My Monster, Mr.

In the year 2840, winter in Hang City was bitterly cold. Beast tides raged beyond the city, and the military suffered heavy casualties before finally quelling the threat.

1.

Xiao Qinya sat in a teahouse on the second floor, waiting for a blind date.

She loved looking down and taking in everything below her. It was her favorite vantage point on the battlefield.

A man pushed through the door, wrapped in the snow and wind outside. He wore a suit that outlined his tall, muscular frame.

But a metal prosthetic showed beneath the left leg of his trousers.

How unusual. Disabilities were rare in this era. Prosthetics were so realistic that even the poor could get one without any visible flaws. And he was the new head of the Yan family, the foremost of the Ten Great Families: Yan Jue.

He stood tall, his right hand gripping a cane like a scepter. He entered, looked up, and met her gaze.

Every movement was precise, as if he'd rehearsed it countless times.

Xiao Qinya froze. He was incredibly handsome, but his looks weren't what made her lose her composure.

It was because he looked exactly like someone, someone who had died, someone who had stayed by her side through the darkest period of her youth.

The first time she met him, she asked him to marry her.

She thought he would refuse, or call her crazy.

Instead, he smiled tenderly. "That suits me perfectly. I fell for Miss Xiao at first sight."

2.

It was just a marriage alliance. There was no such thing as love at first sight.

Xiao Qinya hadn't been sincere, so she was perfectly willing to accept Yan Jue's feigned affection.

People said Yan Jue was ruthless, but at home he was gentle and refined, and granted her every wish.

Xiao Qinya loved his cooking, and grew used to having someone waiting for her when she came home late.

Everyone said he'd been sickly since childhood, a useless family head who couldn't even truss a chicken.

But in front of Xiao Qinya, he tore an S-rank beast apart with his bare hands, though he was in beast form at the time.

The problem was that each time he transformed to fight, he became violent and lost control at night.

Only Xiao Qinya's soothing words could calm him.

She thought that was why he had married her.

3.

Until her dead unattainable first love, Yan Ming, who was also Yan Jue's younger brother, came back alive.

Their feigned affection and false pretenses were shattered...

Yan Jue lost control more and more often.

The usually refined and gentle Yan Jue, who would only hide in a corner and growl and whimper even when transformed, was no longer content with Xiao Qinya's soothing words through a closed door.

Xiao Qinya finally saw his beast form: a snow-white lion.

"What a beautiful white lion."

Yan Jue lifted his head from where it had been buried between his front paws, a flicker of disbelief in his eyes.

At first, he only rubbed his head lightly against Xiao Qinya's palm.

Then he began secretly licking her cheek. His rough tongue tickled, making Xiao Qinya giggle.

The white lion's icy blue eyes darkened...

[Reading Guide]

1. The heroine is a newly hired military academy teacher. She seems to have a plant-type soul beast and appears delicate, but she's good at playing the weakling to catch her enemies off guard. Because she's so particular about food, clothing, housing, and transportation, people at the military base see her as an oddball.

2. The hero seems gentle and refined, but turns savage when he transforms into a white lion. He's absolutely gentle with the heroine, and is good at showering her with money and cooking.

3. Both spouses are great actors. Happy ending.

4. Background: After a nuclear war, Blue Star was nearly destroyed. The Ten Great Families rebuilt Earth with the help of high-dimensional alien forces, but humanity paid a steep price. Earth became a prison for the high-dimensional star systems, where countless ferocious beasts were sent. Powerful Earthlings who awakened special abilities were tasked with keeping them in check.

-----Please bookmark my next story, "She Starts Out with a Bowl." Here's the blurb--------

Hua Xiaowan was a typical poor person on the planet Xiya.

When an auntie from the slums found her, she was still a baby, clutching a broken rice bowl and wrapped in a tattered blanket.

The slum residents sighed that she was born to beg.

Hua Xiaowan lived up to their expectations. When she grew up, she became good at begging and scavenging.

One day, a batch of discarded humanoid housekeeping robots arrived at the dump, and Hua Xiaowan went to see if she could find anything useful.

She found a robot with a handsome face, perfect proportions, and well-defined muscles.

She cleaned him up, handling him as she pleased, until Hua Xiaowan tried to pull off the last scrap of clothing covering his lower body.

He grabbed it and held on tight.

Hua Xiaowan wondered to herself: Had the auntie really been right? He was so handsome, he looked like a robot made for that sort of thing.

Was resisting her just some mode he'd activated? How was she supposed to make him let go?

Slap him and tell him, "If you won't do it, there are plenty of other robots who will"?

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But later, Hua Xiaowan increasingly felt that there was something wrong with her robot.

He would suddenly sigh, "Why am I still not dead?"

He seemed to have taken a liking to her bowl, and would lunge for it like a madman until she knocked him unconscious.

A robot this depressed and volatile was no good. Hua Xiaowan decided to take him back to the dump, but they were attacked on the way.

The robot suddenly went berserk and ripped out the attacker's heart with his bare hands.

A robot on a rampage was terrifying! Hua Xiaowan pretended to be dead...

Him: You saw that, didn't you?

Hua Xiaowan: ?? I didn't see anything!

Him: My name is Qin Xiaozhi. Let's make a deal.

Hua Xiaowan: You can have the bowl.

Him: I don't want the bowl anymore.

Hua Xiaowan: Then what do you want?

The man smiled beautifully and pointed at Hua Xiaowan.

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He said he commanded countless star systems and ruled a corner of the universe. He could promise her endless wealth and give her handsome male slaves, as long as she helped him leave this place.

Hua Xiaowan thought he wasn't just depressed and volatile, but delusional too. But he said he could send her to study in a high-level star system, and she was truly tempted.

Later, she married him, saved her money, and really managed to scrape together enough for a ticket off the planet Xiya.

Hua Xiaowan kept her promise and parted ways with him, then happily went off to school.

Qin Xiaozhi never imagined that he would fall for a seemingly kind and harmless woman.

He could accept her ordering him around, or using him up after they married. He could even accept that she was after his money. But he absolutely could not accept her turning around and abandoning him.

He was going to make her suffer, heartbroken and consumed with regret.

Sincere, kind, beautiful beggar girl x universe-dominating overlord who crawls through the darkness for love

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