A Guide to Raising Monsters

Blurb: I am a wandering spirit on a summer night, and you are the one who caught my scent. A summer when he was six: sunshine, woods, and melted ice cream. A lost sneaker, a blood-red dandelion, the mangled body of a rabbit. A pale monster feasting before the corpse. Qin Wan remembered only a few scattered fragments of that summer vacation. Over the long years that followed, he buried them deep in his memories and never thought of them again. Fourteen years later, he returned to his father's hometown, a remote place that felt like a paradise on earth. There was a local legend: a terrifying monster roamed the secluded mountain behind the village. It was a solitary, cold-blooded creature with a savage nature. Qin Wan didn't take the story seriously, until he encountered a man with blood all over his mouth on the mountain... After fleeing home, Qin Wan couldn't sleep at night. The image of the monster haunted him in his nightmares, until one night, his nightmare came true: the monster climbed through his window and into his room. Just as Qin Wan was about to scream, the monster raised the dandelion in his hand and stammered, "For... you..." Qin Wan stared at the dwindling supply of animal blood in the fridge and said irritably, "You've been eating too much lately. I can barely afford to keep you fed." Lu Li blinked his beautiful eyes innocently beside him, looking as if he had no idea what Qin Wan was talking about. Qin Wan sighed. "Forget it. I'll get you some more food tomorrow. Let's go to bed for now." Lu Li, who just moments ago hadn't understood a word, immediately broke into a smile, scooped Qin Wan into his arms, and carried him toward the bedroom. Qin Wan: "??? You only understood that last part?" Fourteen years ago, my best friend died. Fourteen years later, my best friend returned. He was no longer human. He loved me very much. An innocent-acting, flirtatious monster gong X a gentle but secretly dark ordinary human shou Reading guide: 1. One-on-one romance, horror and suspense with a slice-of-life romance plot. Slow-paced, with a jumbled timeline and a lyrical, fresh style. A summer romance like eating chilled watermelon. 2. Sweet, but not a conventional love story. The gong's values are not those of a normal person. If you can accept that premise, feel free to keep reading. To avoid spoilers, there are no further specific content warnings, but there are no common trigger points. 3. Normal comments are welcome. Personal attacks are not. 4. The blurb's line, "I am a wandering spirit on a summer night..." is adapted from "I am a wandering spirit on the street, and you are the one who caught my scent." The original line was written by singer Wu Bai. 5. Writing takes effort. Please support the official version on Jinjiang. A bow of thanks. Have a look at my upcoming works too~ 1. Supernatural case investigation, The Special Cases Unit Has No Heart: Blurb: As a member of the Supernatural Case Investigation Unit, Wu Wu has one guiding principle: never take a case ranked C or above. Go to work every day without using his brain, earn a steady paycheck, and stay alive. Then one day, he got caught up in an S-rank vicious case. Every other investigator on the case died, and Wu Wu was the only one who made it out wearing nothing but his underwear. Boss: Impressive! How did you do it? Wu Wu: I told him I had something amazing to show him. Boss (shocked): And then you took off your clothes?! Wu Wu (in tears): No, he took them off! The amazing thing I meant was the new pulse gun I was carrying! Boss: ... At the commendation ceremony the next day, the big screen played a high-definition photo on loop of Wu Wu in his underwear, carrying an unconscious mother and child out of a burning warehouse. Boss: Everyone, stand! Let us pay our highest respects to Wu Wu, captain of the Ninth Investigation Team! These photos show his heroic performance during the case! Wu Wu applauded himself and shed a few "moved" tears. #Director, the floor is already spotless. Why do you still have to make me lose face?# * Seeing a handsome man outside the bureau, claiming to be his boyfriend and waiting for him with a bouquet of roses, Wu Wu felt cold from head to toe. First, he wasn't gay. Second, even if he were, he wouldn't get involved with a wanted criminal who consorted with evil spirits. Wu Wu was about to pull out his gun and shout for someone to arrest the criminal when the man suddenly appeared in front of him. He used the rose in his right hand to conceal the gun in his left, which was pressed against Wu Wu's inner thigh. Shen Yunzhou: "Keep your voice down, or my darling will hurt your darling." Wu Wu: ... From that day on, his colleagues noticed that Wu Wu had changed a little. First, he started telling everyone he liked men. Second, every day he showed off his relationship with a handsome guy named Shen Yunzhou. Wu Wu: Hah. The world envies me for having such a great boyfriend. I laugh at them for not seeing through it. Shen Yunzhou: Hah. The world envies our loving relationship. I say it's all thanks to my methods. #Every day, I make faces and drop hints that my boyfriend is a top-level wanted criminal, but no one gets it. They just say I'm beaming with happiness because I'm in love.# If a head cannot roll to the feet of the beloved, then it is a burden on one's shoulders. Alexander Herzen, My Past and Thoughts An elegant, deranged, refined scoundrel of a wanted criminal gong X a beautiful investigation team captain with brains but no desire to use them shou 2. Lovecraftian infinite flow, What Lies in the Abyss: Three days ago, I died in a car accident. I'm an atheist. I don't believe in supernatural forces. But when I opened my eyes again, I found myself in a strange world. The city was completely deserted. Countless eyeballs looked down upon the ground from the blood-red sky. On a black skyscraper in the distance, a monster with a goldfish head and a fiery red dress was devouring a giant silkworm cocoon. Black tentacles writhed out of the road, their slimy, stinking bodies twisting from side to side. Something in the shadows was silently creeping toward me. Only then did I suddenly realize... "Oh no! I forgot to tell someone to delete my online cloud drive before I died!!" #The day that 128 GB cloud drive of erotic danmei gets exposed to the world will be the day I truly die of social embarrassment.# #Attention, unknown beings: the target's remaining sanity is ∞+.# An inhuman, ill-intentioned gong with unknown and wicked tastes + X + a gorgeous shou with incredible luck who fears nothing Theme: Kindness is precious