Keep Close to the Heiress to Stay Alive

★ Please add my next novel, "My New Neighbor Flirts with Me Every Day," to your reading list. The blurb is at the bottom~

Tu Si is a dodder vine that has cultivated a human form. She must find a host as soon as possible, or she'll wither and die.

The first time she goes down the mountain, Tu Si meets the aloof third young miss of the Gong family. She unexpectedly discovers that she can only absorb life-sustaining nourishment from this woman.

Tu Si: "She's the one."

After Tu Si makes all sorts of overly enthusiastic attempts to "show her affection," Third Miss Gong folds her arms and gives her a sidelong look, speaking in a cool, lazy voice. "You don't seem very bright."

Tu Si beams like a sunflower. "I'm the smartest one on our mountain. Don't believe me? Ask me what one plus one is."

Third Miss Gong: "..."

As one of the heirs to the Gong family, Gong Sha Yu is wealthy and beautiful, and has enemies everywhere.

To protect her claim to the inheritance, she comes up with a plan: bring home a canary from outside and marry her.

She sets her sights on the rather airheaded Tu Si and signs a one-year contract marriage with her.

But after spending day and night together, she realizes there's something off about her silly wife:

When someone tries to plot against her, Tu Si bows and apologizes meekly, then suddenly springs into action and stabs the attacker to death.

When people mock her, Tu Si accepts their insults as if she can't tell whether they're praise or criticism, then humiliates them in some completely baffling way.

During a business crisis, Tu Si sneaks into a circle of wealthy wives and shyly brings back a project that saves the company from collapse.

And when night falls, she comes up with all sorts of ways to cuddle, cling to, and kiss her...

Until one unspeakable night, after getting her first taste of pleasure, Tu Si's head blooms with little yellow flowers. She wraps herself around Gong Sha Yu like a vine, her face flushed as she whispers hoarsely, "Sis, it's time to change our contract to a lifetime one."

A little scene:

One day, Gong Sha Yu returns from a business trip. The dodder vine throws her arms around her, thrilled, and winds a finger through her host's black hair. "Sis, I think I can finally tell the difference between Gong Sha Yu and a male shark!!!"

The woman pressed against a wall of roses gazes at her darkly. "Good. Tonight, Sis will teach you something new: the real way to cling to your host..."

Character setup: An aloof, fiercely protective heiress x a sweet, scatterbrained dodder vine with a hidden edge

Reader's guide:

1. Plant spirit x queen of the business world

2. Neither is entirely kind. Plant mimicry. She turns the rules of parasitism upside down for her.

3. The blurb doesn't tell the whole story. Plenty of reversals and face-slapping.

4. Both leads have flaws. They use each other at first, then they use each other in a different way.

Also promoting my upcoming novel, "My New Neighbor Flirts with Me Every Day," a lighthearted modern urban ABO story. Here's the blurb. If you're interested, please give it a star!

Su Qiao is a straight-laced woman who transmigrates into a yuri ABO novel. From the day she arrives, she has a high fever that won't go away.

Just before she passes out, she presses the neighbor's doorbell...

A new neighbor, Su Qiao, has moved in next door to Shen Lanqing. On the day she arrives, she stirs up the alphas throughout the building, sending their pheromones into a frenzy.

Shen Lanqing has SSS-rank pheromones. She's a doctor, and the closest alpha to Su Qiao, so she feels she ought to go warn her.

But when the door opens, she sees a top-tier omega lying on the floor, wearing a red slip dress, eyes hazy, skin so soft it looks as if a touch would leave a mark. She's in heat.

With their pheromones nearly a perfect match, Shen Lanqing enters her rut early, too.

The omega on the floor cluelessly invites her, "Sis, help me..."

Dr. Shen doesn't waste a word. She scoops her up and agrees to help.

Afterward, the omega glares at her furiously. "What's wrong with you? I had a fever and you went biting me!"

Dr. Shen: "Which one of us was doing the biting?!"

Later, Su Qiao "falls ill" again. This time she's learned her lesson and books an appointment with a famous specialist while her fever is still mild.

But when she arrives at the exam room, she finds Shen Lanqing in a white coat. "%!?#!?"

Dr. Shen: "Where does it hurt?"

Su Qiao steels herself. "A... a fever."

Dr. Shen gives her a suppressant as a matter of routine, but Su Qiao turns out to be allergic to it.

Su Qiao turns pleading eyes on Shen Lanqing. "Doctors are supposed to save lives..."

Dr. Shen has no choice but to put herself on the line and give her another temporary mark.

Afterward, Su Qiao once again accuses her with a perfectly straight face. "Quack! You can't even cure a fever!"

Shen Lanqing suddenly leans in, her fingertips brushing the damp gland at the back of Su Qiao's neck. In a husky voice, she asks, "Finish this course of treatment... and you won't keep getting fevers. Do you want that?"

Su Qiao can't help whimpering as she nods.

"Good girl. Look at the camera and say it," Shen Lanqing murmurs, taking Su Qiao's flushed earlobe into her mouth. "I do."

Soft as water during sex, fierce afterward on the bottom x domineering during sex, doting afterward on the top

First novel's blurb posted on March 14, 2025

Theme: Everything happens for a reason.