The Twelfth Street Archives

An aloof fallen god with off-the-charts combat power, gong × a silly, food-loving shou who just wants to laze around

Also known as How to Save Yourself After Taking Out Your Boss from the Start, and The Ruthless Fallen God Forces Me to Keep Him.

Chi Ran is an utterly ordinary male university student at Haishi University, majoring in computer science. His hobbies are skateboarding, gardening, and fighting for food in the cafeteria.

He also stays up late wandering around, exorcising demons for extra cash.

There's an old archive on Twelfth Street in Haishi. It specializes in all kinds of unsolved human mysteries and is the least noticeable yet most mysterious place in the city. After completing his assignments, Chi Ran always comes here to report back.

Until one dark and windy night, when he and his skateboard crashed into a strange procession.

A red moon overhead, a neatly arranged procession, a golden sedan chair radiating an ominous aura, and inside it, a long-haired beauty as cold as ice, whom he'd just knocked over.

Chi Ran looked at the beauty. "I'm sorry."

The beauty patted his head. "You're going to have bad luck."

The beauty's words came true.

His computer crashed, he couldn't get food at the cafeteria, he nearly choked to death while drinking water, and he almost got hit in the head by something thrown from above. Chi Ran couldn't take it anymore and decided to negotiate with the beauty.

The beauty was the new spirit emissary and the boss of the Twelfth Street archive. Word was that he was a fallen god who had just awakened, a key figure who held the fate of humanity in his hands.

Chi Ran went to see him, steeling himself.

The spirit emissary was cold and unfeeling. No matter how much Chi Ran pleaded and coaxed, he refused to forgive the foolish mortal who had offended him.

Unless...

"Unless you take care of me," the spirit emissary said decisively.

Chi Ran: "?"

The spirit emissary didn't think there was anything wrong with this at all. "I'll move into your place tonight."

Chi Ran: "..."

.

Chi Ran has been very troubled lately, because his home now houses an antique who has lived for tens of thousands of years.

The antique has a face as beautiful and frosty as jade, but his demands are more outrageous than the last.

He wants me to go to class with him? Fine, we'll go together.

He wants Crazy Thursday? Sure, I'll buy it.

He wants to look at the moon from a rooftop downtown? Fine... Wait, what the hell?!

After enduring all that pressure and harassment, Chi Ran finally explodes. "Spirit emissary, you've been living off me for so long. Don't you think you should give something back?"

The spirit emissary hesitates, then points to his own chest. "Once I've found my heart, I'll give it to you."

It's said that if a mortal obtains a god's heart, all their wishes can come true.

If I have no heart to give you, then I hope I can become your wish.

[Notes]

1. Modern alternate universe, one-on-one romance, both leads are each other's first, happy ending. The gong is a heartless fallen god, and the shou is a university student who works part-time as an exorcist.

2. The author is terrible and the writing is rough, so please go easy on me.

Theme: Catch the sunlight shining through the cracks and grow as wildly as you like.