After Falling in Love at First Sight with a Monster

Pairing: Human, hedgehog-hearted do-gooder, iron-headed idealist seme Huo Lin x beautiful widower, monster, nonhuman uke Mu, who is trying to learn human emotions

That sanctimonious scumbag of an elder brother suddenly killed himself.

Huo Lin immediately clapped his hands in celebration, then went to the funeral of his half-brother and made a scene, kicking over the portrait in front of everyone.

Amid the chaos and the guests' scolding, the half-brother's widower appeared.

He was a pale, quiet, frail-looking black-haired young man, beautiful in an eerie way, dressed in solemn black mourning clothes.

Huo Lin stood there dazed, falling in love at first sight.

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After becoming friends with Mu, his widowed sister-in-law, Huo Lin gave him a medical watch for a holiday.

One day, while repairing the damaged watch, he saw the health data it had recorded for Mu.

Mu's heart rate was always constant. It never sped up or slowed down as an ordinary person's would.

Huo Lin looked at the black-haired young man.

Unaware of what this meant, Mu smiled at Huo Lin.

His long hair was as black as ebony, his skin as white as snow, and his profile was perfectly beautiful. His skin was warm and soft, just like a living person's.

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Mu's late husband once wrote in his journal: "I can no longer bear my beloved!"

"It's a heartless monster! Neither the changing seasons, the passage of time, nor my deep love and resentment can leave any trace on it!"

Huo Lin finished reading the journal.

His expression remained calm. Instead, he murmured softly, "Wonderful. If he's an immortal without feelings, then we're perfect for each other, aren't we?

"I just hope no one will mourn me when I die!"

The next day, Huo Lin confessed his feelings to Mu.

After thinking it over seriously, Mu agreed.

Reading guide:

1. The point of view may seem unclear, but here's how it actually works: the protagonist is Mu, a nonhuman character. The story is told mainly from the human seme Huo Lin's perspective, describing his impressions and thoughts as he watches Mu.

2. The setting is a fictional modern Western world with low magic. The only supernatural element in the story is the protagonist, Mu.

Coming soon:

Why Can't I Bully the Villain?! [Quick Transmigration]

Qin Leran is an out-and-out villain in a male-oriented cultivation novel.

He's ambitious and cold-blooded, yet so exquisitely beautiful that he easily attracts lechers.

He's a master actor and skilled deceiver who stops at nothing to get what he wants.

He'll walk over anyone's corpse to win.

He gouges out his elder brother's sword bone, uses and abandons his closest friend, the Yin-Yang Dao Saintess who considers him her lifelong confidant, and dons a secret identity as a woman to steal the male lead's divine weapon.

But despite all his efforts, he loses everything and dies, his cultivation destroyed.

To get a chance to come back to life and turn things around, Qin Leran willingly binds himself to a Quick Transmigration System.

He pulls out all the stops to complete a series of bizarre, impossibly difficult tasks.

But the terrifying thing is, why does every small world contain characters who look exactly like his elder brother, his former best friend, and the male lead from his original world?

They're impossibly hard to deal with. To complete his missions, Qin Leran is forced to let them do as they please...

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World One:

Qin Leran is a target in an affection-rating System. His goal is to reach 100% affection on the romance routes of his elder brother, close friend, and the male lead.

Qin Leran grits his teeth in fury, but still spends the whole night devising a different strategy for each of them.

After that:

He slips into the bed of his uptight elder brother, boldly acting spoiled and saying, "I'm Big Brother's little cat. I love it when Big Brother pats me on the head!"

He goes all out with his lonely, affection-starved friend, takes his hand, and says with deep feeling, "A-Li, I can't live without you. I want to be with you and only you for the rest of our lives."

He puts on women's clothes and plays a seductive succubus, teasing the male lead, who seems straight, with a breathy voice: "What's got you so worked up, junior? Didn't you say you were afraid of gay people?"

Qin Leran looks down on all three of them, but to get those +1, +1, +1 affection points, he climbs into their beds against his will and lets them have their way with him.

But he doesn't know that every target can hear the System's voice and his inner thoughts.

They can hear the repulsed, irritated thoughts in Qin Leran's heart while he speaks in loving tones, but they don't call him out. Instead, they take the opportunity to toy with him.

World Two:

Qin Leran is a haughty, beautiful Omega at an elite academy who gets away with everything because of his looks. His goal is to reach the chaste ending.

But this mission is far too difficult.

Because Qin Leran has enemies everywhere and has done countless awful things, including:

He's actually an illegitimate child of the Qin family, but doesn't know it, and treats his elder brother poorly every day.

In private, he mocks his cool and elegant Omega best friend, calling her an uptight virgin.

He's the male lead's gold-digging fiance, but breaks off the engagement the moment the male lead's family falls into decline.

Qin Leran enjoys being fawned over by a crowd of admirers, yet he's afraid of gay people and hates Alphas.

He dreams of second gendering as a powerful Alpha, sleeping with countless Omegas, and becoming the mighty head of the Qin family.

But his elder brother, best friend, and former fiance have all bound themselves to a hypnotism and brainwashing System.

In the dead of night, they click on their control panels and remotely operate their devices to do some truly awful things to Qin Leran...

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Character profiles:

Qin Leran (protagonist, uke): gorgeous playboy, true villain, unscrupulous scumbag

Jimo Hen: male lead, fake saint and genuinely twisted yandere, sadistic freak

Fusheng Xue: close friend, cross-dressing seme, beautiful and aloof saintess, cunning flirt, a seme who knows how to make his uke feel incredible

Qin Shenzhi: elder brother, rigid and traditional, control freak

Theme: Love is falling asleep in each other's arms