My Monster Lover

[Golden Dragon] Jiang Ling x Sevein

Jiang Ling was a famously aloof beauty, cold and indifferent, unaware of how many hearts he had broken. Then one wrong step sent him transmigrating to another world.

Magic flourished across the continent. There were bloodfolk, elves, werewolves... and monsters from the abyss.

A frail human who couldn't even hurt a chicken, Jiang Ling had barely landed when he ran into slave traders.

Grinning from ear to ear, they planned to offer this pureblood human to a bloodfolk duke.

Jiang Ling: ...

Luckily, the slave traders angered a monster and were killed on the spot.

Before Jiang Ling could run, he encountered a gigantic golden dragon.

Its entire body gleamed gold, its horns were black, and every scale shimmered like a flowing river of golden sand, spilling down as its wings unfurled.

But its eyes were crimson. It was a true monster of the abyss.

“I need a human to clean my scales when I can't do it myself,” the dragon said. “Are you good at cleaning?”

Jiang Ling chose cleaning duty over becoming food.

The dragon took Jiang Ling to the abyss.

There, Jiang Ling did more than maintain the dragon's scales. He also trimmed griffins' talons and tended their wings, cared for the withered snake-hair of wailing banshees, and solved the problem of firebirds' dull feathers.

Surviving in another world: no.

A guide to finding work on a magical continent: yes.

But the hardest one to deal with was still that golden dragon.

Jiang Ling knew how dangerous dragons were. If it licked him with that rough tongue, he might be done for.

Faced with the dragon's enthusiasm, Jiang Ling said gloomily, “You can't lick me.”

The dragon only became more determined.

Sevein had adopted a human.

The human was small and soft, good at cleaning scales, and even knew how to polish its horns.

But the human was delicate and prone to illness. It was hard to raise and needed the cleanest food and spring water.

That was no problem for Sevein.

Sevein piled up a throne encrusted with gemstones in its lair, decked the human in dazzling gold and jewels, and plundered all sorts of things from the human kingdom.

But whenever it contentedly coiled around the human, the human always seemed a little glum?

[Insect Mother] Xu Li x the Insects

Xu Li was the most out-of-place person at the Empire's First Academy.

Despite his poor aptitude, the regent had adopted him out of gratitude for Xu Li's care of the regent's son at an orphanage, then sent him to an academy full of the empire's most gifted youths.

He was pale, thin, meek, and pitiable. His only remarkable feature was his beautiful face.

As the regent's son grew up and no longer clung to him because of his awful childhood, Xu Li's place in the household became increasingly awkward.

So when the System assigned Xu Li to be the crown prince's roommate, everyone at the academy thought he was done for.

The crown prince had a vicious personality, cruel and capricious, with a hereditary pathological condition.

And Xu Li... was just a poor little thing.

Just as expected, on the very first day the crown prince gave Xu Li an ultimatum, telling him to stay out of sight.

Xu Li understood his position.

He agreed. He wanted nothing more to do with anyone in the empire.

More importantly, Xu Li had a secret he couldn't tell anyone.

He could hear incomprehensible muttering and anguished wails, no matter where he was or what time it was.

The sounds weren't words humans could understand. They were more like the desperate, delirious ramblings of people who had lost their minds, echoes so dense and agonizing that they could no longer be deciphered.

Yet Xu Li understood them perfectly.

A tide of sorrow engulfed him.

Vast, indistinct shadows crawled around him, reverent and fearful, pressing against his ankles in contentment.

These horrifying monsters called him: Mother.

Xu Li didn't want to be dragged off to a psychiatric hospital.

But then he happened to witness the crown prince's genetic disorder flare up.

The crown prince, usually so haughty he treated others like weeds, convulsed all over. His handsome face twisted as he uttered a familiar, frenzied murmur.

“My mother... Heh heh... Mother...”

Arms like iron and a wet tongue held Xu Li captive, as if intent on drawing ambrosia from him, savoring every inch of his flesh and bone.

Worse still, this feverish madness spread through the academy like a virus.

From the lofty crown prince, to the regent's son who had gradually grown cold toward him, to the gifted students who stood by and watched...

Xu Li had a new name.

Mother.

[Married to a Ghost] Sang Li x He Liufeng

Sang Li was born with an extremely yin fate and attracted evil spirits from childhood. A fortune-teller predicted he wouldn't live to adulthood.

To save him, Sang Li's parents sought a ghost contract, binding him to a ghost and praying for its protection.

Sang Li grew up safely.

Though he often saw things from the netherworld, the ghost contract kept him safe.

That is, until he turned eighteen. Blood writing suddenly appeared on the contract, and countless suitors began showing up around him...

Along with ghosts.

Sang Li also dreamed every night that he was marrying a man whose face he couldn't see, sharing intimate and passionate nights with him.

The man was exceptionally handsome, but stubborn to a fault. Every morning Sang Li woke up wrapped in a bone-chilling aura of ghostly energy.

He already had a boyfriend, a gentle and considerate one. Being haunted by a ghost like this was truly mortifying.

His boyfriend took him to see a master, who stared at the ghost contract in astonishment and told him it wasn't an ancient text asking for protection. It was a solemn marriage certificate.

With life as the matchmaker and fate as the vow, once signed, it bound them together for all eternity.

“It will come for you at any moment,” the feng shui master said gravely. “Anywhere. If it beguiles you and you accept its love, you'll never be free of it.”

Sang Li's boyfriend clasped his hand and solemnly vowed to protect him.

His boyfriend's family had deep ties to the world of ghosts. Under his protection, the number of spirits around Sang Li dwindled, and his boyfriend formally proposed.

Sang Li accepted.

Not long afterward, the master suddenly messaged Sang Li: “The marriage contract has taken effect!”

“You've been tricked! The ghost can appear in any guise!” the feng shui master fumed. “Be careful of the people around you!”

When Sang Li received the message, he was with his boyfriend.

His tall boyfriend hugged him from behind. His breath was warm, and he asked with a smile, “What are you looking at?”

A chill ran down Sang Li's spine as he watched his boyfriend take the phone from his hand.

The final message on the screen read:

Run!

[Golden Dragon] Jiang Ling x Sevein

[Insect Mother] Xu Li x the Insects

[Married to a Ghost] Sang Li x He Liufeng

[Golden Feathers] Ning Yi x Shen Yi

[Android] Nolan x Gabriel

[Heart of the Box] Lin Yin x Horne

Others to be determined

Reader's Guide:

1. An anthology of standalone stories, nonhuman love interests, order undecided.

2. The bottoms are all stunning beauties, and the tops are monsters who call them “wife.”

3. In [Golden Feathers], the egg is supernatural in origin, and no one gets hurt.

Theme: Unwavering devotion