No Tourists May Covet the Beautiful Animal Keeper

[Coming next: The Physicist Who Married an Esports Player. Please add it to your reading list!] Jian Chen is a zoologist whose dream is to own a panda and open a zoo. In the year 3769, the government announces a new policy: Due to a severe gender imbalance, citizens may adopt pandas, one per household. The catch is that adopters must register their marriage to a same-sex partner matched for them by the state. A week later, Jian Chen, holding a panda cub, meets the man who is supposedly a 100% match for him according to the System. Tall, handsome, and possessed of a cold, intimidating presence. Jian Chen quietly looks away. Under the man's gaze, the tips of his ears grow warm with nerves. Luckily, the man is cold and taciturn, and doesn't seem particularly interested in him. Relieved, Jian Chen still spends their wedding night wide awake. With red-rimmed eyes, he silently asks the man to rub his lower back. He tells himself it's a marital duty, a necessary price for adopting a cub. But is this price... a little too outrageous? orz * They keep up their married life for three years. Then one day, a comet crashes into Earth, and people flee in terror. While unconscious, Jian Chen unexpectedly transmigrates to the interstellar era. He becomes the director of a dilapidated zoo. Though the zoo is on the verge of closing, it is home to all kinds of precious species. The cubs spend their days scavenging grass to eat, filthy and utterly bedraggled. As a zoologist, Jian Chen can't help feeling for them. He decides to pull himself together, rebuild the zoo, and take on the responsibility of caring for the animals himself! His shirt is clean and fresh, his presence warm, his fingers long and slender. His textbook-perfect technique for petting cats and caring for animals is accidentally captured by a visitor and posted online. The zoo goes viral overnight. And his cub has come along with him too. It turns out to be the last panda cub in the entire interstellar realm! The whole interstellar realm goes wild! ...It seems Jian Chen's dreams have all come true. Except that, in the quiet of the night, he sometimes can't help thinking of the cub's dad. * One day, while livestreaming himself brushing a little white tiger, Jian Chen sees his beloved on the interstellar news: returning from the battlefield in a military uniform, his expression stern as he steps down from a starship. He hears the officers address him as "Your Majesty." Jian Chen, fingertips trembling: ... The cub, watching TV and dropping its bamboo: ...Papa? All the netizens: !?!?!?! ...What did they just hear? Much later, a warning sign appears at the zoo entrance: "Visitors are forbidden from coveting the married animal keeper." Signed: His Majesty, in his own hand * An interstellar cub-raising story, with more than just a panda. * In this interstellar era, furry creatures rule the world and can transform into human form. * The pursuer fell in love at first sight, and had been plotting it for a long time. Coming next: The Physicist Who Married an Esports Player Blurb: The pursued is a promising young physicist. His dream is to win a Nobel Prize and find a suitable partner. As it happens, the government introduces a policy: Citizens can use their ID cards to enter the state matching system and register their marriage to their match. (In short, the state assigns you a spouse.) The pursued applies with high hopes. Surely his match will be just as passionate about physics... chemistry would be acceptable, too. Three days later. When he learns that his 100% match is a man, and an esports player to boot, he feels as though the sky has fallen. Setting aside the fact that the match is male, this is the least respectable profession imaginable in his eyes. And the public considers a 100% match to be a soulmate. Following the address, the pursued decides to visit the pursuer's club and talk things over. The lights flash backstage at the arena. While waiting for the match to end, he wanders around looking for an opening. But when he turns around, he collides with someone. The man wears a black hoodie, is very tall, and looks down at him. He hears the players around them call the man their captain. Under the man's unfamiliar, icy presence, he fights his nerves and looks up. "Hello. Please sign this divorce agreement." "I heard that if both parties are dissatisfied, the state can approve a divorce on a case-by-case basis. The cooling-off period is only six months." As he earnestly explains, his eyelashes flutter. The man suddenly pulls his own hood over his head. The weight lifts from his head, and darkness fills his obstructed vision. The pursued is speechless. Then the esports star says coolly, "I'm afraid you've got it wrong." "I'm not dissatisfied." * The state releases a new announcement! The matching system has been updated with a new feature: newlywed couples can now use the system to see why they were matched. Baffled, the pursued is the first to ask at the civil affairs bureau. The answer is: 1. Childhood friends. 