Beware the Monsters Coveting You

[Anthology, each story has a different female lead, written in third person. Reading guide at the bottom]

1. [The Ghost Protecting You from Inside Your Necklace] (Complete)

You were forced to attend an all-girls boarding school, unaware that bullying ran rampant there. The students did whatever they pleased, while the teachers turned a blind eye.

You endured one cruel act after another, until one day, the amulet your grandmother had left you was damaged during a fight with the school bully, leaving a crack in it.

From then on, everything changed. One by one, the people who had bullied you got what was coming to them.

After who knows how long, you finally discovered that a ghost was hidden inside your amulet.

Later, you closed your eyes in fear, but the female ghost slowly floated up to you and gently kissed your forehead. "D-Don't be afraid..."

(Inspired by the Thai horror film Host)

2. [The Two-Headed Snake That Treats You Like a Pet] (Complete)

You are a researcher with an intense obsession with pythons, and your colleagues joke that you're a lunatic destined to marry one. In spring, you lead a team deep into the forest to track python behavior, only to be ambushed by cannibals. While fleeing, you get separated from your team, accidentally fall off a cliff, and pass out.

When you wake, everything before your eyes is blurry. You fumble around in the darkness and touch something long, cold, and slick.

“A p-python?” You shudder.

“Hiss, ” Something on your right wraps around your waist. You turn toward the sound, but another hiss comes from your left.

Something crawls across the ground in the dark, its movement making a rustling sound.

Temporarily blinded by your injuries, you don't yet realize that this is a restless, two-headed mutant python with two independently moving bodies and a shared tail.

When your vision returns, the python, having entered a special period, has split into two bodies and is blocking your way.

The older sister pins you down. “Where are you going?”

The younger sister tightly coils her tail around your ankle and drags you back. “You can't get away.”

(Human upper bodies, snake lower bodies. The two snake bodies can separate.)

3. [When Your Archrival Gets Trapped Inside Your Doll]

Your longtime archrival dies. You express your deepest condolences, then attend her funeral, overwhelmed with emotion.

When you get home, you hug and kiss your favorite doll, which you keep by your bed, telling it all about your past with your archrival. You even realize that you don't actually hate her...

Unbeknownst to you, after dying, your archrival's soul transmigrated into your doll. Day and night, she has to endure you groping her, and being forced to grope you in return.

Later, your archrival discovers that she can move. At the end of her tether, she turns the tables and gets the last word. “Try kissing me one more time! If you do, I'll kiss you back!”

(She can never return to life and will always have a doll's body, 1.2 meters tall. She can switch between doll bodies.)

4. [When All My Pets Turned Into Humans]

5. [Mermaids and Merfolk]: A mermaid wants to date, but ends up with a fierce, domineering merman.

6. [Insectoid]: A newly born queen insect dislikes male insects, but likes humans?

7. [Slime]: These sticky little things love clinging to their master!

8. [Predator]: If you can defeat me, I'll become your personal warrior!

9. [Robot]: In the apocalypse, during the war between humans and machines, they actually elope?

10. [Zombie]: A human is being raised by zombies...

11. [Parasite]: It covets your body and wants to claim your love, too.

12. [The Giant's Bride]: You may be tiny, but your wife is enormous.

13. [Snowman]: Lovers who can only meet each winter.

14. [Aliens Invading Earth]: Instead of invading Earth, why not fall in love with a human?

15. [The Human Who Covets an Immortal]: A devoted believer? No, a schemer who wants to drag you down to earth.

16. [The Offering Cast into the River]: A water spirit and a little girl.

17. [Harley Quinn]: The Harley Quinn of a parallel world decides to find herself a Supergirl.

18. [Haunted Doll]: The doll will stay by its master's side forever!

19. [She Is the Dragon]: The princess ultimately chooses to marry the evil dragon.

20. [Love in the Light]: A romance between Ultraman and a human (tentative).

21. [Supergirl]: Supergirl's redemption (superhero series)

[Reading Guide]:

1. The main story is written in third person. The blurb has been archived.

2. I'm a fan of suspense, horror, and monster movies, so this contains sanity-draining content.

3. Most of the nonhuman protagonists are gloomy and abnormal. They dote on each other, with no angst.

4. This will be an extremely long novel. I'm writing the kind of story I want to read.

5. If I get a new idea that seems more fun to write, it may jump the queue.

6. This is part of the same series as my other novel with the same title, a quick transmigration story. I wasn't very satisfied with how that one turned out, so I'm starting this one.

Theme: A positive attitude is the key to going far.