The Snowman Is Coming Home with You

In the New Sleep Era, everyone gets one pet capsule on their eighteenth birthday. No exceptions if they miss their chance.

Xue Xijiu was the oddity that emerged from a capsule: a snowman only as big as a hand.

His owner wanted a warm, fluffy cat, so he casually tossed the cold little snowman, who would melt as soon as winter passed, into an alley.

An early heat wave arrived, and the little snowman bounced around in distress as the heat scorched him.

Just as he was about to melt, a man lying in the alley, covered in blood, began radiating cold like a refrigerator.

Xue Xijiu, now saved, lit up with joy in his beady black eyes and found himself a new owner.

*

Si Ting had been abandoned at birth because of a strange illness. On his eighteenth birthday, someone knocked him out in an alley, treating him like a monster.

The cold radiating from him froze everything for several miles around him.

Including his internal organs.

Just before his heart stopped beating, a round little snowball holding two dead branches hopped in front of him.

The white ball's carrot nose touched his face, and the overwhelming cold vanished in an instant.

He was saved.

But it was already past midnight. He had missed his chance to get a pet capsule.

And the dazed little snowman secretly crawled into his hood and followed him home.

*

After learning that water cost more than gold and that he needed to drink five liters a day, Xue Xijiu imitated his owner and opened the computer.

The snowman wanted to make money but didn't know what to do.

He scratched his head with a branch, making a soft rustling sound.

Then the whole screen filled with gift effects.

Xue Xijiu realized they meant money, so he scratched even more enthusiastically.

He scratched his head, then his belly, scattering snowflakes everywhere.

In an age when natural disasters could strike at any moment, people who had grown accustomed to insomnia finally enjoyed a perfect night's sleep.

When Si Ting, who had also slept for a long time, woke up, he found not only that snow had buried his house, but also that a lot of zeros had mysteriously appeared in his account.

"Rustle."

The thick snow was dug aside. A young man with silver hair and pale blue eyes bearing snowflake-shaped pupils stood naked in front of him, lifting his slender, fair hand in wonder.

"Master, now I can play rock-paper-scissors too!"

"..."

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship