I Get By by Pretending to Be Good [Apocalypse]

[Complete. Please add my upcoming stories to your reading list: The Young Master Goes Viral After Pretending to Be Good, and My Rival Discovered My Secret After We Switched Bodies. Blurbs below.]

The little vampire prince woke up to find his food supplies had all "gone bad." They'd become stupid and silly, and there wasn't a drop of blood left in their bodies!

He was so hungry. Where had all the delicious humans gone?

Just as he was starving, someone appeared before him.

Such a big, fragrant food supply!

"Hello! Can I have a little taste? I'm hungry."

Thanks to those innocent, clear eyes, Pei Ming was taken in by Fu Sheng, who had given in to a moment of kindness.

So not all the food supplies had gone bad! He wouldn't have to worry about going hungry anymore!

But the first human he'd met smelled the best of all!

He had to protect his most fragrant food supply and keep him close.

From then on, the fearsome Captain Fu had a well-behaved little boy by his side, smiling at everyone and being as sweet as could be.

Fu Sheng: "Don't smile at them!"

Pei Ming: "But, but they're all my food supplies!"

Fu Sheng: "Food supplies?"

Pei Ming (eyes darting around): "Y-yes."

Fu Sheng (with a cold laugh): "Then what am I?"

Notes:

1. My vampire lore includes lots of original details.

2. At first, the shou can't empathize with humans, doesn't understand them, and doesn't consider them his kind.

----Upcoming stories----

First:

The Young Master Goes Viral After Pretending to Be Good

Only after reborn did Ye Jing learn that he was the foil to the well-behaved, adorable protagonist of an entertainment-industry rise-to-the-top novel.

As the foil, he was vicious, domineering, and arrogant. He debuted to a wave of online hate, then fell off a cliff and died.

His fiance was an equally ruthless, sinister villain who spent every day after his death plotting against the protagonist. In the end, his company went bankrupt, he became disabled in both legs, and he was left with a miserable life.

When he woke up again, he decided he couldn't be the foil. He would follow the protagonist's path!

H-he'd start by pretending to be good!

Pretending to be good should be a piece of cake for Young Master Ye, but... it wasn't.

Damn it, how was he supposed to act good?

On the show, the infamous has-been who picked fights with everyone and looked down on them puffed out his cheeks at the contestant beside him.

"Do you think this looks cute?"

Netizens: Aaaaaah! Cool guys are forbidden from acting cute!

Young Master Ye was troubled. He was a master at acting cool, but pretending to be good???

He decided to become someone who loved learning and study this skill from the "protagonist."

During a lesson with the mentor, An Kexing asked a question. Behind him, Ye Jing watched with shining eyes.

Contestant A: "Ye Jing, do you want to ask the mentor something too?"

Ye Jing: "No. I want to learn how to pretend to be... I mean, how to become well-behaved."

Netizens: ??

Just when everyone thought Ye Jing was an ultra-cool guy who desperately wanted people to think he was sweet, a paparazzi video shocked the internet:

The young man was bleary-eyed with drink, staring intently at the person before him with damp, misty eyes. His face was flushed pink, and he clutched the other person's sleeve as he followed along step by step, utterly obedient.

Netizens: Who is that?!

Ye Jing didn't dare pretend to be good in front of his fiance. He could only be genuinely good.

After drinks with friends, he got drunk and remembered his past life, his heart full of guilt. With damp, anxious eyes, he looked at his fiance and tugged at his sleeve to apologize. "Lu Ting, I was wrong."

Lu Ting... what else could Lu Ting do?

He could only take the little drunk home, let him cling to his sleeve, and gently ask, "You were wrong. How should I punish you?"

Notes:

1. No animal forms, no animal forms, no animal forms. Please don't assume otherwise.

2. The original version of the character will be portrayed negatively.

Second:

My Rival Discovered My Secret After We Switched Bodies

Qi Yun is the most talked-about man at First Military Academy. Wherever he goes on campus, everyone's heads turn. People are captivated by his looks, but his serious, restrained personality keeps them at a distance.

Ye Jing, the military academy's notorious troublemaker, thinks nothing of him and considers Qi Yun a habitual show-off.

Qi Yun thinks Ye Jing is like a wolf pup that hasn't been weaned. The moment he sees Qi Yun, he yelps and chases after him, snapping at his heels. So childish and ridiculous!

Neither can stand the other, so whenever they meet, sparks fly and they square off.

No one knows that Qi Yun isn't human. He's a vampire.

Every full moon, vampires enter a period of weakness and turn back into their original forms.

And Qi Yun's original form is... an adorable little cat.

On the fifteenth, Qi Yun canceled everything, even skipping class, and locked himself in his room to wait for his cat body to appear. Then, somehow, he switched bodies!

He switched bodies!!!

Qi Yun: ??

Ye Jing was in the middle of combat training when the world spun around him. The next thing he knew, he was in the academy dormitory. He was wearing a loose, luxurious nightshirt, and on top of his head... on top of his head...

Ye Jing: Mom, help! There's a pervert! Someone's sleeping with cat ears on!

After that, their classmates noticed that the two people who used to look ready to kill each other whenever they met had suddenly started acting strangely.

Forum: One big shot told another, "Let me pet you." What do you all think?

Ye Jing: I clearly said, "Let me pet your tail!!!"

[Real cat: aloof, scheming, seductive shou X fake wolf pup: tsundere, prickly gong]

Theme: The environment matters greatly to a person's survival