Super Detective: Duckling Cracks the Case

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If Jiang Tian could be reborn as a human, she'd definitely tell herself: Ducks are so cute. How could you eat a duck?

[Super sleuth, duck detective!]

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Jiang Tian, owner of a duck farm in Yicheng, was at the height of her youth and beauty when her family ran short on staff and sent her to deliver ducks to a roast duck shop. She got into a car accident on the way and lost her life, certain she would be reduced to nothing but a corpse.

But she still had all four limbs and all her organs. It was just that... she'd turned into a duck leg, duck neck, webbed feet, wings, heart, liver, and lungs.

"Quack? Quack? Quack!?" Jiang Tian looked down at her two bright yellow webbed feet and let out a voice like a drake.

Then she noticed the giant yellow duck logo on the delivery truck she was in. She was definitely a duck on its way to be roasted!

Wait, why is this truck shaking so much? Could this strange feeling be...

"Urgh, urgh, urgh!"

One afternoon, a vlog casually filmed by a passerby goes viral online. People aren't focused on the glamorous beauty wearing heavy makeup, but on the truck full of ducks behind her.

Unlike the other ducks, which are happily quacking, one long-necked duck hangs over the side of the truck, its head drooping miserably. Even its feathers seem to radiate gloom.

The whole internet laughs: "Ducks get carsick, too?"

Jiang Tian never imagined she'd become known not as the Duck Farming Queen, but as a duck with motion sickness.

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Just as she's about to be scalded and plucked, then have her neck cut, Jiang Tian meets her last lifeline: Xie Bei, her childhood friend and constant rival.

She escapes her cage and grabs his pants cuff in her beak.

"Quack, quack, quack." I won't bully you anymore.

"Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack." Save me! Otherwise, I'll tell everyone you still wet the bed when you were three.

Strangely, Xie Bei understands her. He "kindly" takes her home, where he bullies her in every possible way. Her life as a duck seems hopeless.

To be reborn as a human, she needs to find the person behind the accident that killed her and bring the culprit to justice.

Hey, she's only a duck now. How is she supposed to shoulder such a huge responsibility? How can she catch the culprit, bite their pants cuff?

Life as a duck is hard.

Jiang Tian glares viciously at Xie Bei. "Help me finish the mission and turn back into a human, or else... quack, quack, quack."

Xie Bei pins her to the bed by the neck with one hand while playing a game with the other. "Or else... what?"

Jiang Tian's determined expression begins to falter.

As the word Victory rings out, he leans over her, supporting himself with one arm. His long, defined fingers slide inch by inch over her duck head, beak, neck, and belly, then lower...

"Like this?"

"Quack!"

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While chasing the culprit, Jiang Tian accidentally unlocks a hidden skill. A kiss lets her stay human for a short while, but the number of uses is limited, and sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

Oh well, something is better than nothing. It's just too bad her childhood friend has to kiss a duck's beak.

Wait! Why does it seem like her childhood friend is getting more and more into it? She's back in human form, so why is he still kissing her and refusing to let go?

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I must have sinned in my past life to be a duck in this one.

A roast duck, no less!

The male lead's surname is Xie, pronounced Xie, not Jie. Please don't read his name as Jie Bei, oh my god hahahahahaha.

1.

One day after her breakup, Ling Qingqing is lounging around in bed when a post on a popular social media app makes her heart itch.

Before she can think, she messages her ex-boyfriend, who has been her neighbor across the hall since childhood and broke up with her just a couple of days ago.

[Want to get back together? I want to kiss.]

The reply comes quickly: [The kind where we break up again after the kiss?]

Ling Qingqing curls her toes in embarrassment, cursing herself for losing control and trying to salvage her dignity.

She has just typed, "What if I told you my phone typed and sent that by itself? Would you believe me?" when someone knocks on her bedroom window. The person she'd been messaging appears right outside.

Qi Fengyi pushes open the window with one hand, his eyes dark and deep. Sitting on her window seat, he tugs his collar up with the other hand. "I'm here to kiss you, Ling Qingqing."

"And I'll throw in a reunion, free of charge."

Hey, this is the sixth floor...

Wait! How did we get to the part where he's taking his shirt off?

2.

After the breakup, Ling Qingqing regrets it countless times and wants to be a good horse who goes back to eat the grass she left behind.

Every time, she sends a message...

[You there?]

[Which app's verification code?]

[Um, I wanted to ask you something.]

[I've loved you.]

[What are you doing?]

[Not missing you.]

[My mom asked me to bring something over to your place.]

[Got it. I'll hide in my room.]

There are countless conversations like these, each one hammering her hope of getting back together onto the nail of humiliation.

Fine, just you wait. Let's see if I can win you over again.

If we get back together, you're finished!

Blurb revealed on September 26, 2024

Inspired by real life.

A sweet little bedtime read, fluffy and silly. As long as it's sweet, that's all that matters!

A short story, under 100,000 words.

Theme: Humans and animals share one planet.