Did My Husband Die Today?

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[Novel blurb]

Mo Jingmu was a simple, pure tomb guardian beast. His greatest ambition in life was to find a partner who would die young, so they could happily burrow into a tomb together.

Unfortunately, Mo Jingmu was a top-tier pretty-face enthusiast. He wouldn't take someone ugly, old, or short, and he didn't want a sickly, unhealthy partner either.

Just as he thought he would spend his life alone and become a poor soul with no tomb to sleep in, he met Xu Ruien.

Xu Ruien was tall and handsome, with skin as pale as paper and dark circles around his eyes. He was in his early twenties, and his physical exam showed he was perfectly healthy.

A handsome guy who was about to die!

The handsome guy paid him little attention, but fate kept bringing them together. He also kept buying expensive collectibles from the shop and giving them to Mo Jingmu.

When Xu Ruien held out a gemstone ring, perfect for a burial offering, and asked whether he wanted to try getting married first, Mo Jingmu was so excited that he picked out a burial plot that very night, ready to claim it as soon as his husband died.

After they married, his husband lived with him in a huge house that looked just like a tomb chamber, gave him more burial goods than he could count, and even held him close while sweetly saying, "I love you."

His husband was wonderful, and Mo Jingmu felt deeply troubled.

He still wanted a dead husband.

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Xu Ruien was a centuries-old bachelor vampire who considered himself incapable of falling in love and completely uninterested in sex.

That was until he met Mo Jingmu at a matchmaking event he found utterly tiresome.

The man looked cool and distant, but his gaze quickly swept over the young man's dimples, and the ears hidden in his hair turned bright red.

From then on, the diamond bachelor, struck by Cupid's arrow, showed up every day at Mo Jingmu's workplace pretending it was a coincidence. All he wanted was to see the black-haired boy clutching gold and silver treasures with shining eyes and say, "You're so nice, big brother."

His persistence paid off. Xu Ruien successfully coaxed him into registering their marriage, then hid his coffin so he wouldn't scare his wife away.

Finally, one late night, Xu Ruien brought out his coffin and lay inside ahead of time, ready to tell Mo Jingmu the truth and turn him into an immortal vampire.

His usually slow-moving human wife pounced on him and struggled to shut the coffin lid.

A cheerful voice rang out from outside the coffin: "My husband finally died!"

The "dead" husband: "?"

Bonus scene:

Mo Jingmu knew only that he himself was hard as a rock. Who would have thought that when he slept beside Xu Ruien, he would feel something else hard as a rock?

Worried he might have turned his husband into stone, he lifted the covers to take a look and even felt it with his hand.

When he looked up, Xu Ruien's temple was throbbing, and his eyes looked as if he wanted to devour him.

Mo Jingmu thought that if humans ate stones, they would die.

The next morning, Mo Jingmu rubbed his sore waist and took a look, horrified. Why hadn't his husband died yet?

[Reading notes]

1. "Getting married to become a widow": an adorable, money-loving bottom × "Love at first sight, pretending to be aloof": an innocent, rich top.

1. A sweet 1v1 romance with both leads devoted only to each other. Handsome top, cute bottom.

2. At first, both of them think the other is human.

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Yang Xiaodou was a country lamb who had worked diligently to cultivate a human form. Carrying his whole village's dream of "building roads in the mountains," he marched into the city to find work with great determination.

But he had no ID card, so most employers turned him away.

Unable to find a job, Yang Xiaodou had no choice but to run errands for great demons. He could be eaten at any moment, and his pay was pitifully low.

Then one day, in the territory of the four-horned sheep demon Tuliu, who loved to tease him, he found a human covered in blood.

As an undocumented person, Yang Xiaodou was afraid that witnessing a dead body would get him dragged to the police station, so he hurriedly dumped the man at the hospital entrance.

He thought he had gotten away with it without anyone noticing. But a week later, the man showed up at his door with a stack of contracts Yang Xiaodou couldn't understand, telling him he could ask for whatever he wanted.

Yang Xiaodou gazed at the man's stern, refined, otherworldly face, picked at a hole in his clothes, and spoke softly:

"Three thousand a month, and I want an ID card."

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Zhou Jiming was a talented young man, immensely wealthy, and occasionally a helpful demon hunter. His life had always gone smoothly, until he was caught off guard while hunting Tuliu, a man-eating sheep demon.

As he hovered near death, a boy with round eyes and a round face saved him, mumbling that he shouldn't be afraid.

So cute.

Grateful for the boy's kindness, Zhou Jiming tracked him down and immediately married him, offering himself in return.

But married life wasn't as sweet as he had imagined.

His wife was away from home every other day, and Zhou Jiming, who had finally found a wife after thirty years as a bachelor, missed him so much it made him ill.

At noon, Zhou Jiming went to a fancy restaurant with a client to discuss business and thought a waiter in a tailcoat looked like his wife. In the afternoon, he escorted a lost little demon back to a tour group visiting from the countryside, and thought the tour guide with a bee-shaped badge looked like his wife. In the evening, he took his four-year-old niece to a pet club... and even the lambs there looked like his wife.

After successfully dealing with Tuliu, Zhou Jiming was carrying the sheep's head home when he happened to run into Yang Xiaodou on the street. Yang Xiaodou was wearing a name badge that said "Manager."

The human wife Zhou Jiming usually spoke to so gently was getting chewed out by a little demon, but instead of getting angry, he just grinned foolishly.

Then, when he saw Zhou Jiming, he screamed and turned to run.

At the end of a damp, dark alley, his little wife was trembling with his hands over his head, tear tracks on his face. When Zhou Jiming came closer, he hurriedly covered his butt, too.

Only then did Zhou Jiming see clearly:

His wife had two little pointed horns and a short, perky tail.

He was a soft, fluffy little lamb.

Bonus scene:

After learning Yang Xiaodou's true identity, Zhou Jiming tried every day to coax him into showing his horns and tail.

Yang Xiaodou thought about what would happen afterward, and his tail felt sore. He refused no matter what Zhou Jiming said.

Zhou Jiming brought out a road-building contract.

Yang Xiaodou: "0.o"

Zhou Jiming said casually, "I also built a school."

Yang Xiaodou's tail twitched.

Zhou Jiming added, "And introduced new technology to help with farming."

Yang Xiaodou quickly shoved his tail into Zhou Jiming's hand. "Honey, dig another little river for us, too."

*A silly little lamb who only cares about building roads × a hopeless romantic who looks fierce. 1v1, both physically and emotionally devoted only to each other.

Theme: Kindred souls will eventually find one another amid the vast sea of humanity.