[Outgoing flirt x cold-faced cutie]
This world is full of filth. Hospitals where people die every day, foul-smelling sewers, beds where people have made love countless times... All of them might spawn something filthy. These things are called "Blights."
From mindless low-level Blights to high-level Blight Spirits capable of speech, ordinary people can't see or touch them, but they suffer varying degrees of mental contamination. Only Blight Exorcists can get rid of them.
Then one day, the Blight Management Bureau suddenly issued an emergency notice: "Attention, Blight Exorcists from all guilds. A corporeal high-level Blight Spirit has been spotted in the eastern part of Huchuan City..."
For some unknown reason, Blights around the world suddenly grew much stronger.
High-level Blight Spirits had become powerful enough to take physical form, making them visible to the naked eye. Some even took on human forms, hiding among people and waiting for a chance to strike. From that point on...
A world where humans and Blight Spirits coexist had arrived.
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After a mission, Ji Xuan found a low-level Blight on the road. It was a pitch-black lump, about the size of his palm, like a little ball of coal.
Ji Xuan was about to get rid of it without a second thought when the black lump seemed to sense something. Two round eyes suddenly popped out with a "whoosh," blinking up at him... It was so ugly.
But the longer he looked at it, the more he had to admit it was kind of cute.
Ji Xuan raised it like a toy.
Then one day, when he got home, his little monster was gone. A powerful Blight Spirit with black hair and pale skin was sitting in his room, lounging on his bed, watching his TV, and drinking the bubble tea from his fridge...
Ji Xuan leapt onto the bed, grabbed him tightly by the collar, the veins on the back of his hand bulging. His voice was dark as he asked, "Did you eat that ugly thing?"
Xie Jianran: "...An ugly thing?"
Before he could answer, a fist came at his handsome face with a rush of wind. The kid sitting on top of him looked furious, his brows tightly knit as he snarled, "I'll beat it out of you!"
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The first time Xie Jianran pinned Ji Xuan beneath him, Ji Xuan had never imagined that being mentally contaminated could feel so humiliating and shameful.
"Mm... Not there..." Ji Xuan was so uncomfortable that the corners of his eyes turned red and wet. He didn't even have the strength to curse. His body curled up, his sensitive consciousness trembling and floating. Something unknown and ambiguous toyed with every one of his nerves, while the air around them was heavy and damp.
His pupils lost focus. He tried hard to open his eyes, but soon something cold, sticky, and soft covered his thin, vulnerable eyelids again.
A nonhuman black monster leaned close to his ear, its lips horrifically stretched back to its ears, yet its voice was unbearably gentle. "Don't look..."
"It's ugly. It'll scare you."
An older flirt who seems skilled at seduction but blushes at the slightest touch x a beautiful kitten who looks cold and irritable, but sometimes catches people off guard with a bluntly honest remark.
A touch of horror | Monster-raising | A bittersweet romance | The couple solve mysteries and fight monsters together
* 1v1, gloomy old monster x cold-faced cutie kitten
* Xie Jianran x Ji Xuan, no switching
* Cover background image © Sanxiang
(Blurb captured on August 14, 2025. This is what I'm writing next.)
Theme: World peace
