[Western Crossover] The Red Panda Won't Confess a Second Time

Li Taotao only wants to live a quiet campus life.

A top-tier mind, with the ideals of a couch potato.

She deliberately loses points, puts up with mistreatment, minds her manners, and is determined to take slacking to the extreme.

The most ambitious thing she has ever done is confess to young Master Wayne, the boy with the worst reputation in her class.

And then, he cruelly rejected her.

She cried so hard when she got home that day, she collapsed her bed.

And she herself...

Actually turned into a red panda!

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There have been plenty of sightings of the red panda recently active in Gotham. Robin, an animal lover, is over the moon and swears he'll catch it and keep it at home.

But the panda is wily, and the cameras can't catch it.

Until he stumbles into a fight between classmates and catches a glimpse of something: when the girl he'd rejected gets worked up, a gigantic fluffy tail pops out behind her!

Damian's pupils quake.

Damn, the red panda was right next to me all along!

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After she confessed to him, Damian, for the first time, began to see someone other than his family and Jo.

Others called her quiet, well-behaved, and clumsy.

But Damian knew that wasn't who she really was.

Li Taotao solves problems methodically and thinks on her feet. She just pretends to be inept.

She's clumsy, disobedient, and thinks she's clever.

A thousand flaws, a myriad of ways to be wrong.

But there's one good thing about her:

This idiot can turn into a giant panda!

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A crossover between Red Panda and Cardcaptor Sakura. The heroine is Li Meiling's cousin. In my version, another direct ancestor of the Li family is Xinyi.

She knows magic, martial arts, and how to back down from a challenge.

A tiny wife-chasing crematorium! (Meaning kids having a little spat.)

Probably a mix of mystery + secret crush + coming-of-age transformation = romantic comedy!

The younger girl is a lazy, unhinged type, a master of backing down at the first sign of trouble.

Pairing: Damian.

I'll drop the story without notice.

Check out my upcoming novel: Skinny, Starving, but Super Strong [Special Containment]

When I was eight, my parents became monsters on a rainy night.

I seem to have been affected too. When I open my eyes, I can see strange things:

Giant spiders, hundreds of eyeballs on blank faces, a beauty on a billboard chewing on severed limbs...

Sometimes the buns in the steamer are beating hearts; sometimes the cereal in my bowl is a pair of eyeballs still spinning.

I have always known this world is fake.

From the age of eight until I was eighteen, I kept searching for a way to escape it.

One day, someone claiming to be my "older brother" came to school to pick me up.

When I saw him refuse to eat the cereal with eyeballs in it, just like me, I knew we were the same kind.

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The Bureau for the Management of Anomalous Entities received a report.

An ancestral-god-level containment object, the Evil Seed, was about to revive from the inner world and distort reality. The Bureau dispatched its strongest S-rank team to suppress it before it could run amok.

But after entering the inner world, they discovered that the so-called "Evil Seed" was just a frail little girl who never got enough to eat.

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Ruan Li can really put food away. After they brought her out of the inner world, the girl could polish off an entire rice cooker of food in one sitting. The detector classified her as "ancestral-god-level," but no one at the Bureau believed it. After all, she couldn't beat the logistics staff at arm wrestling or out-argue the receptionist.

Until one day, a containment object in the Bureau went out of control. Every combat staff member was out on assignment, leaving only elderly, weak, sick, and disabled office workers behind.

Ruan Li burped and stepped in front of them.

They watched as the little girl took a sushi knife and effortlessly sliced the containment object in half.

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Theme: Youth is about breaking free from confusion and growing up.