The Dungeon Monsters' Mommy [Quick Transmigration]

A quick recommendation for my pen pal Yun Qi Yun Qi's new novel, Fries for the Seagull! It's a light, sweet little story. The blurb is below.

Novel Blurb

[Beautiful, gentle, resilient househusband shou x Cyberpunk ghost, scheming and devoted Boss gong]

At death's door after being gravely injured, Cen Yi unexpectedly binds himself to a life-for-points System. But after years of working himself to the bone, he's now covered in injuries and ready to call it quits.

A terrifying Boss? Just bring him home and keep him as a pet. Cen Yi can lie flat and do nothing.

The bed in the game world is soft, but Cen Yi just can't lie still.

At night, the “blanket” always wraps around him until he can hardly breathe. When he wakes, there are all kinds of mysterious marks on his body.

Cen Yi can't help thinking the Boss looks at him strangely. And why does the Boss's human form look so much like the short-lived, dearly departed crush he lost in the prime of his life...?

[World One: Little Octopus or Terrifying Evil God Boss]

Weak, pitiful, helpless, chubby Q/Q candy octopus x Gentle, all-capable mom of a general store

Cen Yi runs a small general store in a coastal town plagued by one disaster after another. To complete a System mission, he buys the young Boss at a fish stall. Instead of killing it, he takes it home.

Early the next morning, the little octopus is brought to the shop, where it crouches on a cardboard box and starts peeling pumpkins with its eight tentacles.

Good work earns it fragrant dried fish, a little duck toy that squeaks when squeezed, and... the right to sleep in Mom Cen Yi's arms.

Cen Yi: “Wait a second, is this still a wholesome game?”

The tiny octopus, its float bladder puffed up, says: “Not anymore~”

Before long, several identical-looking little ones hatch, and a haze gradually settles over the seemingly peaceful town.

As tsunamis and torrential rains arrive one after another, people realize that the being who has slept for years is slowly regaining its power.

[World Two: Evil Chubby Raven or Reaper by Night]

Raven with the original black-coal-ball skin x Raven with the rare white skin

In an apartment in the Lower City, where demons gather and crimes run rampant, Cen Yi is an elf wizard. His roommate is a handsome, mysterious raven with pitch-black feathers.

The big bird sneaks out every night and returns with blood on its hands and crimson eyes.

The wizard has powerful magic but a frail body, and doesn't dare provoke him. Cen Yi plans to keep his distance, but when he opens the door, he finds the Boss has stolen his cloak and is burying his face in it, sucking on it with rapturous devotion...

Later, the house is taken over by all kinds of black animals they've adopted.

Every day, Cen Yi lifts the covers to find them stuffed with coal-ball-like raven chicks, along with a certain BOSS who seems cold and aloof but is actually shameless beyond belief.

Cen Yi, busy raising the chicks: “There are too many. I can't possibly raise them all...”

He doesn't notice the white feathers growing beside his ears, or how he is gradually becoming someone else...

[World Three: A Fluffy Little Bat's Comforting Part-Time Job]

A genuinely gloomy ghost owl x A fluffy, tiny figurine-like white bat

Cen Yi is a white bat who works as a baby-sitter and part-time bartender in a vampire castle. During the day, he plays with the little ones, who squish him, knead him, and brush his fur. At night, he serves drunken adults at the bar.

Cen Yi's mission is to survive 30 days in the perilous castle.

But even though he's on his guard, he still manages to attract the most dangerous NPC in the game: the brutal and ruthless head of the vampire family.

He thinks he's done for, but then Cen Yi discovers that the head of the family is a fluffy owl in his true form, and a total furry fanatic!

When the head of the family takes his true form, he doesn't kill Cen Yi. Instead, he spends all day snuggled up with him. Two fluffy creatures cuddle together, oblivious to the world...

(Chi Yan, stubbornly denying it: Can't help it. I can't pet myself, so I can only pet my wife.)

Later, the little bat is told that the drinks he makes each night can only be delivered to the master's room on the top floor. The bed in his own room gathers dust.

After that, several new little ones join the vampire nursery. Besides their sharp demon horns, they also have a pair of snowy white wings.

But by then, Cen Yi realizes that countless greedy, malicious eyes in the castle have fixed on him from the shadows...

[World Four: Toy Doll Factory]

Mechanical skeleton doll x Lop-eared rabbit chef doll

The seemingly delicate and beautiful little rabbit may look innocent, but the spatula in his apron pocket can strike an enemy's weak spot.

The rabbit doll Cen Yi lives in an abandoned toy factory divided between two factions. His daily task is to find enough cotton to stop himself from deflating.

To clear the game, Cen Yi must target the leader of the opposing faction. That should be simple enough, but one person's relentless pursuit turns what was supposed to be a medium-difficulty solo game into a high-difficulty, hellish two-player start.

Cen Yi: “My boyfriend keeps pulling my tail and holding me back. What should I do? Good thing he's handsome. I'll spoil him a little.”

Chi Yan, innocently: “What's this, a little rabbit? Let me take a sniff.”

The seemingly lighthearted toy factory hides an incredibly dark secret. And when the leader's mask is accidentally knocked off, the truth about the entire game comes to light.

Tips:

Mutual pining, doting on each other

Warm, silly, lighthearted sweet story. No angst in the romance, happy ending.

*The little octopus's menu: humans, large animals, dried fish, tomato soup, and lemon cake

A recommendation for my pen pal Yun Qi Yun Qi's new novel: Fries for the Seagull!

