Diary of Capturing a Devoted Male Lead

I hear the author is recruiting male leads? The domineering CEO? The brooding type? The pretty boy?

Everybody stop! Give us the devoted puppy!

One: The Slow-Witted Devoted Puppy. Devotion rating: three stars

Leads: Ruan Qing and Lu Shang. A workaholic doctor who can't tell her grains from her greens x a (sort of) corpse with maxed-out life skills.

One pitch-black night, a bold, easygoing woman carried a cold corpse home from a mass grave.

At daybreak, she exclaimed, "Oh my god, he's so handsome! That face, that waist, those abs, absolutely perfect!"

What's more, this talented corpse was an excellent cook.

So obedient, so earnest, so cute!

Ruan Qing fell silent. Her heart had been captured.

Years later, someone asked Ruan Qing, "What's the boldest thing you've ever done?"

She answered, "I fell for a corpse at first sight and married him."

"What's the luckiest thing that's ever happened to you?"

She answered, "That corpse came back to life."

Oh, right. That corpse's name was Lu Shang.

Two: The Unconventional Devoted Puppy. Devotion rating: four stars (maybe even four and a half)

Leads: Jiang Yao and Jiang Ye (Twelve)

Some say men are ruled by their lower halves. As for Jiang Yao, a woman, she's absolutely an incorrigible visual creature.

She sells information to people either way, but charges ugly customers over a thousand taels of gold, while handsome customers get it for free. She might even give them some travel money.

Jiang Yao has unusual taste, though. She thinks the martial world's most handsome man is ugly, yet she finds a plain-looking young guard she picked up on a whim breathtakingly beautiful.

After only three months together, rumors spread through the pavilion that Jiang Yao was utterly smitten with the guard and had even declared she would marry no one but him.

Who could have guessed that this young guard was from her rival faction?

Three: The Noble Devoted Puppy. Devotion rating: five stars

Leads: Wei Baitan and Kou Huai

Wei Baitan is a renowned beauty in the Wei kingdom, cool and aloof, with no worldly concerns in her eyes and no one her equal.

When she turned fifteen, it was time to choose a personal guard. Wei Baitan extended a slender finger and pointed at someone in a corner. "Father, I want him."

Some time later, she was surprised to discover that the taciturn, scarred guard at her side was the very Qi hostage prince who, years ago, had supposedly died of illness.

One day, the quiet young guard by Wei Baitan's side rose to become ruler of Qi.

Everyone feared that Kou Huai would take revenge on the Wei kingdom for mistreating him. Then a scene that left them all stunned unfolded before their eyes.

The former hostage prince, now King of Qi, knelt on one knee before the princess, carrying Qi's imperial seal. His words were sincere and unwavering: "Your Highness, will you still let me stay by your side?"

Content warnings: Love at first sight, then love that grows over time.

The author's completed novel, Eunuch: Spring Light Like Brocade, is available in the author's profile. Give it a read!

Theme: A sweet story about a devoted puppy