A Guide to Dating Nonhuman Men

The authorized edition is available only on Jinjiang Literature City. Writing is hard, so I hope you'll support the official version QAQ ◎ Sweet stories in separate arcs. Weibo: @Qianqian Word Machine My next novel will be The Eighth Year Without My Wife Blurb: Life exists in this world in all kinds of forms. Humans rule the planet that gave them life, while certain kinds of "life" have already slipped quietly into human society... [Story One] Mild-mannered, awkward office worker X Maine Coon boss When Song Jing graduated from graduate school, she kidnapped and replaced the purchase of a Maine Coon stray kitten from the school. The Maine Coon looked fierce, but had a sweet, gentle temperament and loved to nuzzle people. In the morning, before she was even out of bed, it would leap onto it and nuzzle Song Jing's ears furiously. Unfortunately, the cat went missing less than a year later. Song Jing searched for a long time and even got promoted several times, but she still couldn't find it. Recently, a new boss started work. He looked fierce, and since he wasn't her direct supervisor, Song Jing didn't want to talk to him much. Until later... On a blackout evening, He Mian and she were trapped in the office. He held her close, nuzzling her earlobe and neck, then lowered himself to take her hand and begged Song Jing to stroke his head. [Story Two] Workaholic family heir X devoted AI butler (executive assistant) This was the fifth night in a row that President Zhou had stayed up late working, he thought as he knocked on Zhou Junyu's study door and gently set a cup of warm milk on the desk. "President Zhou, you should get some rest," he said. Zhou Junyu glanced up at him, then lowered his head and continued working. He smiled helplessly. "Sometimes I can't tell whether you're the AI or I am." "It makes no difference. All you need to know is that I'm your master." Zhou Junyu propped his head on his hand and looked at him. He lowered his head and replied softly, "Of course. Whether or not I've been programmed to, you will always be my one and only master. I will always be loyal to you and love you." Even if he was nothing more than one of Zhou Junyu's toys. [Story Three] Socially anxious graduate X deceased childhood sweetheart After graduating, Jiang Qixin spent a long time looking for a place to live. At last, she found a cheap one-bedroom apartment near the subway. Perhaps because of its location, the apartment stayed cool even in summer. Only when she lay in bed that night did she realize it wasn't cool, but bone-chillingly cold. Ever since moving in, she'd even started having strange, unspeakable dreams at night. The face and voice in her dreams seemed strangely familiar... - It wasn't until the day she saw her dead childhood sweetheart that she learned he was haunting her. The first thing she asked him was, "Why didn't you ever come to my dreams all those years?" [Every heroine is a money-loving, emotionally clueless darling X a devoted, fiercely loyal, romance-obsessed man who always behaves himself.] [40% locked for 24 hours] Content notes: 1. All couples are sexually inexperienced; happy endings. All male leads are pure in body and mind. 2. Unrestrained personal kinks. The heroines will never have children. 3. All couples are heterosexual. The author does not accept the idea of psychological female-on-male domination. 4. The stories share a setting. The heroines are connected, but this won't affect the individual plots, so each story can be read on its own. Each is expected to be a hundred-thousand-word bedtime read. 5. Slow-burn, slice-of-life sweet fluff. My writing is limited, and I write for fun, so please don't force yourself if it's not to your taste!!! I hope you enjoy reading it, too. Since these are separate stories, I don't recommend buying the whole thing at once, dear readers. It's best to buy one chapter at a time ^3^ My completed stories: the A-man and B-woman romance Marriage Alliance with My Childhood Friend Alpha, and the childhood-friends story A Research Report on Adorable Aggression. Please check them out! I've also been serializing How Do I Deal With Turning into Tentacles? Please add my upcoming stories You Smell Delicious and The Eighth Year Without My Wife to your reading lists~ The Eighth Year Without My Wife is a widower romance [poor thing]. If you're interested, dear readers, please add it to your list. ○ Money-grubbing, hard-of-hearing, utterly dense woman X gentle househusband who turns into a gloomy man ○ Secret crush from the male lead / widower romance Blurb: After a work transfer, He Xingzhi is assigned to the development team for a historical romance game she used to play in college. To get familiar with the game, she creates a new account, and her consciousness is transported into the game world once more. He Xingzhi remembers treating the game like a business simulation back then. But the game was still in testing, and the technology wasn't mature enough. She barely remembers anything from her time in the game, except that there was an NPC who had been especially lucky for her financially. Now the game's romance plots have become a hit. To keep up with the market and do her job, she decides to try the romance routes and have some fun with the men. Just as He Xingzhi is getting close to the elegant Minister of Justice, the spirited young general, the mysterious Imperial Preceptor, and the