Fluffy little seagull shou x Gloomy rich student gong

After Shen Yuqing's financial support for studying abroad is cut off, he starves to the point of fainting in his rented room. As his consciousness fades, he swears that in his next life, he'll be a seagull.

Able to fly.

Able to dive and snatch tourists' fries.

Able to act outrageously, anytime and anywhere.

The next morning, he wakes up, stretches out his fluffy wings, and lets out a string of “caw caw caw caw.”

He really has become a seagull.

Yan Nuo is withdrawn and reclusive. His room is always sealed up, windows and doors shut tight. The one time he opens a window, he brings home a half-dead seagull.

He wants to set it free, but it's so skinny it clearly won't survive. He has no choice but to keep it for now.

The gull is clingy. When Yan Nuo plays video games, it stands on his shoulder and cries, “Ah, ah!”

When Yan Nuo does his homework, it looks at the screen full of red X's and sighs, “Sigh, sigh.”

When Yan Nuo takes a shower, the gull squeezes through the door and perches on his head, beak open to drink from the showerhead.

Yan Nuo carries it outside, but when he turns around, it's already back on his soap dish.

“Cawwwww!”

Yan Nuo can barely take care of himself, let alone a living creature. He lies on his bed, staring blankly. The doorbell rings, and a slender figure stands outside.

As a human-seagull with no survival skills, Shen Yuqing is starving and freezing when he collapses on the cold, wet street. When he opens his eyes again, he's in a luxury apartment in the city center. The gloomy rich guy who brought him home is an old acquaintance: Yan Nuo, the classmate who skips class every day.

Yan Nuo doesn't look well, but the moment he sees the gull wake up, he puts down his game and excitedly breaks off half a piece of gold-leaf-sprinkled fried chicken for him.

“Here, here, here! Want some?”

Shen Yuqing: “?”

He wants me to devour one of my own kind? Now that's interesting.

Shen Yuqing doesn't care about that sort of thing. After eating his fill, the gull climbs onto the rich guy's shoulder and mercilessly kicks him awake when he tries to sleep in and skip class yet again.

When he accidentally hears that the rich guy's family wants to hire a tutor for him because he fails every class, the gull perks up.

When Yan Nuo opens the door for his new tutor, he figures he can just have them do his homework and exams for him. This is just a cold, hard business transaction.

But when the tutor stands in front of him, Yan Nuo feels an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

The young tutor smiles, showing two little canine teeth, and chatters away while explaining the problems, full of life.

Yan Nuo thinks that maybe learning a little isn't completely unbearable after all.

Shen Yuqing discovers that his wish to the heavens has half come true: every day, he turns into a seagull for half a day.

But that's a good thing for him.

During the day, he works hard as a tutor. At night, the gull appears at Yan Nuo's window on time.

Winter turns to spring, sunlight streams into Yan Nuo's room, where the doors and windows used to stay shut, and Shen Yuqing turns into a fluffy, plump little gas canister.

Other gulls: “Hey, brother gull, want to come to the docks and grab some fries with us?”

Shen Yuqing: “No thanks, I'm going to the rich guy's place for some premium goods, ”

A recommendation for my pen pal Cilu's new novel, After Hongwu Emperor Became Qin Shi Huang's Son

After dying, Zhu Yuanzhang is reborn as the son of Ying Zheng, King of Qin.

He opens his eyes to find himself a beggar again. Though this prince, abandoned among the common folk, is not favored by the First Emperor, and people like Lao Ai and Zhao Gao are trying to seize power from him, Zhu Yuanzhang once herded cattle as a boy and still went on to unify the realm. So to him:

No big deal.

Isn't this a start fit for a chosen one?

*

He crushes Lao Ai, defeats the Xiongnu, unifies the realm, and keeps officials in line.

“Your Majesty! The Crown Prince wants to wipe out the entire Zhao Gao clan!”

“Your Majesty! The Crown Prince has arrested all the ministers who dared to remonstrate!”

The First Emperor smiles with satisfaction.

My son, you're just like me.

*

Zhu Baba (five-year-old genius)

Ying Zheng (satisfied): You have my potential!

Fusu (looking up to his big brother)

A recommendation for my pen pal Qiuyue Qiu Ri's new novel, Hades Took the Wrong Person [Greek Mythology]

Xia Mi wakes up one morning to find himself far from home in the wilderness. He's confused, the beasts think he smells delicious, and his life is in danger.

He runs for his life, but a chariot bursts out of a crack in the earth and carries him off.

The chariot's owner says Xia Mi is a dead soul, and by the rules, that makes them husband and husband.

Xia Mi has landed himself a bargain husband, Hades.

Married life is dull, especially since his husband is a cold-faced workaholic.

Xia Mi spends his free time planting flowers, tending the garden, and listening to gossip. Then he finds out the dead are disappearing in droves, and the ghosts are terrified.

His bargain husband says he's a special kind of dead soul, commonly known as “Tang Monk's meat.”

He can't even sleep in peace anymore.

To get a good night's sleep, Xia Mi takes his husband to beat the mastermind to a pulp.

That's what you get for lusting after my body!

Until his bargain husband wants to share a bed with him.

But he's straight?!

Xia Mi decides to run away.

Hades takes out a pomegranate and says he'll let Xia Mi go if he eats it.

Xia Mi eats it.

Hades pulls him into his arms.

“Sorry, I lied. I can't live without you.”

Hades asks the god of sleep to grant him a beautiful dream.

He and his lover, Xia Mi, will never be parted.

Theme: Death is not the end