Why Doesn't She Like Me Yet?

[The complete, revised edition is only 4.4 yuan ☆ Publication updates: @Yuan Yao]

Yi Qing is busy with work and hopeless at housework. Her requirements for a partner are clear: gentle and considerate, able to handle all the housework. Good looks are just a bonus.

To meet Yi Qing's standards, the hot-tempered Shen Ang has pretended to be well-behaved in front of her from high school through graduation, teaching himself all the skills a househusband needs. He's a master of housework, an excellent cook, and an expert organizer.

But even after struggling through every possible hardship, all he's managed to become is "the familiar younger brother next door."

Shen Ang: Damn it, I've worked so hard to keep up this act. Why doesn't she hurry up and fall for me?!

In the fifth year of his secret crush, fortune falls from the sky: Shen Ang and Yi Qing start living together.

Shen Ang immediately goes on high alert and sounds the alarm for all his friends: From today on, I'm a model husband and father. Anyone who ruins my image is dead. Got it?

*

For years, Yi Qing has thought Shen Ang is a neighbor boy who can cook, do housework, speak calmly, and is incredibly patient.

Then Shen Ang's true nature comes out.

After that, before every kiss, Yi Qing has to sternly warn him: ...Don't bite me.

Notes:

1. Sports scholarship student x designer who never works overtime. One-on-one romance.

2. Six-year age gap. This is not mutual pining: one person is doing all the pursuing.

3. The setting is very loosely grounded.

☆ Coming next: You'd Better Not Like Me ☆

[Sweet, kind-hearted ray of sunshine x ruthless schemer]

While out and about, Yi Shu comes across a handsome young man in ancient clothing, wearing a jade crown.

The young man doesn't recognize the infamous Yi Shu and asks in confusion, "Who are you? Why don't you bow when you see me?"

Noble and pure, naive and clueless.

He doesn't even know Yi Shu is the only person in the entire empire entitled to be called a king.

Yi Shu takes the mysterious, pampered young man back to her castle.

Li Chongyue thinks he's met a kind-hearted person who'll help him get home, and happily enjoys good food and lodging at Yi Shu's place for half a month.

Then, the first time he leaves Yi Shu's side, he receives three hastily scribbled notes reading "Run!" from four different people in just five minutes.

The fourth person tells him: Yi Shu is a vampire. You'll be her thirty-seventh blood thrall.

Li Chongyue is stunned: What happened to the first thirty-six?

They're all dead.

*

Yi Shu, who has lived for seven hundred years, wants to end her immortality. Vampires can only be killed by someone who loves them.

Thirty-six attempts, thirty-six failures.

Li Chongyue is the thirty-seventh blade she's raised.

Theme: Love makes us willing to change