2. 100% sexual compatibility. 3. They admire each other's professions... This is ridiculous. Still refusing to believe it, the pursued skips a lecture by a visiting foreign professor that very day and goes to watch the pursuer's latest esports match. After an exhilarating match, the third reason is confirmed. Once the excitement fades, his head spinning and the back of his neck burning, the pursued locks the lab door, goes home, and, for the first time, knocks on his match's door in the dead of night. That night, the second reason is confirmed, too. The pursued: ... Fine. Only the first reason is left. He and the spouse assigned to him by the state are childhood friends? ...Absolutely impossible. * Lock is a terrifying demon king in the esports world, and everything goes his way. Not only is he exceptionally skilled, he broke through the competition as a rookie and formed the underdog team Teen. He slaughtered his way through the leagues and was hailed as a prodigy and a demon king. In games and tournaments alike, he has created countless legendary moments that players will never forget. And in the end, he even married the childhood friend he'd fallen in love with at first sight. When Team Teen first meets the pursued, a highly intelligent and level-headed theoretical physics PhD who is beautiful as a painting, the players all call him "Sister-in-law" at once, making his ears turn red. The teammates are green with envy. Until one day, the pursuer picks his beloved up from the lab and spots a countdown in the bottom-right corner of the blackboard used for physics equations: [The divorce cooling-off period ends in just 42 days.] Scheming esports star pursuer x beautiful physicist pursued * Marriage first, love later, 1v1, childhood friends, happy ending * Reunited after a long separation, a little sweet treat. Please add the first book in my author page to your reading list~ Coming next, Book 2: After Data Evolution, I Became a God Blurb: Everything in the world, including humanity, is made of data. "Once data evolves, humanity will face judgment." People scoff at this claim, dismissing it as the ravings of a madman. Until one day... The mannequins in a clothing store start talking. A white-collar worker who died three years ago, eyes vacant and drooling, walks into his company's lobby. An airplane flaps its wings like a bird and plunges into the sea with its passengers. Bai Ye is an utterly ordinary programmer. One day, a line of text appears on his computer: "Congratulations! You've successfully activated your own data! You're the most primitive number that makes up everything in the world, code 000, the rarest pure-color among humanity!" "Bind with me, and let's ascend to godhood together~" Bai Ye pauses for two seconds, then replies: Thanks, but no thanks. I'm not a zero. Then he deletes the spam email. Over the next few days, everything around him turns strange. Dog walkers in his neighborhood mysteriously disappear, only to show up at his door at night wearing collars, murmuring, "Mr. Bai, you smell so good." For example, when Bai Ye goes to donate blood, the instant the needle enters his arm, the nurse's eyes suddenly stretch out, taking up almost half her face. Then there are urgent announcements from the country's major media outlets, and anonymous forums offering huge rewards for pure-colors who are "numbers below 10"... * Before long, a tall man with blackness curling around his face knocks on Bai Ye's door. His data is so violently chaotic that he can barely maintain a human form. Dragon scales appear and disappear. Looking down at Bai Ye's neck, the man's fingertip presses against the rim of his ear. Dressed in a military uniform, he wears a blank expression and speaks in a low, ominous voice: "Hello, Mr. Bai Ye." "I heard that only pure-colors can soothe the most chaotic data." Bai Ye shuts the door. Don't believe rumors or spread them. * Supernatural horror, apocalypse, Lovecraftian Please add the third book in my author page to your reading list. Authorized illustrator: EK Theme: Cherish animals, protect the environment, and love our home