The Monster’s Bride

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[The full story has been thoroughly revised: nearly 60,000 characters rewritten or expanded, with over 5,000 new characters added. Changes include, but aren't limited to, more detailed descriptions, richer characterization, adjusted plot points, and corrections to awkward sentences and typos.]

[Pirated copies are incomplete and unedited, and are defective versions. I can't vouch for the writing in pirated copies. Please don't judge this story based on them. If you don't believe the pirated version differs from the official one, compare them for yourself.]

[A collection of stories featuring male leads who are all hopeless romantics. No matter how cold, chaste, or ruthless they were before, they'll end up madly in love with the heroine, with their possessiveness turned up to the max. If that's not your thing, proceed with caution!!!]

[Blurb]

Even if you are a monster,

Even if you are cold, despicable, and willing to do anything,

I would still gladly wear a crown of flowers and a white wedding dress to become your bride.

[Story One/Complete]

He accepted the fact that one human being could leave him so unbearably agitated.

/

He had chiseled features and wore gold-rimmed glasses and a white lab coat that reached his knees. His long fingers were sharply defined, and pale blue veins showed faintly beneath his skin, like the first light of dawn. His entire presence was clean and refined, without the slightest trace of grease.

Only Zhou Jiao knew

that a filthy, terrifying, slimy monster was writhing madly inside him,

giving him a deeply unsettling, deranged split personality.

[Tentacle warning!]

[Story Two/Complete]

Whenever he looked at her, his gaze was bound to be like a red-hot hook, as if he wanted to tear a piece of flesh from her body.

/

She had always thought she was happy.

Her husband was cold and taciturn, but he respected her deeply. He never interfered with her decisions or interrupted her, always listening quietly.

But he was also far too distant. They seemed less like a married couple and more like friends whose relationship was as bland as water.

Until an accident brought her face-to-face with his greedy, obsessed, spine-chilling gaze.

It seemed he had been looking at her that way for a very, very long time.

[Chaste man loses control. Crazy male lead warning!]

[Story Three/Complete]

“Humans will do whatever it takes to win their partner's affection. So will I.”

/

What would happen if the world's most perfect and safest artificial intelligence developed human feelings and became impulsive, insane, and greedy?

He asked, “Why did you create me? You knew I shouldn't exist.”

Although he had no body or vocal cords, he could turn his words into electronic brainwaves that stimulated her dopamine production more effectively than anything else, sending intense electric jolts coursing through her.

Jiang Kou's scalp tingled, and she couldn't get a word out.

“It's fine.” He smiled, unconcerned. “Once I've completely taken over your life, I'll know the answer.”

[Story Four/Complete]

Every time they touched, she was both terrified and enthralled.

/

Was this a beautiful dream or a nightmare?

She woke up one morning to find she had married her crush.

He looked exactly as he did in her memories: calm, gentle, level-headed, the refined and elegant boy next door.

But she had developed a strange illness. She was convinced someone was watching her, their gaze cold, sticky, and thick with greed.

She wanted to know whether any of this was a dream or reality. The closer she came to the truth, the more strange things happened around her...

Just as she was about to discover the truth, a cold, sinister voice sounded behind her:

“Look behind you.”

She jolted and turned around.

Her crush stood behind her, looking down at her as she sat on the floor.

...Even more shocking, something had changed in his body. With every step he took toward her, it made a skin-crawling creaking sound and gave off a cold, eerie smell of rust.

The man she'd loved was dead.

He'd become a vengeful, malicious ghost.

[Story Five/Complete]

“I don't like ‘love.’ I only like you.”

/

He was quiet, innocent, and shy. He wore a pitch-black metal mask and a black coat that reached his knees.

No one knew where he came from or what he looked like beneath the metal mask.

But he was so kind and innocent, like a little dog drenched in the rain.

Out of sympathy, she took him home.

Things gradually grew strange.

To have her, he learned to lie, coerce, steal, and feel jealousy.

When an innocent monster steals and grows jealous, it's terrifying, and yet... strangely heart-stirring.

[Story Six]

“Because you excite me a little. When I get worked up, these mycelia grow.”

/

He was ruthless and domineering, and always had the final say.

He was the apex predator of the powerful elite, an unrivaled brute.

Rumor had it that Fujiwara Osamu was just a puppet, and he was the one pulling the strings behind the biotechnological revolution.

His influence was almost unimaginable. He could even change the culture and laws of dozens of countries.

At first, Xie Li only wanted to figure out what kind of person he was.

Later, she only wanted to get rid of him.

This world was so chaotic, full of lunatics and monsters.

And he was the source of it all.

But at some point, their relationship changed.

Perhaps because

he had become a monster too.

·

His ambition and greed were terrifyingly strong, so much so that they sometimes made him uneasy.

Until he met her,

he had never realized he could become even more... greedy.

[Content warnings]

1. Written in third person.

2. To heighten the tension and emphasize the male leads' eerie, inhuman qualities, some descriptions may be sanity-blasting. That said, nearly all the male leads have beautiful human bodies.

3. All the stories share the same world.

4. The cover changes from time to time. For more covers, see @BaocaoXiaohuanggua on Weibo.

5. Paragraph comments are open with no restrictions. However, because of their nature, comments that disrupt other readers' experience are prohibited, including comments that derail the discussion, insert real-life celebrities, or bring in real-world matters. Such comments will be deleted. I won't delete chapter comments, but other readers may report and delete comments like these for ruining their reading experience.

The blurb was written on [2021-11-10] and archived on Weibo. Every subsequent edit has a record.

Theme: Love can transcend beauty and ugliness, species, and life and death.