Saving a Lazy Fish

The new novel next door, Runaway with a Baby, is updating now! If you like it, cuties, click into my column and add it to your favorites

Blurb:

Tao Jingjing transmigrates into a school-life novel, where the System orders her to help the male and female leads get together. She can trip them up or play matchmaker; whatever she does, she has to follow the System's orders and be a pure, unadulterated tool.

She's a lazy couch potato and absolutely refuses to be pushed around.

The System zaps her once as punishment.

Tao Jingjing immediately stabs herself three times (not really). Come on, who's afraid of who? If you can't kill me today, then I'm staying a couch potato!

The System whimpers and gives in. This Host is terrifying.

By chance, Tao Jingjing learns that her deskmate and the original host were childhood friends. She decides to be kind for once and finish the mission early so the two can reunite.

The mission is almost complete, and she's receiving more and more of the original host's memories. Why does everything feel so familiar?

Tao Jingjing, after learning the truth: spits blood.jpg

Blurb for the new novel Runaway with a Baby:

1. After transmigrating following a car accident, Shen Qingqing opens her eyes to see a handsome man across from her glaring at her ominously.

System: You've transmigrated into a melodramatic novel about a domineering CEO's wife running away while pregnant. This is where the whole story begins. After tonight, you'll be carrying the CEO's baby and starting your life on the run, with the CEO chasing after you...

Before it can finish, Shen Qingqing punches the CEO across from her unconscious. Wife? Carrying a baby? Let's see if my fists agree to that!

System: Aaaaaah, no, you can't do that!!!

But the plot cannot be defied. After a round of haggling with Shen Qingqing, the System finally agrees to a new version.

When morning comes, the CEO is fuming: I'll give you fifty million and a small island. If you dare cling to me, I'll have you thrown in jail.

Shen Qingqing promptly takes the money and runs for it.

Three months later, the CEO of the Xie family suddenly starts acting strangely. His usually refined and elegant face turns pale, his back aches, his appetite vanishes, and he can't stop sleeping. He even throws up from time to time!

CEO Xie stares in shock: Do I have a terminal illness?

Doctor: No, you're pregnant.

CEO Xie: !!!

Doctor: Ah, sorry, I misspoke. It's a false pregnancy.

Doctor: Your partner must be pregnant. You're so worried about them that your empathy is causing you to experience false pregnancy symptoms.

After turning it over in his mind, CEO Xie decides there can only be one explanation. He angrily heads to the island.

There, beneath the sunset stretching across the beach, he sees Shen Qingqing with her rounded belly, sipping a refreshing drink brought by the handsome guy beside her while running her hand over the man's six-pack.

CEO Xie, working himself to the bone while suffering a false pregnancy: I hate... ugh.

2. CEO Xie had been planning to confront her, but he soon discovers that all his symptoms disappear whenever he's with Shen Qingqing. His back and legs no longer ache, and he feels full of energy. He promptly moves in, promising not to leave her side for a single moment.

Shen Qingqing: What happened to not clinging to me? What happened to throwing me in jail?

CEO: The baby in your belly is mine. I have every right to cling to you.

Shen Qingqing points to the manor entrance: Fine, get in line over there.

CEO Xie looks up and sees a queue of handsome young men applying to be butlers, gardeners, masseurs, and personal trainers...

CEO Xie: ...I'm the baby's father! I demand the express lane!!

Little bonus scene:

Shen Qingqing asks the System: You're so powerful. You can even transfer pregnancy symptoms, so make him feel the pain of childbirth, too.

The System, which had just been relieved that the CEO and his wife had finally reached a happy ending: ...

Coming soon: I Hear Monsters' Thoughts and Get Shocked Every Day. Click into my column and add it to your favorites

Mind-reading, clever cutie * cold, abstinent man-eating flower (not really)

Wen Gu has been so annoyed lately. She's discovered that she can read minds, and more importantly, not just the minds of ordinary people.

There is a group of nonhumans hiding among people in this society: grim reapers, vampires, cat people, elves, giants. She can read the minds of any nonhuman.

"Whose head should I harvest today? That old King of Hell is cutting my wages again. No social insurance, and still making me work 996. He's practically inhuman!"

"I want blood so badly, that sweet, fragrant, red happiness juice. I'm craving it..."

"I'm about to go into heat. The cats here are all so ugly, and the cute ones at home are all eunuchs. I'm going completely crazy!"

Wen Gu listens to these thoughts every day, her eyes widening in shock again and again and again...

Later, she gets a job at a botanical garden, where all the flowers and plants are beautiful and harmless. Surely she'll be safe now.

Until she sees her elusive, cold director.

"Heh, a delicate little girl."

"She smells kind of good."

"I want to eat her."

Wen Gu: !!!!!!!!

A cutie who nervously tries to stay alive every day * a lofty man-eating flower who can't tell appetite from lust (not really)

Theme: The wonderful days of youth at school