Not Human, but Loved by All

* Contains potentially disturbing scenes * Mild body horror * The heroine has 17 mm, nearly full-iris eyes *

Shen Shan was a pitiful orphan with a pair of enormous black eyes considered ill-omened. She had been imprisoned in a small village for eight whole years.

Then one day, a smiling male ghost said he wanted to take care of her.

Shen Shan didn't mind. She just wanted a meal to eat.

But the ghost was utterly serious.

He made clothes for her, coaxed her into eating every day, and taught her to read. He took her by horse-drawn carriage to experience every new thing.

He accepted her.

Later, she finally left the village, shedding its filth and revealing the brilliance a precious pearl should have had all along.

No one was afraid of her eyes. Instead, they were captivated by them.

She had almost no trouble winning everyone's attention and affection.

Some spoke to her softly, some blushed and invited her on outings, and some let her have whatever she wanted, indulging her in everything.

It turned out the little village had been too isolated and backward.

So she happily dated one person after another and embraced one after another.

But the ghost grew more and more strange. He had found those friends for her, yet he cruelly killed one of them.

He insisted on taking her away.

Shen Shan felt that he was a stranger to her.

So she eloped with one of the men who had been pursuing her.

When they met again, he had given up his ghostly form to become human, while she had become a god: her body towered like a mountain, and he was smaller than her little finger.

The Diyi tree encircled her body, weaving itself into a skirt; ancient golden runes flowed around her like living things.

She tied him up with a strand of her hair and imprisoned him in her palm.

Beneath her fingertip, his face flushed red, his gaze hazy.

"You like this too? Is this what you wanted?" Shen Shan squeezed his burning body hard.

"Yes..." he panted, affectionately rubbing his cheek against the edge of her finger. "I'll like anything you give me..."

1. All male leads are sexually inexperienced. Nonhuman plotlines. A big family ending, one heroine with multiple partners.

2. The purely nonhuman male leads take on human forms and borrow social identities.

3. The ghost has no gender (the story's ghosts differ from the usual understanding of ghosts). Since this is a romance, he has to be identified as male, so he is a male ghost (his gender identity is male).

4. The male characters are not related by blood or family ties to one another or to the heroine. "Granduncle" is simply the heroine's specific way of addressing one of the male leads.

6. Happy ending.

Theme: Self-redemption and striving tirelessly