A Guide to Petting Cats

[Violent sweetheart, catlike school bully x Gentle, mature heiress]

Tang Miaoli, the former school bully at a rough-and-tumble middle school, stands just 1.4 meters tall but has the presence of someone 2.5 meters tall. She tears along at full speed on the edge of disciplinary trouble, unruly and swaggering.

Then, overnight, her school shuts down. The short-tempered bully and her whole little gang are forced to transfer to a private school said to have the strictest rules around.

On the first day of school, Tang Miaoli is caught red-handed by the student discipline officer while perched on the wall after arriving late.

Song Anzhi: Five points off for being late to assembly, three for untidy hair, five for not wearing your uniform, twenty for dangerous behavior...

You've successfully lost a hundred points and unlocked the expulsion warning achievement. Congratulations!

Tang Miaoli doesn't hesitate. She jumps down and punches her: I don't even want to go to this school!

But things take a strange turn: Tang Miaoli isn't expelled, and she doesn't lose a single point.

Even more amazingly, the tall, foolish discipline officer she punched, who stands over 1.7 meters, becomes her new desk mate.

Tang Miaoli: Do you have a thing for getting beaten up?

Song Anzhi: I fell in love with you at first sight three years ago.

Much later.

Song Anzhi: Meow, meow~ Come here~

Tang Miaomiao is kissed into a squashed cat pancake.

I plan to start The World Before Its Fall next. Please add it to your reading list!

[Infinite Flow / Tabletop Roleplaying / Ensemble Cast / Multiple Happy Endings]

Sui Qi, who cares only about making money, takes a job and boards a whaling ship bound for the Mariana Trench.

Then the ship sinks.

Seawater floods her body. Countless slimy tentacles covered in eyeballs wrap tightly around her and drag her toward another abyss, hidden in a rift in space and time.

It says she must either beat the game or die.

Sui Qi sneers.

There isn't a problem in this world she can't solve.

Tentacles: By the way, you have four teammates too~

And so Sui Qi lays eyes on four women, all of different shapes and sizes.

Number one is a little girl with demon horns on her head, enormous blood-red eyes that sparkle, and a little heart-shaped tail swishing behind her. She cries, “This king is already two hundred years old! You juniors can get lost!”

Number two is an expressionless woman, half her face hidden behind a huge visor of glowing lenses. Dressed in a white bodysuit, she looks like an astronaut. “Scan complete... Primitive people from before the Sixth Industrial Revolution?”

Number three is a delicate, pitiful beauty with golden hair and silver eyes. She quietly sheds tears from beginning to end, while a pair of damp, leaf-veined wings tremble behind her.

Number four is a female officer with flame-red hair. The pressure in her dark eyes is almost tangible as she points a gun straight at Sui Qi's eyes. “Deterrence Era! You leaked the coordinates of our space station!”

Sui Qi: “...”

If she had a choice, she wouldn't bring this bunch of creatures along.

Suddenly, she hears the crisp sound of dice rolling in her mind.

[1d100=100/???]

[Critical failure!!]

Tentacles: I'm afraid fate has decreed that you'll all die together~

“When the stars return to their places, greet the greatest, most ineffable ruler of the boundless chaos beyond the universe with the most spectacular and joyous death...”

-.-. - … ..- .-.. … ..-

“No matter when, please don't regret meeting me.”

“Before the world falls, will you give me a kiss?”

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A genius player who's all about money, absolutely rational, has her own explosive entrance music, and never looks back, along with her wildly varied, colorful, and endlessly eccentric companions.

Tips:

1. Besides the four teammates, the female lead also has another wife who isn't mentioned in the blurb. Multiple endings are tentatively planned, with a 1v1 happy-ending route for each character.

2. A long, plot-focused Infinite Flow story with an ensemble cast. The game uses tabletop roleplaying rules, based on COC 7th Edition, with modifications and house rules. You don't need to have played it to enjoy the story~

3. Slow burn. I'm starting this because I want to write my own scenarios. I'll begin once I have two arcs ready!

Theme: Becoming a better version of yourself for someone you love