Even a Lonely Squirrel Has Its Burrow

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Samuhun: Age 32. A snake shifter and an executive at Mirae Capital. Born to a snake shifter mother and an ordinary father, he is a half-shifter. Contrary to his cold exterior, he cherishes small animals, having devotedly cared for and tearfully bid farewell to five pet hamsters. One day, his heart is stolen by a squirrel that appears before him.

Kang Garam: Age 21. A squirrel shifter and college student. While his true form is an adorable squirrel, he has a soft and handsome appearance. After losing his parents in an accident at a young age and then losing the grandmother who raised him, he resolves to avoid further separations. Amid this determination, he encounters a man who extends a warm hand.

Kang Garam, a squirrel shifter who lost both his guardian and home in an instant.

While evading loan sharks demanding repayment for a debt he never owed, he hides in a park in his squirrel form. There, he meets a suspiciously handsome man, Samuhun.

Garam finds comfort in Samuhun’s kindness as the man brings him nuts and cranberries daily. Before he knows it, he’s on the path to becoming Samuhun’s pet squirrel.

“Come to think of it… Is our squirrel male?”

“Our squirrel, are you hungry?”

“Are squirrels usually this smart?”

Though Garam feels awkward being treated as a pet by Samuhun, who doesn’t realize he’s a shifter, he finds himself drawn to the man’s sweet gestures. Then one day, Garam discovers that Samuhun, who had been so kind to him, is actually an executive at the loan shark company that has been tormenting him.

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System96
System96 rated it
March 10, 2025
Status: c38
This is a well written, fluffy shifter story with a rather dark premise. MC, a squirrel shifter, gets tricked into debt and decides to live as a squirrel in a park to avoid the debt collectors, and meets the ML in the park. Yada yada it turns out ML is the CEO of the debt collection company, and the two have a mutual enemy.

There's several significant pros to this story. The first? It's cute. The second? There's zero and I mean ZERO miscommunication. It's just not an issue. They just... more>> talk to each other it's beautiful. The general dynamic of lonely squirrel x cute animal lover snake works pretty well too, with most of the characters feeling realistic. It also briefly involves shifter discrimination but idk if that will go anywhere.

Okay, review over, time to rant about squirrels. See, the author has not experienced a squirrel in real life and it shows. Yeah squirrels are extremely cute and fun to watch, but having one as a pet?? Worst decision ever. They're twitchy, neurotic, hyperactive, angry, and have sharp little claws and a good bite on them too. If squirrels get too comfortable around people they're known to attack them for being near their nests. Needless to say, MC does a very poor job of acting like a wild squirrel, but that's okay because ML Lowkey thinks something's off from the beginning anyways. I repeat. Do not consider getting a pet squirrel. <<less
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Yuw
Yuw rated it
May 10, 2025
Status: c102
So far a cute story, with quite a consecutive development, not the best one, but an alright read.

I was actually a little disappointed because I thought it would be better, but a good read anyways....I mean I was hoping for some conspiracies or unexpected developments, but it's just consistently going forward in the storyline. (I was reading some masterpieces before this, so I might be a lil biased, sry for that)

What I found questionable is sometimes the pacing, cause when it just gets into something interesting, it switches to... more>> random slice of life.

Sometimes the character settings were also a little questionable, like when
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Garam transformed into his original form because of too much stress. Like, he's been taking care of himself full alone for 2 years, and then went and survived in a park. He had plenty that he could've stressed about back then, he had this epic squirrel setting, who's a fighter. I mean, I understand that the author wanted to have a reason to let Muheon see his squirell form for development, but stress (??) why

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I don't think that Muheon's dilemma about Garam's age was too overwhelming or anything tho. It perfectly fit into the story, and he was more like coming straight with himself... So it wasn't even about Garam.

I'm still waiting to see what their relationship's development will be like, because that's the actual gem of this story for me.

They're really cute and real with it, respecting and fangirling over each other, so you really just want to ship them together <3

... it's just that I've read better stories in other aspects, anyways, go and read it for yourself and then see :P <<less
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vortexsweets
vortexsweets
April 11, 2025
Status: c49
It's okay so far. I like the concept and the beginning has been good! No terrible miscommunication, if anything, things that could lead to a long misunderstanding/miscommunication arc get resolved really quickly (up until the chapter I read, anyway). Honestly, I loved the start and how the two leads met, and I loved how the ML is genuinely so empathetic toward small animals. It's really cute.

Anyway, I dropped this for reasons I will explain below, but none of it is super terrible, it's all just my own opinion so if... more>> you're interested in this novel, please read it yourself and form your own opinion of it! the translator did an amazing job with the translation!

Okay, so, as a warning, there is an 11 year age difference between the two leads. The MC, when the story really starts, is 21 (this does not take into account what their actual ages would be without the Korean aging system because I'm not sure about that). This was kind of... I'm not super against age gaps but, this is a crazy age gap if the younger person is 21. If he was 23 or older it'd be more okay imo, but 21? In korea, he had legally been an adult for maybe a year at that point.

The strangest thing about this age gap is that the author is clearly aware of how wide it is. Around chapter 30-50 the ML remarks somewhere that the age gap between them is so big that he would be crazy to think of the MC from a romantic/s*xual perspective (from what I've seen, there are s*x scenes, but they don't seem to appear until way after chapter 100, so take from that what you will since I haven't read that much). So clearly, there's already me wondering what the purpose of such a large age gap is, especially if the ML isnt interested in someone so much younger than him.

I can go along with the age gap because this is fiction, not reality, and the way the author writes the characters and their relationships is not necessarily realistic to what an actual IRL version of this relationship would be.

But for some reason the author (yes, the author, not the ML) describes the MC in a very child-like way. He is 21 so I chalked it up to youth and naivety for a while, which is fine, but the words they use and the phrases they describe him with, I mean, he's 21, not 11. Some of these come from the ML's perspective. I understand if he calls the MC a child or "kid" because, again, the age gap is just so big. But it's clearly the author that's describing the MC in a way that makes me wonder whether he just started middle school or college.

Like, I get it. He's young. Okay. Can he please act like an adult? It's ok if he's naive or ignorant at that age but there's a difference between that and straight up being written as having reactions and mannerisms as if he were years younger than he really is. Its not annoying so much as it is weird, and I know the average 21-year-old doesn't act like that. Though they're young, they're still adults (I'm talking as if it's been a decade or more since I was 21 but I'm still in my early to mid twenties so it hasn't been that long lol).

Anyway. This is primarily why I dropped it. It makes me uncomfortable. Mind you, the MC is not described to have a small, child-like appearance. The author writes him as being tall and havig sharp, handsome features that you wouldn't expect from a squirrel shifter. Which just makes his child-like reactions and descriptions all the stranger. Especially when the ML is saying how he doesn't even think about the MC in "that" way because of the age difference.

but also, I've lived a chaotic life so I'm not sure if the reason I think all of this about the MC is because it's really like that, or because as the ML said about himself, I've become desensitized to various things. I don't know.

Again, this is all my own opinion, but... I just had to write it in a review. <<less
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