My Snake-Beautiful Boss Has Her Eye on Me

My next book is Substitute Bride. The blurb is below.

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Qiao Mian starts a new job at a new company, where her boss turns out to be her new neighbor.

Then strange things begin to happen. She keeps dreaming that a python is wrapped around her, dragging her into bed...

She can feel someone watching her from behind. Those eyes are like a snake's pupils.

Meanwhile, her boss pays more and more attention to her, often knocking on her door.

"Qiao Mian, my bathroom is broken."

"Qiao Mian, want to grab a meal together?"

"Qiao Mian, let's go to work together."

Her boss's face is so disarming that, despite being afraid of her, Qiao Mian still agrees to her requests.

But the strange occurrences keep piling up: strangers inexplicably picking fights with her, getting trapped somewhere on her way home from work for no reason, and even strange noises coming from downstairs...

Before Qiao Mian can figure out why, her boss takes her home. She sees those nightmare-like snake eyes, and the scenes from her dreams play out in real life. All she can do is watch as a snake's tail slowly coils around her body...

It turns out her boss has been coveting her for a long time, wanting to swallow her whole every moment of every day.

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Her boss isn't human. Just as Qiao Mian finally comes to terms with this, someone knocks on her door. A little hedgehog stands outside, holding an elegant letter. In all sincerity, it says, "Hello, I'm from the Bureau of Monster Management. We'd like to sincerely invite you and our esteemed ancestor Si Si to work at the bureau. The benefits are great!"

Only then does Qiao Mian understand that her boss isn't just nonhuman, but also an esteemed ancestor.

She turns her head. Si Si, still in her pajamas, looks a little awkward. After a moment, she smiles:

"Hi, darling."

The love interest is nonhuman, a snake. A wild, brain-off fun read: human workplace in the first half, monster workplace in the second.

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Dai Ruocheng is to be married off to a cold-faced, fearsome female general.

But not for love. She is to take her elder sister's place. Unfavored since birth, she is a young lady in the household whom anyone can bully.

She is also unlucky. A fortune-teller says she won't live much longer, so she is chosen and sent over.

On their wedding day, her wife in name only lifts her veil, questions her identity, then turns and leaves, abandoning her to spend the night alone.

Dai Ruocheng understands: she has been abandoned again. She was born unwanted.

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Her wife, the renowned female general He Wei, treats her with every consideration. The two maintain appearances and act like a loving couple in front of others, but Dai Ruocheng is still left alone in their room every night.

Dai Ruocheng can no longer hold on. It makes little difference whether she dies a day sooner or later, so she stops taking her medicine and stops restraining herself.

In the end, she falls ill in bed. Her face is deathly pale, and there is no life in her body, but a faint hope lingers in her eyes. She can't understand why the general is holding her hand now, why tears are falling as she kneels by the bed and begs her, revealing feelings that came too late:

"I'm sorry. Please don't leave me."

Cold-faced, stubborn female general x insecure, sensitive young lady

Theme: Stand firm and stay positive in the face of hardship.