Mutation

Nan Meng owns a cat cafe and spends her days petting cats, living a comfortable and carefree life.

Then one day, while making cat food for the cats in her shop, Nan Meng dug an egg out of a fish's belly, and her life took a bizarre turn.

The egg soon hatched into an unknown creature, red in color, strange in appearance, and exceptionally beautiful. Nan Meng naturally took it in as a pet.

As her affection for the creature grew day by day, until she was hopelessly attached to it, she realized something was wrong. She tried abandoning it, killing it, and every other method she could think of, but the next day it would always turn up in a glass jar.

It wasn't until she met her partner, Qi Yin, that she finally managed to get rid of the creature.

At night, Qi Yin opened his crimson eyes and looked at his wife, lying unaware in the crook of his arm.

Mengmeng, my poor little thing, my wife. You'll never be able to leave me, not in this life or the next.

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The Special Anomaly Containment Bureau had been hunting the super-S-class anomaly codenamed "Yin" for a long time, but had never been able to pinpoint its location. Then, after detecting an energy fluctuation, they knocked on the door of a resident in an upscale apartment complex and saw it behind the resident.

At the time, "Yin" had taken human form and was holding the poor resident close like it was claiming its territory, its crimson eyes full of murderous intent.

Hello, the anomaly behind you is very dangerous... The words died on their lips. They scrambled away and prepared to draw up a new containment plan.

That night, a popular post appeared on the Special Anomaly Containment Bureau's internal forum.

#Urgent! The super-S-class anomaly I've been hunting seems to be dating a human#

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Here are some of the author's upcoming novels

① The Lamb Game [Infinite]

[Lost lamb, listen to the gods weep.

When the twelfth chime of the night rings out, the weeping god will point the way with a scepter.

Left is right, and wrong. Right is right, and wrong.

You have a fifty percent chance of surviving, and a fifty percent chance of losing your life.

Poor lamb, this is a game meant for you alone.

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Mo Wuhui is a weirdo. Ever since she could remember, she had carried a pitch-black coffin on her back. She had never touched it or opened it, but fortunately, no one else could see it.

Then, by chance, on a rainy, damp day, she came across a butterfly chrysalis being tossed about on a leaf by the rain, and was forced into one game after another.

In the game, she touched the coffin on her back for the first time and opened it for the first time. It was empty, with nothing inside but soft red lining.

Deep within her, a bone-deep desire began to grow: to fill the coffin.

② I Can't Raise a Wife, So I'll Do It Myself

Lu Shang transmigrated into a book: a melodramatic novel full of substitutes, revenge, and all the usual angst, which she had stayed up all night reading. She became a disposable concubine whom the male lead brought into his manor to appease his colleagues, before the story even began.

She had no interest in the two main characters and their tortured love. The only person she felt sorry for was An Ying, the first princess consort the male lead married.

An Ying came from a distinguished family. She had also been born premature, leaving her frail and sickly, and spent all four seasons of the year steeped in medicine. She was far too weak to withstand the two lunatics, the male and female leads, putting her through the wringer. She died halfway through the story, becoming the unforgotten first love of countless readers.

Seeing the beloved character she had pitied in the original story standing right in front of her, Lu Shang followed her heart and secretly decided to become best friends with An Ying, then take her and flee to a faraway place!

So you made your wife sick and frail, huh? Come on, I'll show you how to take proper care of a wife!

To that end, she made a detailed plan to become best friends with Princess Consort An.

Stage One: Become friends.

Stage Two: Become close confidantes who can lie in the same bed and chat.

Stage Three: Take her confidante far away from those two lunatics!

Later, after Lu Shang successfully eloped with Princess Consort An, she found that plan in the study again. With trembling legs, she gritted her teeth and crossed out the last item, only for An Ying, who had come looking for her and smelled of medicine, to take her hand and write on the paper, stroke by stroke: Stage Three: Marry An Ying and lure the enemy in.

Fine, then.

Prince of Zhennan, your wife is wonderful. She's mine now.

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An Ying had a secret. Her noble birth was real, and so was the fact that she was unwanted. The first secret letter she received from her family at the distant estate told her to take the place of her eloping elder sister and marry into the Prince of Zhennan's manor.

Her elder sister was sickly and needed medicine all year round. To make An Ying fit her sister's identity, they forced her to drink poisonous broth that gradually weakened her body. An Ying, who had once ridden horses and hunted, was now bedridden and constantly cold.

Her days passed in the same dull routine, until her cheap husband took in a concubine named Lu Shang. Then life became colorful.

Just after Lu Shang entered the manor, An Wang was summoned by imperial decree to the borderlands, with no telling when he would return to the capital. The next day, An Ying saw a pair of bright, clear eyes gazing at her.

So beautiful.

Even the most beautiful eyes would be worn down by the confines of this manor. The first time An Ying saw Lu Shang, she thought, I want to pluck those eyes out and preserve them at their most beautiful moment.

One winter, Lu Shang, wrapped in a scarlet cloak, lay across her lap, gazing at her with bright eyes. "How about I take you away from here? Just the two of us, opening a cosmetics shop in Jiangnan. You can run the shop, and I'll be your assistant. What do you say?"

An Ying straightened the pearls and jeweled ornaments in her hair, then turned her head and coughed softly. "All right. Take me away. Anywhere is fine."

How could she bear to make her sunshine work as a servant?

Her fingertip gently brushed Lu Shang's eyelid, and she thought that those eyes looked best when they belonged to her.

Little Scene

One day, after eloping together, An Ying and Lu Shang ran into the Prince of Zhennan.

The Prince of Zhennan had never imagined that there could be an affair in his own household. He stared at his former princess consort and former concubine with eyes full of fury. "I never knew this concubine was for you!"

1. An Ying and the original novel's main characters have nothing going on!

2. More or less, it's a seemingly frail and kind but secretly gloomy, unhinged beauty gong x sunny, spirited, straightforward little-sun shou.

3. I was going to call it Her Lips, but then I thought, I Can't Raise a Wife, So I'll Do It Myself sounded so good, so I changed it.

Theme: Protect small animals, starting with you and me.