My Boss Is a Dragon

[A scheming black dragon boss who wins himself over × a resilient, warm-hearted heroine who grows]

This is a city where humans and magical creatures live side by side.

Above, a cyberpunk sky city inhabited by human elites; below, a filthy slum where monsters struggle to survive.

Ashila is a humble college graduate who can't find a job. She never dreamed that the only offer she would get would come from a strange agency that manages monsters.

No normal human would willingly lower their status to work with monsters.

But Ashila is an exception. She swallows her pride and takes the job for a government paycheck, only to discover that

her colleagues are all werewolves and fox spirits.

On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, they suppress rampaging beastfolk; on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, they clean up after demon attacks.

And her boss, Director Emil, is the only other “human” in the agency, yet everything about him seems inhuman.

Crimson irises, a feverishly hot body, and sweet-tasting blood. He can withstand tons of falling rubble, but is severely allergic to theobromine.

Though cold-blooded and calculating with everyone else, he's unexpectedly patient and considerate toward Ashila, showing what can only be called “favoritism.”

He offers her a generous salary when she interviews, gives her a gun when she starts, and steps in when she's bullied.

At her welcome party celebrating her permanent appointment, they play the King’s Game. Emil even cheats to get the card that lets him kiss her.

She has her suspicions and doesn't want to admit it, but she's already hooked. In this flirtatious game of cat and mouse, she's falling step by step into a top predator's gentle trap.

Fifteen years ago, when she was seven, she was kidnapped by criminals. The one who saved her was a black dragon that fell from the sky.

The adults all said she'd been frightened out of her mind. Dragons had long since been hunted to extinction.

Only she stubbornly believed that the god who saved her as a child had black scales.

Ashila spent fifteen whole years searching for that dragon.

And that dragon had the same crimson eyes as him.

Only Emil knows the truth: this isn't a miraculous reunion. It's the culmination of a scheme he's been plotting alone for years.

He's been laying the groundwork for years to overthrow human rule.

The only condition is that he mustn't fall in love with his own pawn.

Reader's Guide:

1. Very slow burn. The main plot officially begins in Chapter 22. This isn't just a sweet romance; it also focuses on the survival of different species and social injustice.

2. This isn't a wish-fulfillment story, and the heroine isn't a powerhouse. She has no golden finger. Every character has flaws. The heroine can be timid and vain, but she also has her principles. This is simply a story about an ordinary person gradually awakening and growing.

3. The male lead is a jerk early on, and a jerk later too.

4. Includes a number of dark and disturbing side stories.

5. 700,000 words are already written. Happy ending.

Theme: Resist oppression.