An Honest Man, but the Lord of Rules

My completed novel, Handbook for an Apprentice Deity, is available in my author profile!

This world is sick. Monsters are everywhere, the uncanny runs rampant, and no one follows the old rules anymore.

Except you.

You're an honest person.

You work diligently. But your boss waves his tentacles around, docks your pay, and tries to take advantage of you.

With a sigh, you pin his head down with a knife and make him regret not obeying the law.

You politely turn down a sales pitch. But the salesperson bares his sharp teeth, hoping to leave you penniless;

You calmly stuff the contract into his mouth and teach him what a legal transaction means.

You go shopping at the mall, happy as can be. But a monster swallows a hero, and the gift you bought for your boyfriend is knocked to the ground.

You smile as you chop the monster to pieces, making it drop countless gold coins.

You obey the law and live a peaceful life, yet, somehow, everyone knows who you are.

In other people's eyes, you're brazen and reckless. Everything that crosses you ends up in hell.

No one knows where you are. People call you by countless aliases.

Your followers are fanatical, so bizarre legends spring up everywhere.

Your admirer appears cold and chaste, aloof and distant.

But the look he gives you is greedy and obsessed.

He chases you, adores you, yearns for you, and trembles at your scent.

He wants to become your partner.

If there are no rules, then you are the rules.

You will establish the order of the new world.

[Overpowered Honest Shou × Extremely Possessive, Brooding Nonhuman Gong]

The honest one is beautiful too.

Notes:

1. This is not a rules-horror story. It's an urban cosmic-horror story with uncanny elements.

2. Lighthearted story, third-person narration, entirely fictional setting. Please don't draw real-world parallels!

3. If you like it, please check out my author profile and Weibo, @Jinjiang Yunjiu ~

[2024.8.31]

----Coming Soon----

Me, an Evil God, Getting Married on the Spot

Xu Suyi, also known as the Evil God.

Overworked, with no days off all year, he walks off the job and goes on vacation.

He nearly gets spotted by an inspector when he enters the human world, and the inspector looks exactly like his archenemy!

Xu Suyi: ...What are the odds?

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Xu Suyi invites Shen Heng over for dinner, while also testing him.

Underling A pokes his head out of a painting on the wall. Black, viscous liquid flows out of the wall, as if from the depths of hell.

Shen Heng steps in front of him and tears down the painting in one swift motion. "The upstairs pipe must have burst. Dirty water's leaking onto your painting."

Xu Suyi: ...

Xu Suyi invites Shen Heng to watch a newly released horror movie.

Underling B twists into a pretzel behind him, rotten tentacles flailing as it charges toward them.

Shen Heng moves behind him and pulls off one tentacle. "The movie theater's models are shoddy. I'll make you one myself sometime."

Xu Suyi: ...

The city falls into crisis, and Xu Suyi rushes to find Shen Heng.

But all he sees is devastation. Where is Shen Heng?

Xu Suyi goes berserk. His indescribable form makes every monster prostrate itself, trembling in fear.

When Shen Heng fights his way out of the monster horde, he sees an entity more powerful than any monster going berserk, while all the monsters present are too furious to speak up.

After their eyes meet, Xu Suyi collapses into his arms. "My blood sugar's low. I think I'm hallucinating."

Shen Heng: ...

The monsters: ...

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The first time Shen Heng saw Xu Suyi was in a restricted zone surrounded by monsters.

Amid countless ugly, rotting, filthy anomalies, only that person stood out, gazing at him from the darkness. With eyes of clear black and white, he was like a ray of light in a ruined world, crashing straight into Shen Heng's heart.

Shen Heng wanted to protect that light.

Later, he discovered that the light seemed to be a little too bright.

Frantic, testing-everything shou × Unflappable gong

A lighthearted story with Lovecraftian elements, romance and plot. The blurb may be revised slightly before the story begins.

Theme: The brave are the first to enjoy the world