My Secret Crush Keeps Pressuring Me to Go on Blind Dates

Jian Zilian, a matchmaking fairy in the service of the Old Man Under the Moon, was originally a tabby cat. Her matchmaking skills were terrible, so she was punished by being sent down to the mortal realm to find a partner for Du Shen, a confirmed bachelor. If she failed, she'd lose her place in the celestial ranks.

Jian Zilian didn't take her assignment seriously at all. She started by firing tens of thousands of red threads at Du Shen, turning him into a human pincushion.

Even Cupid would have to praise her for knowing how to borrow arrows so well.

She waited nonchalantly for the bachelor to find a partner, but the wait stretched on indefinitely.

Jian Zilian flew into a rage. "...I think you must have a heartless sword. Heartless and shameless!"

Unable to return to Heaven, Jian Zilian had no choice but to take matters into her own hands and arrange blind dates for Du Shen, racking her brains every day to find him a partner.

Afraid he'd just go through the motions, she'd introduce him to a woman, then transform into a cat and sneak after them to play matchmaker.

To make the women on his dates look prettier, she used magic to light up their faces, almost blinding Du Shen. To make the pair share a loving embrace, she kicked him flying with one paw and fractured his leg...

Du Shen: "..." Ever since I met you, my life has been one disaster after another.

As she kept setting up dates, Jian Zilian was shocked to realize that somehow this bachelor had fallen into her own hands. Would the celestial world accuse her of lining her own pockets?

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Before meeting Jian Zilian, Du Shen led a carefree life, holding a cat in one hand and counting money with the other.

After meeting her, every day was chaos, full of sudden disasters and brushes with death.

His schedule was packed with blind dates he hadn't asked for. Even with a broken leg, he could still go on a video date. It was almost as if she'd arrange a date on the spot even while he was in the bathroom.

When he was injured, Jian Zilian said she'd take care of him. But when mealtime came, she showed up with a bowl of cat food.

She was really taking advantage of him while he was down!

Even stranger, every time a blind date fell through, a tabby cat would come flying out of nowhere and claw him mercilessly.

What she never knew was that ever since their eyes met in a crowd, he had never been able to see anyone else.

Reader's guide:

1. This is a slow burn, with a gradual, drawn-out romance.

2. The heroine flirts without realizing it, but once she catches on, she's very direct.

3. The hero is a shameless hypocrite. Before he even understands his own feelings, he's already acting like a devoted puppy.

4. One-on-one romance. The hero turns all his blind dates into clients; there's no flirting with anyone else.

Coming up next: I Heard My Roommate Has the Hots for Me

Blurb:

The best deal Li Ximeng ever got was buying a fully furnished, 300-square-meter lake-view home outright for 600,000 yuan.

But less than a week after moving in, she was confronted by the actual owner, Wen Xi. Turns out, the sky only drops traps, not pies.

The power of attorney for the sale had been forged by Wen Xi's scumbag father, who had already run off with the money. Li Ximeng felt like the sky had fallen in.

Wen Xi had been away on a business trip for less than a month. When he returned home late one night, he found the place looking as if it had been ransacked. He meant to politely ask the woman to leave once he understood what had happened, but then he suddenly heard her thoughts.

[Help! I've poured all my savings into this, and now I have only 200 yuan left. What am I supposed to do in the middle of the night?]

Seeing her pale face and panicked expression, Wen Xi suddenly felt sorry for her and blurted out, "It's too late to find somewhere else to stay. If you don't mind, you can stay here for now."

Li Ximeng pressed her lips together and fell silent for a moment, while screaming internally:

[What? Live under the same roof as a strange man? Am I trying to get myself killed? But...he's so handsome. He doesn't look like a bad guy, does he?]

[Wow, those shoulders, that chest...and what he's wearing is so hot. Uh...guys like him should be more careful when they go out, shouldn't they? Heh heh heh...]

Wen Xi: "..."

And so, Li Ximeng reluctantly took him up on his offer.

To confirm that the thoughts he heard weren't a hallucination, Wen Xi tried doing what Li Ximeng thought about.

On the first day they lived together, Wen Xi cleaned the room until it was spotless.

On the second day, Wen Xi made the breakfast Li Ximeng had been craving the night before.

On the third day, Wen Xi brought home all the packages she'd piled up at the Cainiao parcel station.

On the fourth day...

Li Ximeng: [What trap? This is obviously a gift from heaven, my very own magical snail boy! Thank you, fate!]

Before long, Wen Xi had unknowingly become a perfectly trained magical snail boy, gradually losing himself in Li Ximeng's heartfelt praise.

Life was so comfortable that Li Ximeng, a web-fiction author, found herself brimming with inspiration. She decided to lightly embellish and adapt her daily life with Wen Xi into a clichéd, suggestive romance, and out of laziness even named the male lead Wen Xiaoxi.

Every night, Wen Xi was kept awake by Li Ximeng's steamy little fantasies. At first, he was too embarrassed to call her out on her little schemes, but eventually he started getting hooked.

Then, as he listened, the story suddenly took a 180-degree turn.

Out of nowhere, a cocky young guy pinned someone against the wall and tempted her with a grin. "Sis, want to feel my abs?"

Wen Xi couldn't take it anymore. He rushed next door, pulled Li Ximeng up from her chair, leaned down by her ear, and gritted out, "So you like the bad-boy type, huh? You should've said so. Then I wouldn't have had to work so hard pretending."

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