How Long Does It Take to Tame the Dark Moonlight?

[My next novel is The Crown Prince Ascends the Throne Today. The blurb is at the bottom. Feel free to take a look if you’re interested ^3^]

Blurb:

1. Shen Qi has two secrets no one knows.

First, he has a bit part in an ABO novel about humans and beastfolk living side by side, and he plays every single cannon-fodder character.

He is the researcher at the Beastfolk Research Institute who studies the beastfolk protagonist, disregards life, and uses cruel methods.

He is also President Shen, who relies on his billions to get close to the beastfolk protagonist, takes him in, and keeps him as a plaything for his amusement.

A hypocritical villain like Shen Qi has only one possible ending: dying at the protagonist’s hands and becoming a rag used to polish the protagonist’s halo.

Second, Shen Qi has awakened to the truth. He no longer wants to be a dutiful cannon-fodder character.

After all, once the beastfolk protagonist leads his people to win rights from humanity, the first person he kills is Shen Qi.

And Shen Qi alone knows that the beastfolk protagonist, who shines so brightly in everyone else’s eyes, is a sinister, twisted obsession, a dark moonlight.

He holds grudges and bites everyone he sees.

2. After awakening, Shen Qi quits his job at the institute, returns to his identity as President Shen, and stops keeping animals.

He thinks this will ensure he never crosses paths with the beastfolk protagonist again, and can live out the rest of his life in peace.

Until one day, on a whim, Shen Qi picks up a black cat with a foul temper.

The cat is vicious and bites everyone it sees. After being forced to get five rabies shots, President Shen swears he’ll tame this unruly black cat.

Feather wands, catnip, toy mice: none of them work. The cat seems to have a weakness only for Shen Qi’s blood.

Speechless, Shen Qi opens Baidu on his phone to search for ways to care for stray cats, and suddenly sees a news alert: “The research institute’s only black serval Alpha has escaped.”

He enlarges the picture. Why does it look so much like his cat?

Shen Qi looks up and sees the black cat, now in human form, standing behind him completely naked and looking down at him with contempt.

This is bad. He’s picked up the beastfolk protagonist again: Qin Youbai, a black serval Alpha.

3. No matter where Shen Qi runs, Qin Youbai always tracks him down by scent, haunting him like a vengeful ghost.

“Get lost.”

Furious, Shen Qi shoves away the man stubbornly biting his neck and curses, “I’m a beta, for fuck’s sake.”

“Three doses of pheromones a day. You’ll smell like me whenever you go out. Let’s see who dares come near you then.”

Qin Youbai licks the traces of blood from his canine tooth and stares darkly at Shen Qi’s swollen, bleeding nape. If he can’t mark him, then he’ll make sure Shen Qi can’t leave the house.

Shen Qi rolls his eyes. Three times a day, with generous portions, huh?

Couple:

A cunning, wicked beauty of a bottom

x

A dark, twisted top who just won’t leave him alone

Next novel:

1. On the day Lan Xia is named Crown Prince, his mortal enemy He Zeli suddenly returns to court. He Zeli took the enemy’s high ground in three days, captured a city in five, and annexed the Northern Federation in thirteen.

It’s no exaggeration to say Lan Xia sincerely acknowledges his rival’s abilities.

But He Zeli has never gotten along with him, and he’s the emperor’s adopted son and one of the heirs. There’s no way he’s hurried back to congratulate Lan Xia.

Lan Xia, his sash still untidied across his chest, watches the old emperor go to welcome the returning hero. Suddenly, a sense of danger flares in him as if he’s just woken up.

He Zeli is trying to steal the throne from him!

Lan Xia pretends to look up nonchalantly and gazes imperiously at the protagonist, surrounded by his retinue.

He Zeli wears his signature practically permanent smile. The way his eyes narrow strikes Lan Xia as “provocation.”

After all, Lan Xia and He Zeli are the only ones in the entire empire who haven’t yet undergone their secondary gender differentiation, and He Zeli is far more popular with the people.

Lan Xia tugs at the corner of his mouth and swears he’ll become an Alpha before He Zeli does, protecting his claim to the throne.

Later, he does differentiate as an Alpha: a noble serpent eagle, the purest bloodline in the royal family.

But it happens on He Zeli’s broad bed, just as Lan Xia is about to make his move...

That’s not the only humiliating thing. He discovers that He Zeli is actually an ordinary beta.

How can he, an Alpha and the empire’s Crown Prince, be left gasping for breath by a beta?

2. Lan Xia spends three whole days bedridden at He Zeli’s residence before returning to the palace in a fury.

He endures the discomfort and thinks, as expected, this guy is trying to make him die young.

But he still has one more plan: marry He Zeli.

He can’t give up the throne, but he can give up the Crown Princess position.

He never intended to go through with it. He only wanted to warn He Zeli.

But the old emperor issues the decree immediately, and He Zeli kneels at Lan Xia’s feet and kisses his ring without the slightest hesitation.

From beginning to end, it takes less than a day.

Lan Xia sees He Zeli, who is decisive and ruthless on the battlefield and used to ignore him, looking at him with tenderness. He’s so horrified he nearly faints.

He’s been played.

He Zeli doesn’t just want to inherit the throne. He wants to inherit Lan Xia, too.

Couple: Mischievous, haughty serpent eagle Alpha bottom x Scheming bald eagle beta top

Reader’s guide:

1. One-on-one romance, happy ending.

2. Hard-luck beta with many jobs x sinister, devoted Alpha. Human x beastfolk.

3. Plotline: no. Romance: yes. Everything serves the story.

2025.1.17

Theme: Be positive and keep striving