He and It

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A collection of short stories featuring non-humans!

(Six novels that can be read independently with very different styles, just pick your favorite and read along.)

① The King’s Pearl. Jiang Mian was adopted as a child by a professor whose life revolved around researching mermaids. After his father dies, Jian Mian is the sole person with this secretive research. When the research institute captures a ferocious mermaid, Jiang Mian becomes the only one who can get close enough to the imprisoned creature.

② A God’s Marriage. When there’s no longer something to guard, the guardian gods will dissipate between heaven and earth. The sea otter was the guardian god worshipped by the Ice Sea people, but the new era was also full of new gods, and in the ancient sea otter clan, only one particularly large and white sea otter remained.

The big albino sea otter lived alone, wandered alone, and waited for the fated finale to come. Until one day, on the beach, it found a living sacrifice intended for a new god, covered in bruises.

The great sea otter: a wild pup from the sky! Now mine, quickly tucked away.

③ Dark Sky Sanctuary. Yu Mengzhou is a professional horse farrier. He was born to be close to horses, and all the horses whose hooves he had repaired would put their big heads into his arms to be pampered. Until one day, Yu Mengzhou suddenly fell into a new world.

The demonic war horses of the other world were huge and lofty, with black flames burning around them, and the lords of the herd had just started a rebellion, tearing and devouring their former riders, and sizing up the frail humans who had fallen from the sky, baring their fierce fangs – Yu Mengzhou stared at the warhorse lord studded with th**ny bone thorns hooves, hesitated and spoke in a whisper, “Do you need to fix your hoof? Experience price… can be free of charge.”

④ Utopia. Gu Xingqiao did not want to live. He was demoralized and lost everything, and there was no other sorrow or joy in this life. He finally fell into a disused battleship of unknown centuries.

After thousands of years of wandering and silence in the universe, the abyssal battleship finally found fresh prey again. He wanted to torture him, give him hope and then mercilessly deprived of all, He wanted to make the other party wail, cry, scream in despair! He …

[…Uh, why don’t you run away?]

Gu Xingqiao: “Why, silly?”

⑤ The Serpent of Pharisee. Male Echidna x persistent human painter

⑥ Inquire Here. Dragon carrying the evil of all worlds x human royal son who was sacrificed

One sentence synopsis: I love you, beyond the stars.

Intention: Love transcends everything.

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他与它
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Akiru122
Akiru122 rated it
January 31, 2024
Status: Completed
I enjoyed this. Each story was detailed, and I was very invested, especially in "The Serpent of Pharisees".

The whole story was very unique and even made me tear up a little at the emotional ups and downs.

I did not finish reading Utopia, I was unable to get invested in the story very well and finally left it and moved on. This is the same outcome for the last story, "Inquire Here" or "Ask Here, " I could read up until about the middle of it but overall could not finish... more>> it, I suppose I didn't like the MLs in these two stories.

Every story (at least I think every story) covered every point...? I don't believe there were many if any plot holes, the writing was nice and although I got confused with a few terms and there was some mix-up with pronouns here and there it was good!

Anyway, I would recommend this story! I don't usually read stories like this, (mainly because I haven't found a lot of them) but I thoroughly enjoyed it and I think you will too, just give it a chance <3. <<less
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Shrike1978
Shrike1978 rated it
March 26, 2025
Status: Completed
So the description lists these as short stories, but really they are novellas since all of them are between 30 and 40 chapters except book 6 which is 61 so that's a short novel.

Beyond that, you can find something for anyone in these stories.

There's a bit more traditional with a mermaid and a human.

Then a CUTE FUZZY OTTER GOD for those who want a story that is rolling in fluff in some ways (Sorry, I just think the otter is too adorable and the MC who mends his broken heart.... more>> Ah! *Goofy reviewer falls over in a faint*)

The farrier and the demon horses was interesting because the demon horses are all OOP teenagers except the ML leader.

I thought the spaceship's ai and the human combo was interesting, especially once they start debating/courting each other with poetry.

Echidna (a half-man half-snake demon god) and the painter was awesome. First, I would LOVE someone to draw Echidna. The description of him is awesome. Second, I just thought it was a really neat story since it turned into an epic fight for love with art. Also I thought the author did a good job capturing the arrogance and power of the ancient Greek Gods.

Last story is a cultivation story. A cultivator and a dragon, but not your typical evil dragon or good cultivator. They are the supreme goodness and supreme evil and were married to balance each other like the dao. Evil hubby goes a little too far and this becomes the ultimate wife chasing crematorium story. Usually I don't like these but I actually thought this one was pretty good.

