The One Who Has Exclusive Claim to His Pheromones

*A silly, sweet little story, coming soon: How Could I Possibly Like You? The blurb is at the end. Many thanks!

Wei Cheng, the Empire's crown princess, detests Pei Ran, who always seems to outshine her. Even though they stay out of each other's way, Wei Cheng always chooses to avoid him.

One day, she loses her memory and falls from grace. Mistaken for a silver-shaded cat, she's given to a man with limited mobility as a therapy pet.

Wei Cheng initially refuses, until she catches the scent on the man's body. The intoxicating smell of catnip drives her wild.

Seeing the perfect introvert, who spends every day eating nothing, drinking nothing, and avoiding all human contact, Wei Cheng realizes it's time to do something.

When her catnip can't sleep, Wei Cheng leads ninety-nine cat underlings in a chorus of "Lullaby";

When her catnip is unhappy, Wei Cheng forces the neighbor's dog to dance to "The Little Swans";

Thanks to Wei Cheng's strategy of piling food onto her boss's plate while spinning the table away from everyone else, she finally manages to grow closer to her catnip.

Until Wei Cheng suddenly regains her memory.

Pei Ran, suffering through an out-of-control burst of mental power, is pale, his battle-worn beauty at its peak.

Wei Cheng decides to make the most of the opportunity and strike while he's down!

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As the Empire's most formidable "weapon," Pei Ran was the last person anyone expected to see his era come to an end in his twenties.

Once the darling of the heavens, he plunged into the mud overnight, and everyone kept their distance.

Only the cat that had unexpectedly come into his life stayed by his side, no matter how badly he treated it.

Then his mental power ran amok, bringing pain throughout his body. The cat came running at the sound, then suddenly turned into a person.

The familiar face wore a strange smile. Before Pei Ran could react, she pinned him down and bit into his neck.

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"Be good, and I promise I'll only bite you a hundred million times!"

Pei Ran: ...

"Man, with such a pretty silver collar on, you must be trying to seduce me!"

Pei Ran: …

Pei Ran returned to the battlefield and remained invincible. The whole Empire rejoiced.

The only difference, perhaps, was the furry cord wrapped around his wrist, apparently woven from some kind of animal fur.

At a celebration banquet, someone nervously dared to ask him about it.

Pei Ran's expression softened. "It's how cats mark their mates. Don't you have one?"

*An unconventional female Alpha and male Omega pairing. The heroine doesn't grow anything strange, but it's girl-on-boy.

*My take on an ABO sweet treat.

*The blurb for How Could I Possibly Like You? is here, chirp chirp chirp.

Back in high school, Chu Xiguang had a destined nemesis: Ming Tiao.

She came first in the midterms, and he had to come first in the finals.

She took first place in the province in a speech competition, and he had to go national in the information technology competition.

What made Chu Xiguang's heart ache the most was that

she regularly fed a stray cat at school, and the cat not only rubbed against her, but also let Ming Tiao stroke its head and rub its belly.

Chu Xiguang thought they would go their separate ways after graduation.

But when she got to university, she saw her nemesis's face again.

Ming Tiao had met plenty of people, but the one he was most incompatible with was Chu Xiguang.

In high school,

to avoid witnessing her confession, he climbed over the school wall and stumbled into a brawl, nearly getting beaten up.

They ran into each other at university,

and she took him out with a slide tackle, scattering the snowman he'd just built across the ground.

One slip later, he ended up on the school's confession wall as a creepy marriage-proposal maniac.

Ming Tiao swore to himself: If I ever get close to Chu Xiguang again, I'm a dog.

Until one day, Ming Tiao happened to see a photograph.

The girl in the wedding dress wore a radiant smile, clearly immersed in happiness.

Someone who should have been hundreds of kilometers away showed up downstairs from Chu Xiguang's place, as if he'd just left a formal event.

He stared at Chu Xiguang. "Want my blessing? Then you've got the wrong idea. You messed with me..."

Chu Xiguang cut him off. "It's my ex-boyfriend's wedding, and I need a male date."

Ming Tiao changed his tune at once. "You picked the right person to mess with. Send me the time and place."

Theme: Be brave enough to be yourself.