The Crows Are Innocent

After a great upheaval, divine beasts, demons, monsters, and spirits were killed, wounded, put to sleep, or driven into hiding.

The last crow spirit in the world happily came down from the mountain.

A passing goose loses its feathers; a passing crow loses its scales.

The little crow loved collecting every shiny thing in the world.

Three years later, the wounded and sleeping divine beasts began to wake. The first thing they did was go after the thief.

Divine beasts and spirits from every corner gathered at the little crow's nest, darkening the sky and shaking the earth.

The Blazing Qilin slammed its palm down, shaking the ground: "Give me back my big toe claw!"

The Five-Colored Phoenix shook its bare tail feathers and flared up in a furious blaze.

The Yinglong twins froze a thousand miles in an instant: "Thief who stole our dragon pearls!"

The little black crow trembled in terror, and tried to hide a huge pile of shiny treasures behind its little black wings, which only made it look guiltier.

"Crow didn't steal anything! Crow doesn't know a thing! Crow is innocent!"

The divine beasts were so furious that the sky and earth darkened and the sun and moon lost their light.

Suddenly, a shadow blotted out the sky. The last black dragon in the world descended among the divine beasts with a low, furious roar, its dark eyes blazing with raging fury.

When it landed, it transformed into an incomparably handsome man.

"My reverse scales..."

!!!

The divine beasts stared at him in shock, looking at the black dragon as if they were already mourning him.

The little crow stared at the black dragon in even greater shock. Crow really didn't take it, so why was he framing Crow? This time, Crow really was innocent!

In the breathless silence, the black dragon finally finished speaking: "...You almost plucked them out."

The divine beasts looked disappointed: ...Could you please finish a sentence without pausing dramatically?

The little crow shrank back guiltily.

W-Who told that scale to be so shiny? It looked so tempting to take back to the nest!

= Ill-tempered, domineering ancient divine beast black dragon gong VS cheeky little crow shou who'll peck even the feathers off a divine beast's butt =

(A little note: "A passing goose loses its feathers; a passing crow loses its scales" was an illogical line I came up with on the spot while writing the blurb. After seeing some comments about it, I realized it might not be entirely accurate here and could mislead readers who don't know the expression. I thought about it for a long time but couldn't come up with another catchy line to replace it, and deleting it outright would leave a blank. So for now, I'm keeping it. To clarify, the only connection between the two halves of the line is that they sound catchy together; they aren't related in meaning.)

[The completed work in my collection: My Archrival Became a General]

Recommended ongoing work in my collection: The Top Scum Gong Starts Slacking Off (Transmigrate Into a Book)

Blurb:

Bai Jiyan was voted the Scum Gong System's Transmigrator of the Year. He diligently and conscientiously played the scum gong in one small world after another.

The capable do more, and the vicious Scum Gong System kept squeezing him harder and harder.

After being forced to work overtime during his hundredth consecutive vacation, Bai Jiyan had had enough.

Scummy? Fine, I'll be a little scummy.

The protagonist shou had just been captured by Bai Jiyan's men. His dark eyes were stubborn and restrained, tears glistening in them.

Bai Jiyan lounged on the sofa with his legs crossed, snacking as he asked his men, "Why did you really bring him back? Don't you have any sympathy?"

His men: ???

The protagonist shou was tossed onto the bed, his face set in a look of steadfast defiance after suffering humiliation.

Bai Jiyan pulled off his tie and approached the bed, then tossed the tie onto it. "Tie yourself up."

The protagonist shou: ??

Bai Jiyan: "Look it up online if you don't know how."

The protagonist shou: ????

The protagonist shou's admirer, Bai Jiyan's archrival, showed up, his expression icy. "Bai, let A Qiu go. Otherwise, at this bidding conference..."

He rattled off a whole string of threats.

Bai Jiyan loosened the soil around his succulents, his face expressionless. "Oh."

His archrival: ??? Are you looking down on me?

Bai Jiyan had long since had enough of the inhumanly intense job of mistreating the protagonist shou day and night while making time to be a domineering CEO.

After a series of slack-off moves as the head of the Bai Corporation, he successfully slacked the company into bankruptcy.

The (censored) System refused to let him go back, no matter what.

With his succulents in his arms, curled up in a shabby rental, Bai Jiyan finally decided to go out and find a job.

The former head of the Bai Group was now a car washer, working nine to five with a two-hour lunch break. Ask him to work even one extra minute and he'd start slacking off.

The boss, overwhelmed by resentment, kept him on because he had a face that brought in customers.

One day, a limited-edition luxury car glided into the car wash. Bai Jiyan was heading toward the back, carrying a turned-off hose.

The door opened, and his arrogant archrival and the protagonist shou, wearing a complicated expression, got out.

"You," his archrival ordered imperiously. "Come wash the car."

Bai Jiyan turned around and gave them a cold glance, then raised his hand to check the time. "Five, four, three, two..."

His archrival suddenly tensed up, looking around warily. "What are you counting down to?"

Bai Jiyan dropped the hose. "Quitting time."

The gong is the archrival.

Goofy younger gong VS slacker domineering CEO shou

Recommended upcoming work in my collection: The Entire Interstellar World Is Hunting Down Fluffy Creatures

Blurb: Jiang Xin suddenly became the highest-level wanted criminal in the entire interstellar world.

In every corner of the Empire with good communications, Jiang Xin could be seen fleeing in a sorry state.

As the Marshal's family troops closed in from every direction, the wanted criminal, with nowhere left to run, suddenly transformed... into a fluffy, soft, sweet-voiced yet fierce... leopard cat???

Jiang Xin was dumbfounded.

Half an hour later, the leopard cat was taken back to base as a pet.

Trembling Jiang Xin was gently stroked; Jiang Xin lying on his back was enthusiastically cuddled; one flick of his tail and someone immediately brought him the finest fish.

Jiang Xin suddenly thought... this wasn't so bad.

Surrounded by the adoration of everyone at the base, Jiang Xin quickly adapted to his new identity as a cat.

He even became an expert at acting cute and scratching people.

The legendary cold and heartless youngest Marshal in the Empire actually smiled at this excessively clingy little cat.

Taking advantage of his little cat body, Jiang Xin came and went freely around the base.

Looking at the wanted posters still being distributed around the base, each bearing a huge photo of himself, he waved his little cat paw and scrawled a few words in an unmonitored corner: Jiang Xin was here!

The next day, the base was in an uproar, and even the usually aloof and arrogant Imperial Marshal frowned.

Jiang Xin was smug and grew increasingly bold.

Until one day, a certain cat's secret identity was exposed.

Facing the gazes of all the people who had cuddled the wanted criminal, Jiang Xin slowly backed away, then backed away some more...

"Um... um... it was all a misunderstanding! Absolutely a misunderstanding!"

The Marshal narrowed his eyes. "Breaking into my bathroom was a misunderstanding too?"

Theme: Care for animals and protect endangered species.