A Nonhuman's Guide to Finding a Mate

Next up, please add this to your reading list: The Only Moonlight in a Strange World. Blurb below.

[Monster romance anthology. Even the gloomy, dangerous, and vicious ones become lovesick wives!] (Completed)

[Deep-Sea Desire] (Completed)

A possessive Ocean Lord desperate to cling to his lover during mating season x a rational researcher with no interest in sex

When strange creatures began appearing in the ocean, researcher Li Zhi was dispatched to a coastal research station to help deal with them.

Li Zhi's ideas clashed with those of the other researchers at the base, so they didn't care for him.

But despite being pushed to the margins, Li Zhi had a natural appeal to the creatures under study.

Especially the newcomer, Subject 08. It was vicious and violent toward the other researchers,

but gentle and obedient in front of Li Zhi, willingly cooperating with his research.

Lately, however, Subject 08 had taken to secretly winding its tentacles around Li Zhi's waist and crawling into his bed at night.

Li Zhi expressionlessly peeled 08 off himself and tossed it back into the lab.

The very next second, enormous, sticky blue-black tentacles swept around his waist and dragged him into a cave.

[The Twin Realm] (Completed)

A pair of deceptive, unhinged snake brothers with special abilities x a beautiful, fair-skinned, powerful dad type

Shen Luoxing lost his memory and drifted into this city three years ago. Pollution sources were everywhere, steadily shrinking the space where humans could survive. Ordinary people had no choice but to keep moving, banding together for warmth and safety.

While scavenging one day, Shen Luoxing found an egg that hatched into two little snakes. What could he do? He decided to raise them.

The little snakes grew bigger and bigger, and could even conjure lightning and flames. They gave him a comforting sense of protection amid the chaos.

Shen Luoxing thought that although their family of three was a little strange, they were all precious to one another.

Only when their tails and arms wound around his body did he suddenly realize that his older and younger brothers had feelings for him.

[Entangled in the Forest] (Completed)

A clingy, intensely possessive vine x an easygoing layabout who likes to lie flat

Fresh out of college, Ruan Qinghuai impulsively boarded a tour bus for a trip, only for the bus to plunge off a cliff.

Ruan Qinghuai and the other tourists awoke in a forest. They had agreed to stick together, but his companions stole his backpack.

Ruan Qinghuai: Great, I'm doomed!

Just as Ruan Qinghuai lay flat and waited to die, a pile of wild fruit suddenly appeared in front of him, along with a beautiful flower crown woven from wildflowers.

A vine on the ground was sneaking away. Ruan Qinghuai grabbed it.

Thanks to the vine, while everyone else struggled to survive, he ate, drank, and had fun in the strange forest as if he were on vacation.

After he said a single word to one of its kind, the vine beside him grew several times larger. It coiled around his wrists and ankles and hoisted him high into the air.

Ruan Qinghuai: Huh?!!

[Mechanical Restraint] (Completed)

A dirty-mouthed, role-play-loving humanoid machine x a cool, arrogant, master-of-disguise assassin

It was a mechanical heart. Bai Xuanye picked it up, glanced at it, and threw it away. From then on, it kept mysteriously showing up in his pocket.

Bai Xuanye: I got scammed. Annoying.

*

Bai Xuanye installed it in a little robot. Perfect fit.

Machine: Too small. I want a bigger one, and I want one below too (^_^)

Bai Xuanye scoffed. "Get lost. Dream on."

After an assassination attempt one time,

Machine: The data shows that your mental cortex is overly active. I recommend using xx to relieve it. With me (^з^)

Bai Xuanye: "Get lost! Stop making those weird faces!!"

[Shadow's Longing] (Completed)

A gloomy, lovesick, husband-like hungry shadow x a sickly undercover agent who does whatever he wants, has no acting skills, and behaves outrageously

Someone later asked in an interview: "How did you manage to stay undercover until the very end?"

Ji Qingyue lowered his eyes to the shadow writhing on the ground and stepped on it, warning it to behave.

"Well... maybe I looked so much like a spy that nobody suspected I was one?"

*

The shadow, displeased at being stepped on, kept itself hidden. Invisible black mist swirled around Ji Qingyue, wrapping tightly around him.

He smells so good. I have to lick him a few more times tonight.

