Why Is the Lord of Monsters So Pure and Innocent?

Silly, sweet, pure-hearted, love-struck monster hero x scheming, sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside heroine

After finally completing her mission in the Infinite Worlds and entering a normal world, Xie Yi settled into the ideal life: raising cats, playing with dogs, avoiding violence, and lying flat in retirement.

Her younger boyfriend, Li Zhou, was tall and long-legged, with broad shoulders and a narrow waist. He was handsome and innocent.

She was very pleased, and thought she'd spend the rest of her life like this.

But at work, she discovered that something was a little off.

The students' class schedule included a course called Monster Fighting Techniques. Her colleagues kept strange-looking fluffy pets. Water monsters crawled out of abandoned pipes, and mischievous ghosts circled around the classroom...

It turned out this world was a sweet romance centered on the hero and heroine, with a conflict between monsters and humans.

The setting was there to create romantic opportunities for the leads, and the final dungeon was about slaying the Lord of Monsters and wiping out all monsters.

So Xie Yi's daily life became raising cats and flowers, teasing her boyfriend, and protecting him from monsters.

Her accomplishments included, but were not limited to, slicing in half a shadow monster that stalked her boyfriend, exorcising a whole restroom full of ghosts, setting a web-spinning monster on fire, and dealing with a giant dream-eating monster that tried to swallow her boyfriend...

One day, in a moment of passion, she kissed her boyfriend.

By accident, she touched something... a hard branch, with what looked like bright green leaves on it.

Xie Yi looked at the branch, then at the tiny vines sprouting all over her boyfriend's hair and the little pink flowers blooming on them. "!!!"

A thick vine was wrapped around her back, pulling her toward her boyfriend.

"Yi Yi, would you mind dating a tree?"

Her boyfriend's cheeks were flushed. His eyes were clear and bright as he looked at her and held her hand. "I... I really like you, Yi Yi."

Xie Yi: ?!

Damn it! Who have I been dating?

*

Li Zhou was the Lord of Monsters, and after finally taking human form, he could walk around wherever he wanted.

His family got him a fake identity so he could go to school, learn, and try to fit into the fascinating human civilization.

But studying was so hard. His agricultural science department required all sorts of reports, his classmates seemed to be hostile toward him, and the monsters couldn't help him.

Fortunately, his next-door neighbor was very friendly and helped him with many questions about school and daily life.

His family encouraged him to make friends and eagerly offered suggestions.

"Then can I be friends with you?" he asked.

The woman watering the flowers turned toward him in the sunlight and smiled. "Sure, but only if you become my boyfriend."

Li Zhou grinned. "Okay!"

A male friend is a boyfriend!

Later, when he learned what boyfriend meant, his face turned red as he asked Xie Yi, "Is it the kind of relationship where you can kiss and hug, and stay together forever?"

"I'll take that as a marriage proposal." She pinched his cheek teasingly. "Sure. Let's pick a date and get our marriage certificate."

Li Zhou: "..."

He really shouldn't have asked her.

How to Read:

1. The hero isn't weak. He's super strong, just needs to adjust to society. The heroine is even stronger.

2. Pure-hearted college boy x sweet-on-the-outside, dark-on-the-inside heroine

Theme: Love isn't salvation. Loving you is.