Really, I thought the author did a good job creating each of the intricate worlds for each story. They are almost all focused heavily on MCs and MLs to maximize character development. There is a lot of thought in the development of all the relationships and the stories have their own distinct characters and plots.

I liked all of them but Echidna was my favorite followed by the Otter god. I do recommend trying one or all of them. <<less
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bunnycore
bunnycore rated it
July 11, 2024
Status: --
I LOVE this novel. I'm waiting for it to be fully translated, but so far it's really great. I really liked the first story, "The King's Pearl", as well as "A God's Marriage", the second one. My favorite so far is the fourth story, "The Serpent of Pharisee" (still being translated).

The pairing in "The Serpent of Pharisee" is Male Echidna x persistent human painter, and if anyone's wondering like I was, Echidna is actually the half-human, half-snake "Mother of Monsters" in Greek Mythology. ML is basically just her male descendant...... more>> not the animal. Before knowing that, I wasn't too surprised with an echidna ML, as the ML in the second story (A God's Marriage) is a sea otter. Lol <<less
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Aureatic
Aureatic rated it
August 22, 2024
Status: c168
Echoing others' sentiments. Serpent of Pharisee is definitely my favourite, just everything about it. The ML is unique, the MC is an artist and I found the themes of his struggle with talent and the practice of art really deep and relatable. A King's Pearl was pretty cute, though I kinda skimmed over the fluff parts at the end. I haven't read A God's Marriage since I skipped to Dark Sky Sanctuary, but to be honest I dropped the latter because I couldn't enjoy the fact that there were so... more>> many characters being introduced all at once in that one. I've yet to read Inquire Here since the current translation hasn't put it out yet. Will update soon. <<less
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Nom de Plume
Nom de Plume
February 7, 2025
Status: n/a
I have been reading the books out of order without an issue. The translator has them separated by book on their site so it is relatively easy to pick and choose the stories you might be interested in.

One book I read was Utopia and I did not find it as hard to get into as other readers. I have read a few artificial intelligence romance stories and this one was reasonably good among the category, after the initial hostility was resolved and the machine stopped trying to (literally) torture... more>> the death-seeking protagonist. The setting was very close to that of the first arc of Everyone Knows I am a Good Person, with a much less manipulative and more sincere version of the “Mechanical Emperor”. The love interest is indeed a warship, but he does have a bionic humanoid body. He has been trapped by his creator in an uninhabited system from a long lost era of human civilization. His love for the protagonist is inevitable as the first being he becomes invested in trying to keep alive.

The books do feature nonhuman love interests, but do not seem take a deep dive into fetish territory. I admit I read the story with the pairing I was most wary of first, to see if the author’s style was something I could accept before getting too invested in the series. The protagonists I have read so far have their own minds and the human-nonhuman couples are shown to be intelligent creatures who love each other in spite of their innate differences. I have not read the sea otter story (#2?) yet, but falling in love with a demon horse was an exception and not an innate inclination for the story #3. It may still be uncomfortable for some readers with concerns. The love interest and his brothers are still clearly demon horses even when they are able to take on a human form. The great part of this series is that the reader can truly pick and choose to independently read the books they are interested in. They are full fledged stories with proper world building, developed characters, and satisfying conclusions. You will not lose anything from the books you do read by skipping others. <<less
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loneplum
loneplum rated it
May 14, 2025
Status: Completed
This is a great collection of short stories! None of the stories are related so you can read them in any order you like. And considering the author makes it clear that these are all stories about human-nonhuman relationships, there’s nothing explicit, distasteful, or weird.

I really enjoyed Dark Sky Sanctuary, Utopia, and The Serpent of Pharisee.

All the stories have interesting aspects.

  • In The King’s Pearl, the MC needs to navigate his own survival in the research laboratory after the death of his father - I found the villain to be pretty sinister.
  • A God’s Marriage has an unexpectedly cute sea otter god and fluffy domestic scenes.
  • Dark Sky Sanctuary has a fun group of bickering demon horses, each with their own personality and godly abilities.
  • In Utopia, the MC originally had no desire to continue living and yet is stopped by artificial intelligence from a bygone era.
  • The Serpent of Pharisee is about a male Echidna (the Echidna from Greek mythology and not the cute porcupine-like animal I originally thought it was) and a modern-day artist who transmigrated over to ancient Greece. This one was definitely a very cool story.
  • Inquire Here started out really strong, but then I felt that it got a little too philosophical and too long - possibly because it was the longest of these short stories and I was expecting a faster resolution. Although given the premise of the story, it was destined to take longer for everything to work out to a happy ending.
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