[Unknown Hunt] (Completed)

A shadowy, clingy, identity-hopping unknown creature with separation anxiety x a charming, calculating superior

Su Zexu thought things had been strange lately. The people he met all felt like the same person, and every night he had the odd feeling that someone was watching him.

How interesting. What could it be? Heh, it seems I've found a pattern.

*

One night, Su Zexu swiftly handcuffed the figure beside him, who was pretending to be asleep. He smiled. "Nice imitation, but humans can't stay soft forever."

"Mm-hmm. Sorry, you're under arrest~"

[Dragon Taming] (Completed)

A clingy, lovesick evil dragon of unknown intelligence in its breeding season x a pampered young master on the verge of a daily breakdown

Bad news: He was kidnapped by an evil dragon.

Worse news: The dragon was in its breeding season.

...But he really couldn't lay eggs!!!!!!

[Evil God's Covetous Gaze] (Completed)

A fragmented, obsessive evil god whose consciousness is divided x a morally flexible love con artist who lives in the moment

He tried to seduce a rich guy and ended up with a real male ghost.

Reading Guide:

1. Written for my own enjoyment: a few strange but adorable monster stories.

2. Set in a fictional world. Both leads are each other's first and only, and all the tops are nonhuman.

3. The tops are all dangerous, but only act gentle in front of their beloved.

4. A monster anthology. The stories may not be written in order.

5. Aside from their original forms, the tops can all take on attractive human appearances.

6. 30% content protection. Thanks to everyone who supports official reading (sending love).

Please add this to your reading list!

The Only Moonlight in a Strange World

[Face-Slapping + Secret Identities + Max-Level Expert + The Moonlight Returns from the Dead]

After losing his memory, Shen Xi came to a strange world and became an ordinary pet caretaker who supported his family.

To provide for his ever-growing collection of "pets," Shen Xi took odd jobs in game instances.

A timed instance with a 99% death rate opened, and Shen Xi was selected.

The best-looking unfamiliar face among a group of veteran players, Shen Xi immediately drew the attention of both the players and the livestream audience.

The player haters kept mocking him.

[Let's bet how many seconds this pretty boy, who can't lift a thing, lasts before he gets killed.]

The instance was full of dangers. The players struggled to survive, but Shen Xi breezed through with one outrageous move after another.

Then the boss appeared. Black tentacles spread from behind its towering figure, and its handsome, pale face was twisted with sinister madness.

The players reached a dead end in despair, on the verge of being wiped out.

The newcomer named Shen Xi walked by, stepping over a floor covered in writhing tentacles as he headed toward the boss. He smacked it on the forehead and scolded it.

"Black Dumpling, no misbehaving and scaring people."

The players stared in horror, thinking he had gone mad. The haters in the livestream erupted in laughter and mockery.

[LOL, he's asking to die.] [It's over! The newbie's about to get torn apart!]

[Who does he think he is? Does he think the boss will listen to him?]

Suddenly, the flailing tentacles froze. They retreated meekly, like children who'd done something wrong.

The next second, the instance boss lowered its head. "Understood, Master."

The terrifying tentacles swayed as the boss followed Shen Xi away, leaving the players behind, stunned. Were they saved?

Wait, Master???!!!!

The livestream went completely wild.

What was going on? Why was this newbie talking to it like he was training a dog? Why did the instance boss look like an obedient pet?!

That wasn't all. The players found that things were getting stranger and stranger.

Was Shen Xi the long-lost moonlight of the famously aloof powerhouse?

Were the leaders of two major player guilds both Shen Xi's close friends?

Why did the vicious S-rank monsters in the instances get all clingy around Shen Xi? Why did they keep his portraits and personal belongings?

And that strange evil god: It was supposed to be a punishment instance, so why had it dropped to one knee in front of Shen Xi?

Just who was this guy? The player haters were in despair.

Help! Do all of you share the same moonlight?!

*

Shen Xi thought this was his first time entering an instance. Who knew he was actually a max-level expert returning to the game?

He was powerful and steadfast, with clear likes and dislikes. He was the one and only moonlight in the hearts of countless first-generation players and strange creatures.

During the ten years he was gone, they had all waited for his return.

Reading Guide

1. The protagonist is the strongest. The entire story serves the protagonist.

2. The love interest is an evil god with several secret identities.

Theme: When we face the sunlight, our shadows are always behind us