Little Mushroom

THIS. This is my favorite danmei on Earth. If you are a sci-fi fan in any capacity, READ THIS. The BL is a wonderful bonus. HOWEVER, there are trigger warnings for this novel, and I must recommend it to adults only. There are allusions to and attempts of s. assault, heavy descriptions of violence, gore and deaths, and insects. Be warned. Moving on: The romance is on the slow-burn side for the most part in favor of this incredibly unique take on futuristic post-apocalyptic sci-fi, where the Earth's magnetic fields disappeared and the entire planet was been utterly ravaged by radiation. Although humanity manages to surviveand restore a weaker magnetic field after a time, a good 90% of the world population died during the lapse, leaving the smallest pockets of humans still trying to eke out a living with few resources. Worse, the radiation has caused a collapse and re-evolution of the biosphere, where creatures have begun literally melting into each other to create all sorts of genetic hybrid monsters known as xenogenics. And these xenogenics? They find humans... tasty. Enter our MC: a sentient mushroom. Yeah. A sentient mushroom. A xenogenic mushroom, one who lived in the most irradiated, dangerous place on the continent the story is set in. It happens to stumble across a dying human male on a recon mission gone wrong and absorbs him, taking his place as a human-mushroom hybrid. And when the mushroom gains human consciousness, given the name An Zhe, he finds that his mushroom spore, his one and only one, has been taken from him. Cue little mushroom An Zhe embarking on a quest to recover his spore while trying to covertly blend in in to human society in the middle of their desperate battle for survival, while trying not to get shot by the gorgeous in uniform ML, Colonel Lu Feng of the Trial Court, whose mission is to murder any and all xenogenics on sight to protect what little humans remain. But little do they know that the two of them are the keys to humanity's continued existence... It's emotional. It's incredibly well written. The characters are larger than life and I sobbed my eyes out near the end. The bonus chapters are... spicy, a GOOD spicy. PLEASE READ LITTLE MUSHROOM! It is also being serialized as an ongoing manhua as of this review, so if you prefer a visual format full of gorgeous 2D men at every scroll, go for it!