A Sea Otter Keeper's Handbook

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Originally titled I Heard You Have 24 Pack Abs

Mengqi is a sea otter who lives in frigid waters. Her greatest daily pleasures, besides cracking open shells and catching prawns with her friends, are reading the over-the-top CEO romances her neighbor brings home.

One day, the little sea otter finds a man on the shore. He's dressed in a suit and has a face as sharp as a knife.

As a die-hard fan of melodramatic CEO romances, Mengqi says, "A CEO! Take him home!"

After Shen Luochuan wakes up, he discovers that Mengqi has a special ability, and takes her home with him.

On the way, the conversation goes like this:

Mengqi: "Is your surname Nangong? What about Shangguan?"

Shen Luochuan: "My surname is Shen."

Mengqi: "Do you have 24 pack abs?"

Shen Luochuan: "Unfortunately, I only have eight."

Mengqi: "Will your mom give me ten million to leave her son?"

Shen Luochuan: "No..."

Mengqi: "Why don't your eyes show three parts coldness, three parts mockery, and four parts nonchalance?"

Shen Luochuan: ...

This kid's kind of silly...

[Extra Scene]

As the head of the Bureau of Mutant Creature Management,

Shen Luochuan says, "We need your help finding the mutant creatures in hiding."

Mengqi says, "But I still have to buy the new book, The CEO's Runaway Darling Husband."

Shen Luochuan says, "Name your terms."

The little sea otter's eyes light up. She pulls out a murder-mystery role-playing game based on a melodramatic romance novel. It's even an immersive edition.

Reading guide:

1. Adorable sea otter uke x treasure-loving black dragon seme, the kind of dragon from a hero's tale.

2. One-on-one, only for each other. A silly little sweet treat.

3. The uke and his older brother are simply family who treasure each other.

4. Daily updates at 9 p.m.

Coming soon: How a Socially Anxious Person Wins Over a Villain

Everyone knows that Wen Rui'an, the Wen family's adopted son, is just a pawn for the family's interests. He's antisocial, strange, and a stutterer.

After being married off to the villain Fei Jiangyi, he's shut away in a villa and ignored. Before long, someone pushes him into a lake, where he dies horribly. His body is discovered only after it has swollen up in the water.

After transmigrating into the story, Wen Rui'an has no choice but to raise the villain's favorability and make himself a little more noticeable, so he can avoid getting killed off.

But Wen Rui'an has two problems. First, he has extreme social anxiety. Second, he's broke. But if you're pursuing a big shot like the villain, you need to make a grand, romantic gesture.

So Wen Rui'an orders a delivery runner and has him point a megaphone at Fei Jiangyi's office building. The young man's passionate reading echoes through the entire company.

Then, on Fei Jiangyi's birthday, he hires a team of waist-drum performers to play Good Luck Is Coming at the banquet.

After a single campaign, he becomes famous, earning a reputation as a social menace.

After being publicly humiliated time and again, Fei Jiangyi finally corners Wen Rui'an in a car.

"What exactly are you trying to do?"

Wen Rui'an twists his fingers together, his heart pounding. In the end, he pulls out his phone and sends Fei Jiangyi a message.

"I just... want to be friends."

Fei Jiangyi: ...

Wen Rui'an nervously raises the villain's favorability while making sure not to get too close to Fei Jiangyi.

Then one day, he finds a marriage contract in a box. It says that he and Fei Jiangyi will be married for three months, after which he'll receive an estate in Haicheng as part of their divorce settlement.

Wen Rui'an's eyes light up. "I have an estate? All to myself?"

As the deadline approaches, Wen Rui'an decides to lie flat.

Wen Rui'an: "Can time move faster? Hurry up and cruelly exile me to my own estate!"

At first, Fei Jiangyi thinks Wen Rui'an is as strange as the rumors claim, and that he's a spy planted by the Wen family.

But after spending time with him, he realizes that aside from being introverted, quiet, and overly dramatic when expressing his feelings, Wen Rui'an is irresistibly cute and sweet.

But the person who was just making all sorts of dramatic confessions to him suddenly goes silent. The daily good morning and good night messages stop, and the packages and takeout orders no longer bear Wen Rui'an's name. After waiting for two days, Fei Jiangyi can't take it anymore. When he gets home, he finds that Wen Rui'an has left behind a contract and a brief note. The man himself is gone.

At the airport, as soon as Wen Rui'an gets out of the car, he sees enormous posters lining both sides of the terminal. They feature his face, with cutout roses in the foreground and several lines of colorful text.

"Missing person notice: The love of my life!"

Then comes a message.

Fei Jiangyi: Get back here, or I'll turn your photo into a PowerPoint presentation and have it play on a loop around the city, 24 hours a day.

A severely socially anxious uke whose behavior is top-tier extrovert x a villain who keeps embarrassing himself but gradually falls hard.

Theme: Protect the environment