I Hear the Imperial Marshal Likes to Eat Zombies

After the zombie crisis was brought under control, the uninfected humans and the zombies who had regained their sanity managed to coexist in a precarious peace. Marshal Sheng Yi of the Empire played a crucial role in making that possible. Unfortunately, he suffered irreparable injuries in the final battle, losing both his sense of taste and smell.

For an alpha, it was practically a devastating blow. He could no longer smell the sweet fragrance of omegas, and so they could no longer arouse him into heat.

Everyone said the marshal was basically half a eunuch now.

Sheng Yi took it in stride. He didn't like those annoying, fragile omegas anyway. Back when he led his alpha generals in protecting Earth, all the omegas did was cause trouble.

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The little vegetarian zombie Yunzhong Xiangwan opened a small shop in the zombie settlement.

He made all the buns and pastries, grilled sausages and fried skewers, cakes and cookies himself. They looked beautiful, but tasted strange to ordinary humans. Only the zombies liked them.

Yunzhong Xiangwan was quite content, quietly running his little shop. He opened on time every day and regularly added new items to the menu. Then one night, just as he was about to close, an unwelcome guest burst in.

"Ding-dong! Welcome!"

Yunzhong Xiangwan looked up at the unfamiliar human in front of him. "Huh?"

Sheng Yi had been ambushed and stumbled into Yunzhong Xiangwan's shop. In disbelief, he breathed in the rich aromas. Beyond the food, there was another scent, one that was intoxicating and made it hard to rein in his instincts...

Sheng Yi's gaze slowly settled on the dazed little zombie behind the counter.

One day, after he'd eaten his way through every last item in the convenience store, and its owner too...

Sheng Yi: "It's okay if we can't have children. We can adopt. Even if the child didn't come from your body, I'll love them all the same."

Yunzhong Xiangwan, so startled that he dropped his sunflower seeds: "How did you know I'm pregnant!!!"

Sheng Yi: ?

Yunzhong Xiangwan, crouching on the ground and drawing circles: "You really do look down on zombies. You don't want a zombie baby either!!!"

Sheng Yi: ??

After they cleared up the misunderstanding, a few months later the dignified Imperial Marshal was holding a baby in one arm and a bucket of feed in the other, feeding the chickens, ducks, and geese in the yard for his little zombie.

Bottom: At first, a slow-witted, sweet, easily fooled househusband-type little zombie. Later... "Who else wants a go!!!"

Top: At first, a chauvinist who looked down on omegas. Later, a henpecked husband doing odd jobs at the convenience store and feeding chickens for his darling.

[Baby on the way, 1v1, happy ending]

[He's not one of those horribly disfigured zombies. He's just very pale and bloodless-looking. His skin gets hurt easily, so he's covered in bruises, and sometimes bleeds. Ugly-cute (?)]

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"Desperately Seeking a Mute Potion"

Man Xinghe (bottom): Ice-cold beauty, but only at work / Sharp-tongued champion, unlocked after work / Single by sheer merit / Won't make the first move, won't refuse, won't take responsibility / Specialist in dealing with suckers

Yuan Ye (top): Master of overthinking / Pathetic fool whose secret crush backfired / Victim of a shattered illusion / Searching for his lost white moonlight / Desperately seeking a mute potion / Soaring through the skies, kneeling on the ground

#Whoever falls first is a dog

#Also known as "The Ice-Cold Beauty Scam," "Why White Moonlights Belong in the Past," and "Don't Fall for an Ice-Cold Beauty, You'll Regret It"

Man Xinghe: I'm a cultural relic restorer. Cool and refined at work, sharp-tongued after hours, single since birth. My life's ambition is simple: marry a beautiful wife and live a peaceful life.

Then, because I filled out a form incorrectly, the System forced me to share a home with a six-foot-two helicopter pilot.

He says he fell in love with me at first sight, that after waiting three years he finally managed to trick me into dating him, and that I'm his ice-cold beauty.

I say: Are you sure? Because I'm about to open my mouth.

Yuan Ye: I'm a helicopter pilot. I spent two years waiting in the assignment pool for that one person.

I caught a glimpse of him three years ago. He was quiet as an ink painting in the cultural relic restoration room, and I remembered him for three whole years.

Three years later, I finally managed to trick him into dating me.

I was overjoyed. I was completely smitten.

Then he started talking.

...Where can I buy a mute potion? Urgent. Waiting for an answer online.

Man Xinghe: I'm an unlucky guy who had to quit and go solo after my workplace ran out of funding. My studio is in an urban village, with rent of eight hundred a month. I restore family trees, touch up old paintings, and argue with clients.

He left a bank card on my shoe cabinet. The PIN was my birthday. I said it was an investment and that I'd pay him back.

Whoever falls first is a dog. Woof.

Yuan Ye: I'm the only son of a chairman whose uncle took control of the company after Grandpa died, while my cousins ganged up on me.

I won every minor battle, but my uncle still had more money, more people, and more connections.

My uncle had a good eye, though. He lent me five hundred thousand to invest in his studio.

Whoever falls first is a dog. Woof.

Theme: Even a zombie in the apocalypse should never give up hope.