The Poorest in the Galaxy, Yet I Somehow Became a God

Hua Xiaowan was a certified poor person on Xiya Star.

When an old woman from the slums found her, she was clutching a broken rice bowl and wrapped in a tattered blanket.

The people of the slums sighed that she was born to beg.

Hua Xiaowan lived up to their expectations, growing up skilled at begging and scavenging.

One day, Hua Xiaowan brought home a housekeeping robot she'd found.

He had a handsome face, and his proportions and muscle definition were perfect.

She washed and handled him as she pleased, until she tried to pull off the last scrap covering his lower body.

He grabbed it and held on tight.

Hua Xiaowan wondered to herself: Could the old woman really have been right? He was so handsome, he had to be a partner robot.

Was his resistance just some mode he'd triggered? How was she supposed to make him let go?

Slap him and tell him, "If you won't do it, there are plenty of other robots who will"?

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But as time went on, Hua Xiaowan increasingly felt that something was strange about her robot.

He would suddenly sigh, "Why am I still not dead?"

He seemed to have his eye on her bowl, and would lunge at it like a madman until she knocked him unconscious.

Hua Xiaowan kept ordering the robot around until she discovered he was a ruthless man who could rip out someone's heart with his bare hands.

Him: I'm human. My name is Qin Xiaozhi. Let's make a deal.

Hua Xiaowan: You can have the bowl.

Him: I don't want the bowl anymore.

Hua Xiaowan: Then what do you want?

The man smiled beautifully and pointed at Hua Xiaowan.

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He said he ruled countless star systems and was a cosmic overlord. He could grant her endless wealth and send her handsome male slaves, on the condition that she get him off this planet.

To afford their passage, they got married to scam the marriage subsidy. Aside from the time he went on a killing spree, Qin Xiaozhi was always gentle and devoted to the home. That is, until the night before they were supposed to leave Xiya Star...

Qin Xiaozhi: How about we spend the rest of our lives here on Xiya Star?

Hua Xiaowan: Wasn't leaving the plan?

Qin Xiaozhi's gaze turned cold. "Fine. Great."

Seeing Hua Xiaowan take a frightened step back, he hid the chill in his eyes, patted the bed, and said softly, "Xiaowan, it's late. Time for bed."

Qin Xiaozhi could accept that she had once ordered him around. He even liked how she'd taken him for all he was worth after they married, and could accept that she was after his money. But then she said she didn't love him?

Didn't love him? Was it because he wasn't gentle enough? Or because he was too easy to get? It didn't matter. He could change.

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Honest, sweet, pretty beggar girl vs. the universe's overlord, who crawls through darkness for love. HE, SC, interstellar cultivation setting

Heroine's golden finger: her rice bowl. Heroine's skill: "Spare some change?"

The heroine whispers, "So, am I going to become the God of Poverty?"

Author: No, the poor are usually called ghosts.

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After My Confession to My Crush Failed, He Became a Zombie

[Do you like me? I like you. Do you like me?]

[Sorry, I like someone else.]

Wen Zhishao's secret crush on the campus heartthrob Song Yiyan ended with two short messages.

Ugh, I'm so bummed. I'll go to the rooftop and enjoy the warm summer-night breeze.

But when Wen Zhishao climbed up to the roof, she saw a crowd gathering below.

Wen Zhishao waved her arms and yelled down at them, "I'm just getting some air! I'm not about to jump! You can all go!"

But the crowd kept growing.

I'd better go down, or I'll really end up in the school paper tomorrow.

"Don't come down..." A faint voice came from below.

Wen Zhishao looked closely. Wasn't that Song Yiyan, the very person who had just rejected her?

And the people behind him moved stiffly, some with missing limbs. They looked just like a horde of zombies.

Song Yiyan sprinted toward her. Before the zombies broke through the building's outer wall, he used his body to hold shut the half-open door.

He didn't like her, yet he risked his life to shield her from the zombie horde?

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After the great disaster, there were two kinds of people in Earth's safe zones: those who had not turned into zombies, and semi-zombies who retained their humanity after zombification. The latter could take medication to maintain a normal human appearance.

Discrimination against semi-zombies was forbidden in the safe zones. But they still faced a difficult life, even though most of them took on dangerous work guarding the city and fighting zombies outside.

One day, a new neighbor moved in next door to Wen Zhishao. Even while working overtime in the lab to develop new medicine, Wen Zhishao heard plenty of rumors about him.

She heard he was handsome, cheerful, and refined. The residents guessed he might be a professor at a nearby university.

One night, Wen Zhishao came home from working late and found her new neighbor collapsed outside the next-door courtyard.

What kind of professor gets hurt like this? Wen Zhishao went over to help him up. Wasn't this her old crush, Song Yiyan?

He had once turned down her confession, yet risked his life to save her. And she had done the decent thing back then, too, dragging him all the way from the battlefield to the safe zone on a stretcher.

It was just that after he turned into a zombie, he tried to bite her several times, so Wen Zhishao had spent the whole way keeping his mouth blocked with a stick.

That night, when she saw that familiar face, she instinctively picked up a stick from the courtyard and shoved it into his mouth.

In the darkness, he opened his eyes. Unlike the low-intelligence zombie who had done nothing but thrash around before, he reached up, removed the stick from his mouth, and asked, "Who are you?"

[Reading Guide]

1. The male lead is a half-zombie, battle-hardened soldier, violent but absolutely gentle with the heroine. The heroine is a high-IQ, low-EQ, adorably clueless military doctor.

2. Mutual pining comes true, HE, SC

Theme: Love and peace