How Did You Marry My Uncle?

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*The title is from the second male lead's perspective. (Preorder: Alien Species Taming Manual. See my author page.)

A powerful, morally upright man who becomes a brooding, anxious, possessive ghost of a man × an honest, hapless heroine who only wants to complete her mission but gets relentlessly haunted by the male lead

1.

Li Tangli is forever a minor character, a disposable extra in the story.

Before and after she transmigrates, she is humble and ordinary. She muddles through life just like the exhausted masses, no different from anyone else. So she does not deserve the love of a heaven-blessed prodigy, nor is she worthy of the dazzling romance enjoyed by the story's hero and heroine.

Could that really be true?

2.

When Gu Zhi first met her, he looked down on the woman who was fooling around with his nephew, disgusted by Li Tangli's gaudy makeup and terrible acting.

Later, on a rainy night, she was once again abandoned halfway by his nephew, whose moods changed without warning. She was dressed too lightly for the weather.

Gu Zhi drove over. In the headlights, he saw the girl's thin back trembling slightly in the rain. Her eyes were red as she looked at him, helpless and in pain. Again, as always.

He tried with all his might to avoid this immoral stirring of his heart, yet countless times he could not help thinking:

If Li Tangli only wants to climb the social ladder, why can't I be the one she climbs up to?

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Reader advisory:

1. The heroine is not a virgin, while the hero is. The heroine is ordinary in both appearance and personality, with no particular talents. She's simply an honest person.

2. When the hero and heroine become a couple, the second male lead and heroine have already broken up.

3. This is entirely a collection of my own questionable kinks: an honest heroine paired with a perverted hero. You can imagine what kind of story that entails. In the middle and later parts, the hero will think he's the other man, and his personality will gradually deteriorate. He will do some outrageous things, so please beware. If you can't accept that, please stop reading.

4. A short story. I'll write as much as I can, most likely under 200,000 characters.

Coming next: Alien Species Taming Manual

A heartless nonhuman hero × a timid, honest heroine

1.

Cheng Moli is an older unmarried woman.

Introverted and unremarkable, she works as an office clerk at a small company.

At twenty-nine, pressured by her family, she impulsively married her current husband.

To be honest, her husband is handsome and generous with money. By any measure, an ordinary woman like her got lucky.

But Moli feels that her husband has become a little strange since they married.

His movements are mechanical and precise. His skin seems incapable of feeling pain, and his face is always expressionless in bed.

One night, she suddenly woke up and turned her head. Her husband was lying on his side behind her, staring straight at her with his eyes open.

He seemed unable to understand the fear in her eyes, mistaking her ragged breathing for a desire to make love.

His cold hand slipped inside her clothes. "Would you like to do it again?"

the man asked in a flat voice.

...Is her husband really human?

2.

Saines is the number-one director of the intelligence agency on the planet Tanluota.

In the power struggle over the tree core, it was defeated by its ambitious rivals.

As punishment, it was temporarily exiled to Earth, a planet below Level One civilization, to investigate Earth's intelligent life and reassess its civilization level.

It was bored. To ensure it could return home smoothly once its mission was complete, Saines disguised itself as a human man and married a wife as required.

"Wife" means partner. A partner has low social status and is not worth studying.

Yet Saines's work logs contain more and more descriptions of its "wife."

[Observation subject W026. Status changed to wife. Wife is physically fragile.]

[Wife is human, female, carbon-based life. Limbs are slender; oral organs are pink. Her body is soft, but must not be stretched, bent, or squeezed excessively. Do not apply more than six newtons of force.]

[Human sex is very boring. First attempt failed. The reproductive and excretory openings are close together, so I confused them. Wife was very angry. Wife does not like my expression.]

[Correction: tears do not necessarily mean pain.]

[Wife often requests sex. Addicted to sex.]

[Wife discovered my identity.]

[Wife said she wants to separate from me. I refused. An unknown new partner would affect the stability of the experiment and hinder the mission. I want her to cooperate. Wife resisted, so I revealed my true form to comfort her.]

[Used my original form for sex. Wife happily cried.]

[Another human male, M076, has fallen in love with my wife.]

[Wife does not need to go outside. I can feed and wash her.]

[Wife escaped. Why did you leave me, Moli?]

[M076 stole her. I found the biological residue left behind by that bastard.]

[Moli says she doesn't love me. I don't need love. I need Moli.]

Reader advisory:

1. My take on an honest heroine: a curvy, soft-bodied married woman. She's timid, but if she's really pushed too far, she'll go wild with red eyes. My kink is still bullying honest people. It's awful, but I can't help it. Sorry.

2. The hero is completely nonhuman, with unconventional sexual pleasure and no concept of love or morality. He's an alien species wearing human skin, with a strong sense of being an imitation person. His true form is neither humanoid nor a normal animal.

3. The details are still being worked out and may change when I start writing.

Theme: Love isn't idealizing the other person. It's making the other person your ideal.