out).

He's fluffy, gentle, and obedient. Even though he can lose control easily, he's easy to soothe and listens well.

He's just a bit stupid, like the village idiot who got kicked in the head by a donkey.

And a bit clingy. If he doesn't see her for a while, he goes crazy.

She teaches him to read and speak, helps him learn his own name, and gives him daily pep talks to keep him from going astray.

The fool can't learn anything for ages, but somehow manages to learn Zhaozhao's name.

One day, a certain sword cultivator escorts Zhaozhao home. With a shy expression, the young man gives her a handful of flowers beaded with dew.

The fluffy creature waiting at the door for Zhaozhao catches the whole thing.

Late that night, the clumsy black creature imitates the sword cultivator, hooking a bunch of flowers from who knows where onto his claws and shoving them into the girl's arms.

The tip of his tail winds twice around her slender, pale ankle. He lowers his head and rasps, word by word, "Zhaozhao, mine."

*

No one in the world loves Rong Yu. Only Zhaozhao loves him.

He's been waiting for her for a long time.

[Also known as: The Years I Spent Taming the Demon Lord, Did I Raise Him Wrong?, If You Have a Problem, Take It Up With My Husband!]

1. Before he turns human again, he really is a fool, with only demonic nature and no humanity (?).

2. The female lead isn't strong, but this is a female-lead-centric story, and the plot serves the romance.

3. The fluffy one isn't a traditional good guy. His values are warped, and everything about him is an act. He thinks dead is dead, and kills anyone he wants. He only listens to Zhaozhao.

4. The original female lead isn't vilified.

5. This time, I'm definitely writing a fantasy novel about someone's white moonlight... definitely... definitely... TT

A story written purely to indulge my tastes. All the cultivation settings are entirely my own. I might write it after finishing my modern romance, or I might jump the queue, ovo.

I'll revise the title and blurb before I start posting.

Saved on 2026.4.10

Theme: Even if you stand in the mud, keep reaching for the stars.