A Demon King's Guide to Taming Nonhumans [Western Fantasy]

Updates are irregular, so it's recommended to wait until it's complete before reading. Upcoming: "On the Feasibility of Creating a World by Writing Bugs" and "Me, the God of Wealth, Saving the Kids!" Please add them to your reading lists. Blurbs are at the bottom. Xie Luolan was a scummy game planner, once reviled and adored by countless players as "Scum Boss." Years after quitting the game, an accident forced him to return, bringing his battered Demon King account with him. He picked up where he left off and went back to being a crooked merchant. This time, he had only one goal: make money. When the wandering demon who had once been a wolf, then turned human, and whom Xie had abandoned three thousand years ago came looking for him, the demon earnestly made a declaration that would make anyone want to die of embarrassment, saying, "I want to be your dog again." Xie Luolan pretended to have amnesia, refusing to acknowledge the embarrassing history he'd left behind in his youth, while happily getting free labor out of his dog. When a dragon who had fallen in love with his face at first sight, progressing from "thrilled by the hunt" to "unable to win his love," cornered him against a wall with red-rimmed eyes and demanded, "What will it take for you to love me?" Xie Luolan put on the airs of a love guru, using the human dating process to tame the dragon while quietly plucking gold coins from its claws to build his business empire. When a demon whose personality had become warped over thousands of years tried to join forces with him through love, provoking the others both openly and covertly, then simpered to him, "They're all so quick to get angry. Unlike me, I only ever worry about you, my lord." Xie Luolan turned the demon's own tricks against him. While flirting with his other partners, he made the demon contribute his clones of his own free will, just to keep his job offer from being rejected, and help expand his business empire. And then there was the elf, an ancient being who seemed innocent but was always making (dirty) outrageous remarks, and the fussy, secretly flirtatious King of the Merfolk... With Xie Boss's attitude of not refusing, not denying, not taking a stance, and not accepting responsibility, his staff kept growing. The nonhumans even fought bitterly and jealously over who would lend the Demon King their eyesight, hearing, mobility, or defense this time. Meanwhile, Boss Xie watched the clouds drift by with a smile, only smiling, silently observing, and tactfully saying something when his suckers competed to confess their feelings to him: "I always thought that people who fall for the boss exploiting them at work either have Stockholm syndrome or something wrong with their brains. But if you really want to know, I only have a soft spot for the employee with the strongest work skills." What a joke. Office romance? Not even a dog would go for that. The boss only cared about money. [Reading Guide] 1. There is a couple, and I'll say more when the plot gets there. 2. The protagonist is a scumbag. He won't love anyone for quite a long time, so expect lots of harem-style rivalry and romantic battle royales. This story is all about indulging in one's kinks. 3. Includes a System, players, and forums. The System will have a fairly large role. Now it's time for some recommendations! Upcoming "On the Feasibility of Creating a World by Writing Bugs" At first, Yu Jingyu thought his task was to write a program that simulated how a world worked, all within seven days. So, during the first three days of creation, he wrote the world's sunrises and sunsets, plants, and birds and flowers. Then the world-creation System went beep. [Your world's plagiarism rate has reached 50%. Please make changes as soon as possible.] Yu Jingyu: ??? Hadn't he graduated from college ages ago? Why did being God still require him to worry about plagiarism checks?! So, for the next three days, Yu Jingyu stayed up all night tweaking parameters. He put the sun inside the Earth's crust, set the moon to shine constantly, made plants grow down into the soil, fish fly through the sky, and birds swim in the water... At last, the plagiarism rate dropped to 5%, and he started creating intelligent life. [Beep. This character is 80% similar to the "Sea Demon" species in world KD00253. Please make changes as soon as possible.] [Beep. This character is 67% similar to the "Vampire: Synthetic" species in world FG07925. Please make changes as soon as possible.] [Beep. This character is 53% similar to the "Beastman" species in world PO08536, version 3.07.5. Please make changes as soon as possible.] After seven all-nighters in a row, Yu Jingyu finally couldn't take it anymore. He spent half an hour writing a randomization program that added random parameters to all the rejected drafts he'd written, just to appease the world-creation System. Then he pulled the covers over his head and fell asleep. Only when he woke to the sound of a System error did Yu Jingyu realize that several hundred years had passed. And every species generated by his random program's bug-ridden designs had been approved. Those species were thriving in this strange world full of bugs. The only problem was that he now had to fix all the bugs that had piled up while he was asleep. Yu Jingyu: But my world runs on bugs! Do you even understand that?! * In this world, full of distortions and contradictions, every kind of creature has flaws. No species is perfect. Legend says this is the Creator's mercy. For the Creator is the only perfect being in the world. Of all species, only the perfect can approach the Creator. This is the supreme staircase the Creator has granted them, the path to ascend into His divine kingdom. "Me, the God of Wealth, Saving the Kids!" After dying unexpectedly in a car accident, You Yu learned that he was actually the reincarnation of the God of Wealth, undergoing a tribulation. This world was being plagued by a disaster called "money." There was only one way to save it: throw money around! As a freshly minted God of Wealth, You Yu readily set out to scatter money far and wide. The only problem was, if he was supposed to throw money around, couldn't they at least give him an adult's body? The newly minted God of Wealth looked at his official robe, which trailed on the ground, and his hat that just wouldn't sit straight, and fretted. To make sure he could hand out money smoothly, You Yu, still a three-year-old child in this life, had no choice but to sit on the head of his sponsorship recipient and guardian, gripping the other's horns as he gave orders. "Shopping mall, buy!" "Movie, invest!" "Amusement park, build!" "Him, sponsorship recipient, number three!" His sponsorship recipient number one, holding him in his arms: ? Another one?! If you're interested, little angels, please visit my profile and add it to your reading list. :3 Theme: Hold fast to your principles and never waver.