My Roommate Uses Mind Reading to Pretend to Be a Wish-Granting Spirit

A bright, sweet girl x a brooding, calculating mind reader

When Wen Xi returns from a business trip, he discovers a woman has moved into his home. After an exhausting conversation in which they completely talk past each other, he gets electrocuted by her and awakens to the ability to read minds.

To test whether his new ability is real, he decides to act on what she thinks.

On the first day of their forced cohabitation, Wen Xi cleans the house until it shines.

On the second day, he makes the breakfast she's been desperately craving before bed.

On the third day, he brings home all the packages she's let pile up at the parcel station.

On the fourth day...

Without realizing it, he's been trained by her inner thoughts into a perfect little domestic helper.

The woman: [Thank you, fate, for this wonderful gift!]

Li Ximeng sold everything she had to buy her dream home, only to fall victim to a scam. On the night she moves in, a tall, long-legged man barges into the house: the original owner.

With nowhere else to go, Li Ximeng refuses to leave. She'd already braced herself for a rough time, but somehow she ends up living the good life.

Li Ximeng, a web-fiction author, simply embellishes their daily life and turns it into a sweet, steamy romance.

Every night, Wen Xi can't sleep because of Li Ximeng's vividly suggestive little fantasies. At first, he's too embarrassed to call her out on her little scheme, but before long, she's got him hooked and loving every minute of it.

Then, as he's listening, the story suddenly takes a 180-degree turn.

A puppyish young man appears out of nowhere, pins her against the wall, and says with a flirtatious smile, "Sis, want to feel my abs?"

Wen Xi can't take it anymore. He rushes next door, grabs Li Ximeng from her chair, leans down to her ear, and grits out, "So you like puppyish younger guys, huh? You should've said so. Then I wouldn't have had to work so hard pretending."

Mini-scene:

One day, Wen Xi wears an apron and cooks for her.

Li Ximeng: [Well, he's quite the homemaker.]

Wen Xi pauses slightly as he chops vegetables, then turns and opens the freezer.

Li Ximeng: [That butt is so perky.]

Wen Xi: ...

That night, Li Ximeng dreams that Wen Xi has dyed his hair white and is wearing nothing but an apron, his firm, defined chest on display as he kneels at her feet.

Li Ximeng: O.O

Wen Xi holds the property deed in both hands and says reverently, "From now on, you are the owner of this house, and also my ma... cough, cough, cough!"

Li Ximeng wakes to find Wen Xi standing not far away, looking strange and coughing uncontrollably.

The blurb for my next book, "Yellow Weasel, Behave Yourself," is at the end.

Reading guide:

1. At first, they're at odds, with an undercurrent of flirtation. Later, there are tons of sweet moments. The romance is a little slow to start, but it develops naturally as they spend time together.

2. Both are romantically inexperienced. The female lead is all talk and no action, the type to start a fire and leave someone else to put it out. They are each other's ideal type.

3. The male lead has a double standard. He doesn't like talking to other people, but he can't stop talking to the female lead, and is always cracking jokes and flirting on the sly.

Up next: "Yellow Weasel, Behave Yourself." Please add it to your favorites if you're interested.

Huang Xiaoqian is the most spiritually gifted weasel on Fruit and Vegetable Mountain. She has two lifelong ambitions: first, to become a nationally protected animal and live off the state; second, to gain a human form through a ritual blessing and open a zoo to support everyone on the mountain.

To that end, she reads everything she can, travels far and wide, and watches short videos. Convinced that she understands human nature, she finally devises a brilliant plan:

Transform into a mermaid, lure a high-ranking official with her singing, then, while he's dazed, ask him, "Do I look like a beau..." (in a small voice), "...tiful..." (in a loud voice), "...fish?" (in an extremely tiny voice).

Fearless, Huang Xiaoqian packs two eggs for provisions and sets off alone for the ocean.

Unfortunately, she's still a weasel, with a weakness for handsome faces and a touch of face blindness. She mistakes a handsome man for a high-ranking official.

She sings "The Little Widow Visits the Grave" in Chinese, Korean, and English, but he remains unmoved.

Just as she's puzzling over why, the man grabs her by the scruff of her neck.

Huang Xiaoqian: "L-let me go!"

The handsome man smiles and slowly takes out the external processor for his cochlear implant.

"..." Damn! He's deaf!

In desperation, Huang Xiaoqian wags her tail and makes a heart sign to butter him up!

*

Qin Baiyan went out to sea to clear his head and ran into a mermaid. Are performances really this competitive now?

What is she babbling about? I want to kiss her.

Just as he is about to put on his cochlear implant processor, two fluffy little ears suddenly pop out on her head.

Qin Baiyan: "?"

He meant to pull her out of the water, but his hand slips and he grabs her by the scruff of her neck. He watches in disbelief as a tuft of white fur appears on her head and her beautiful mermaid tail turns into a wet, furry tail.

So she's a pretty little weasel!

According to folk legend, if someone plucks the tuft of white fur from a weasel's head while it is seeking a blessing to become human, it can only ever seek that blessing from that one person for the rest of its life.

Qin Baiyan silently reaches out...

Theme: Have the courage to climb out of a low point