Living with My Mortal Enemy After the Apocalypse

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[Coming soon: Married to a Restricted Robot. Please add it to your favorites. The blurb is at the bottom.]

A gloomy, obsessive younger woman who pretends to be sunny x a seductive, sly older woman

When disaster strikes and the city grinds to a halt, Shi Qingwan is forced to stay at her boss's home.

As luck would have it, her boss is Wan Siyun, her school senior and sworn rival.

Wan Siyun keeps turning up in outfits in the same colors as hers, at the same events, listening to songs she likes and watching movies she has just mentioned.

Even the guys who are interested in Shi Qingwan soon turn around and start fawning over Wan Siyun.

Only when rumors start circulating does Shi Qingwan finally realize she has been interpreting all Wan Siyun's behavior as female rivalry.

What an intense competitive streak. It is too much for her, so from then on she gives Wan Siyun a wide berth.

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But she never expected Wan Siyun to become her boss. Once again, all eyes turned to Wan Siyun. After basking in a chorus of praise and admiring looks, Wan Siyun smiled at Shi Qingwan and left, perfectly satisfied.

Shi Qingwan couldn't understand why Wan Siyun was always picking on her. Before she could figure out how to deal with it, she was forced to live with her nemesis.

Then the weather grew increasingly strange, and the two had no choice but to start stockpiling supplies and preparing to survive.

One night, frantic knocking at the door reached their ears.

"Still thinking it over? Don't you hate me? Push me outside, and you'll survive."

In the darkness of a power outage, Wan Siyun suddenly pinned Shi Qingwan's hands and pressed her against the wall.

"You think I've been competing with you all this time?" Her breath warmed Shi Qingwan's trembling lashes. "Shi Qingwan, if I really wanted to beat you..."

"You'd have been crying and admitting defeat by now."

What? Her sworn enemy actually likes her?

Blurb for the new novel

Beautiful, brilliant, and tragic programmer x all-knowing, all-capable android

On her twenty-sixth birthday, Cen Xuran received a gift from her parents, who had been dead for ten years.

An R-class robot.

The robot's first words after activation were:

"Cen Xuran, please marry me."

"???"

What a joke. Marry an intelligent robot?

The robot wasn't upset by her rejection. It ran its program and proposed something more constructive.

"Then let's have sex. Sexual activity can raise your oxytocin levels by 280% and lower your cortisol by 41%. Staying in contact for more than eight hours increases the chance of building interpersonal affection by 63%. Then you'll fall for me, and we can get married."

"???"

"My database has a wealth of learning resources. I guarantee you'll enjoy yourself."

"Get lost!"

-

"Request number 583. Are you really sure?"

"I'm sure."

Cen Xuran suspected there was a bug in Luoshu's programming. How could a service robot have such strong desires? She needed to fix its system.

Luoshu looked at her pitifully.

"If I can't marry Xuran and earn her love, I'll die."

"You're not human. You can't die," Cen Xuran replied coldly.

She didn't notice Luoshu's crestfallen expression at all.

-

"So, Xuran, are you going to kill me?"

"I'm only rebooting the program."

"Rebooting means wiping my memory. I won't know you anymore, and anyone will be able to use me. Xuran, are you really going to do this?" The robot lay motionless on the operating table, gazing quietly at her.

"Cen Xuran, I love you."

Cen Xuran said nothing. She seemed to understand what Luoshu meant, and Luoshu stopped looking at her.

"Rule one: Never disobey your owner's commands."

Cen Xuran closed her eyes and pressed the button.

-

Later, when she saw Luoshu by someone else's side, being used by someone else, Cen Xuran could no longer hold back.

She tried to pull Luoshu away, but Luoshu only looked at her coldly. "Hello, customer. Please let go of me. I am not your service robot."

She dragged Luoshu back to the room and pushed her onto the bed. "Didn't you say you loved me?"

"Now do it, just like you said you would!"

Theme: Supporting each other and growing together.