aloof, domineering Ninth Prince, she is summoned to the residence of Song Huaijing, an NPC with nothing to do with the romance plot and the current Assistant Grand Councillor. Only belatedly does she realize that this man seems to have gotten attached to her, and he doesn't seem as mild and harmless as he looks... He Xingzhi: Wait a second, is this even in the game?! * In the eighth year after A Zhi left him, she came back. By then, A Zhi had already agreed to marry him. Since neither of them had any family left, Song Huaijing personally prepared her dowry, making sure every part of the traditional betrothal was in order as he waited to become her lawful husband. But she disappeared without a trace, dead or alive. Just as she had suddenly appeared by his side, A Zhi had vanished without warning. He waited for A Zhi. She had to still be alive. Even if she truly was gone, he planned to remain a widower for the rest of his life. Just as even Song Huaijing had given up hope, A Zhi came back. Though she had lost her memory, her looks, name, and habits were unchanged. A Zhi still loved money more than life, and her old problem with poor hearing was just the same. She was still so nearsighted that she had to get very close to see things clearly. Song Huaijing was certain that the person before him was A Zhi. Watching the men who coveted her, Song Huaijing wished he could pull out the marriage contract he'd read alone countless times at night and tell them, "This marriage contract has been approved by the Court of Imperial Sacrifices. I'm A Zhi's lawful husband. No matter how much you cling to her, the most you can hope for is becoming a concubine!" A Zhi could only be his, and he could only be A Zhi's... Only after He Xingzhi finally remembered what had happened did she ask him, "Hey, when did I ever say I wanted to marry you?!" [Bonus Scene One] When Song Huaijing discovered those men were still circling her, he wanted to wring every last one of their necks. But he kept his gentle, caring facade as he asked her: "A... Miss He, have you run into some difficult men lately?" He Xingzhi squinted through her nearsighted eyes, looking completely baffled. "What male models? You can order male models? There are male models in this world?" [Bonus Scene Two] Song Huaijing: Bunch of posers. Strangers, keep out. Friends, get lost. One slap for the Minister of Justice, two for the Imperial Preceptor, and the General Ningyuan gets three. Oh, isn't this our Ninth Highness? Where are you off to, Your Highness? Going to listen to music? All right, take your time. Heh, this one's the biggest poser of them all. Upcoming story: You Smell Delicious ○ Succubus heroine with a little human blood X human hero with a little succubus blood Blurb: There are only two permanent households on Su Paier's floor. One is hers, and the other seems to belong to a human man around her age. Aside from occasionally nodding and greeting each other when they cross paths on their way to and from work, they don't interact. All she knows is that her neighbor's surname is Bian, he's over six feet tall, and he has mild nearsightedness and wears glasses all the time. He looks like a well-mannered intellectual. He seems to be an associate researcher at the provincial animal research institute, exactly what she'd expect of a scientist. Hmm... A human like that probably wouldn't taste good. Su Paier is mostly succubus, but she's such a homebody that she's never seduced a human or fed on their life force. Still, she thinks the neighbor across the hall definitely wouldn't taste good. Until one night, when she gets home late from work and finds the water heater has broken. The repairman has already finished for the day. In the end, her neighbor comes over to fix it. She'd thought that a man with a degree in science wouldn't know how to do that sort of thing. To her surprise, he fixes the water heater in no time. Unfortunately, he accidentally cuts the back of his hand on a piece of sheet metal, and blood wells up from the wound. Su Paier sniffs. A sublime aroma fills her nose, more tempting than any food she'd ever eaten in the human world. She looks at the cut on his hand. To make it easier to fix the water heater, Bian Siken is wearing nothing but a white shirt, now damp where water from the showerhead accidentally sprayed him. To her, he looks like a crystal-skinned shrimp dumpling. Su Paier swallows unconsciously. She was wrong. Bian Siken smells delicious. * Bian Siken somehow becomes her food, and to make the arrangement fair, Su Paier pays him for his meals. But Su Paier discovers something rather troubling: once she's gotten a taste, she feels like Bian Siken isn't enough to satisfy her. But she can't find any human who tastes better! Just as she's trying to find a new food source, Bian Siken shows up wearing the outfit she likes best. He lowers his eyes and says, sounding a little aggrieved, "Could you eat only me?" "You feel so hungry because a succubus can't get by on human blood alone." "Then what else do I have to eat?" Su Paier asks, confused. "You also have to feed on people's life force." "?" "!" Later, Su Paier lies in bed and pats her slightly sore belly, satisfied. Her neighbor really is a carefully selected, premium delicacy. But she doesn't know that Bian Siken deliberately cut his hand on the sheet metal that day. [Blunt heroine X calculating but kind-hearted caretaker] Theme: Love warms all things in the world