My Desk Mate, the Grim Reaper, Loves Desserts

Coming soon: New Classmate Seems to Like Me. Please add it to your reading list!

Synopsis: (I'll rewrite this when I have time. The character concepts probably won't change, but I'll overhaul the worldbuilding and plot. It will probably be longer... I've had some new insights. I'm currently saving up chapters for another book, and I'll do my best with this one next.)

Wen Nan is a god of death. Both he and his clothes are a monotonous black, making him look gloomy and cold.

But this grim reaper has a hobby that doesn't suit his icy exterior at all: he loves desserts, especially the really sweet kind.

Recently, Wen Nan has taken a liking to the desserts in the hands of a high school student.

So, in his spare time, the thing he thinks about most is how to get that human kid to make him delicious desserts every day, and make it look perfectly legitimate.

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Ju Yan thinks the new transfer student in his class is a little strange.

On the first day of school, the transfer student pats Ju Yan on the shoulder and solemnly tells him, "I just helped you chase off a little ghost."

On the second day, the transfer student offers a stack of ghost money in exchange for Ju Yan's fruit cake.

On the third day, the transfer student shows up at Ju Yan's house and asks, "Can I live with you?"

Ju Yan nearly spits out his orange soda.

Later, he discovers that the little ghost the transfer student mentioned might really have been a ghost, and that the transfer student loves sweets.

So the transfer student probably wants to live with him... to freeload on desserts.

After all, his family owns a dessert shop.

[Gods of death, urban ghost stories]

Synopsis for New Classmate Seems to Like Me:

As the school bully of Wutong No. 7 High School, Jiang Pan has been finding the new student in his class seriously annoying lately.

He arranges a fight with students from neighboring No. 8 High School, and the new student happens to pass by and, in front of all his buddies, tells him to go home and do his workbook.

He finishes a fight in an alley, only for the new student to appear and warn him not to linger in that alley the next day.

And lately, every time he crosses the road on his way home, he keeps coincidentally seeing the new student look at him with concern, as if afraid he'll get hit by a car at any moment.

Jiang Pan thinks the new student might, perhaps, possibly... have a crush on him.

So one day after school, Jiang Pan corners the new student at the entrance to an alley, intending to firmly reject his confession.

But this time, the new student deftly avoids him. A few minutes later, a message from the new student appears on Jiang Pan's phone: "...I have superpowers. Do you believe me?"

Jiang Pan: "..."

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By a stroke of fate, Pei Xinghe gains a special ability: he can see what will happen tomorrow.

The school bully in his class will show up at school tomorrow on crutches after getting into a fight, so Pei Xinghe happens to run into him on the way home and gives him a heads-up.

There will be an attack by a criminal in an alley near the school tomorrow, and the bully likes to fight in that alley, so Pei Xinghe can't help warning him about that, too.

The bully will be in such a hurry crossing the road after school tomorrow that he'll nearly get hit by a car, so Pei Xinghe keeps glancing at his retreating figure.

As he watches, Pei Xinghe suddenly thinks the bully has such a slim waist. He really wants to hug him. The bully's lips look so cute when he's eating ice cream. He really wants to kiss them...

Then one day, he foresees that he will confess the truth, but the bully corners him at the entrance to an alley and says firmly, "I don't like guys."

This time, Pei Xinghe suddenly turns and runs.

Theme: When you are worn down, I will bring brightness to your life.