The Whole Zoo Has a Crush on Me

[This is terrible! Don't read it, aaah!!]

In the year 20XX, gravitational waves from outer space cause nearly 90 percent of Earth's plants and animals to mutate.

Yu Qiu, unemployed for a long time and almost unable to afford food, suddenly receives a job offer from a zoo:

“Become an animal keeper at our zoo. Excellent salary.”

With little to lose, Yu Qiu spends the last of her money to go to the zoo.

The zoo director is tall and straight-backed, with finely sculpted features. His blue eyes look at her through crystal lenses. “Welcome to the zoo.”

*

A short scene

Yu Qiu wakes in the middle of the night and follows a strange noise to the basement. Through a crack, she sees a room full of severed limbs and splattered blood.

A hand with long, distinct joints reaches out from behind her and gently covers her eyes. “What did you just see?”

As he speaks, a soft, furry tail, unmistakably belonging to a beast, curls around her bare ankle.

*

Only later does she discover that the mutations also involve animals transforming into humans.

The carnivores once kept in human zoos take human form. The zoo director, whose original form was a snow leopard, fixes her with a sharp, cold gaze. “Teach us how to become human.”

Yu Qiu has no teaching experience, but steels herself. “Um... first, you have to learn to love.”

The snow leopard director: “We'll try to fall in love with you.”

Yu Qiu: Huh?? Did you... misunderstand something???

[Next story / Dog-kun sweet romance] “Say One More Word and I'll Kiss You”

I, Tsujimura Toru, got into trouble on the very first day of high school.

“Boyfriend? Of course I have one!”

To fit in, I had no choice but to lie.

Just then, my childhood friend, whom I hadn't spoken to in years, sent me a message out of the blue.

This is the perfect solution! So I immediately called him.

Me: “Will you be my boyfriend?”

Inumaki: “Salmon roe!? (Huh!?)”

Me: “I mean, just pretend for one day. Please!”

Inumaki: “Dried bonito (If that's the case, I refuse).”

Me: “Are you deciding what to eat on our date? Okay, okay, I'll write it down!”

In the end, he became my fake boyfriend after all, and before long he was my real boyfriend... Huh??

He became my real boyfriend???

*

When she was young, the sickly Tsujimura Toru spent several years at her grandmother's home in the countryside.

That's where she found herself a childhood friend next door.

Her cheap childhood friend was always quiet and taciturn. The words he said most often were meant to comfort her: “You'll get better.”

Tsujimura Toru: “You're so young, and already saying things like that!”

But her condition improved, and she was about to return to the city. Before leaving, she went to the big house next door again, smiling brightly. “I'm leaving!”

Inumaki Toge took her hand. His hand was just as soft, but his eyes glistened with tears, shining and bright

“We'll always be together.”

[Subverting the usual tropes, redemption story] “The Redemption Novel's Heroine Quits! [Book Transmigration]”

“Your job is to become a ray of light in his life.”

“I know, the light of righteousness, right?”

“No, no, no, Host, don't do anything! You have to heal him with love, aaah!!”

“Ah, no problem. I'll heal him with the iron fist of society.”

Luan Wei transmigrates into the heroine of a redemption novel, complete with a System.

The original male lead, Gu An, is brilliant, but after family upheaval and an unhappy childhood, he goes down the path of crime and eventually becomes the enemy of all humanity.

The System says her mission is to redeem the high-IQ criminal Gu An and set his values straight.

But after failing in two full rounds, Luan Wei flips the table and stands up.

(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻ I'm done being the heroine of this redemption novel!!

Seeing this, the System panics and tries to talk her out of it.

Luan Wei: Heh.

*

Gu An discovers that he is trapped in a sealed timeline. His life repeats over and over, and no matter what he does, he dies at twenty-nine.

Since that's the case, he turns the human world into his playground and enjoys himself to the fullest.

One day, a girl from next door appears in the gloomy, dreary years of his childhood. Stubborn and naive, she wants to become the person closest to him.

“You are loved,” the girl tells him with a bright smile.

He looks her over with a mocking gaze, treating her kindness as a joke.

It isn't until Luan Wei gives him a cold look and then walks briskly toward another man that jealousy begins to spread through his heart.

“You said I was loved,” he says, his eyes reddening, his voice as soft as a whisper.

A straight-laced, strong-willed heroine × an antisocial, unbearably annoying male lead

P.S. The male lead is annoying in every possible sense.

A redemption story that turns the tropes on their head. A painful past is no excuse for becoming a villain.

Theme: Always take matters of the heart seriously.