Apologies, I'm about to change the premise. I've got the idea, but haven't written the blurb yet. I want to passionately build a widower romance.
Yu Nian had a plan. He would work at this shady bar until he saved up 200,000 star coins, then buy a Class C species identity ID and take a black-market starship to the planet of the dead to start a new life.
Then, on the new planet of the dead, he would open a shady bar of his own and make other people do the dirty work for him. After that, he'd live quietly and wait to die.
As part of this plan, he could afford to buy himself only one red bean bun each month as a treat.
After a whole day of backbreaking work, Yu Nian dragged his exhausted body through the door and found a low-grade slime monster had eaten his entire red bean bun.
Furious, Yu Nian grabbed a frying pan and smacked the slime flat. The stubborn low-grade monster clung to the bottom of the pan and reached out a tentacle to touch Yu Nian's wrist.
The monster was dizzy from the delicious scent coming off Yu Nian. Smitten, it clung to the pan's underside, thinking, What an amazing meal!
The veins stood out on Yu Nian's hand. The next second, the frying pan shattered.
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Now Yu Nian had a clingy slime living in his home. He told himself to put up with it a little longer. His life would be over soon enough anyway.
And so Yu Nian resigned himself to raising the monster. The low-grade creature patiently waited for the right moment to eat the mouthwatering Yu Nian. As it waited, the monster suddenly grew a human body.
Yu Nian had only just accepted having a blob of slime at home. In the blink of an eye, the slime had turned into a naked man.
Yu Nian stared thoughtfully at the low-grade monster's unmentionable parts. "Slimes... have those too?"
The low-grade monster excitedly swayed from side to side. It seemed to have found another way to enjoy its delicious meal besides eating him.
Little scene:
The low-grade monster had only just taken human form and still wasn't very good at speaking. He stammered, "Yu Nian, did you, give me, a name?"
Yu Nian replied expressionlessly, "Your name is UMA."
The monster tilted its head in confusion. "U... what?"
"Never mind. I was joking."
Yu Nian thought carefully, but couldn't come up with a name. Instead, he remembered his red bean bun.
"Since you like bread so much, I'll call you Bread."
(UMA: Unidentified Mysterious Animal
Bread: bread)
Premise: Hard work brings prosperity
