(Male-male romance, nonhuman characters, twisted personalities, Western fantasy, forced love, one-sided love, love at first sight, the fall-in-love-after-all trope, and a story set in the era of classic American horror.)
[Brutal, temperamental top vs. fragile bottom on the run]
Murder after murder kept breaking out all over town, leaving everyone on edge. No one expected Ye Nan to be the killer’s next target!
What happened next gradually went beyond anything he could imagine, shattering and reshaping his view of the world. Trapped in a world that was both familiar and strange, he had to carve out a way to survive between fate and that demon.
But Ye Nan was lucky enough to find his own rules for survival:
1. You must accept the existence of things beyond the human.
2. You can try to find a weakness in “him.”
3. If you don’t fight back, you’ll die, but fighting back will only bring disaster.
At the moment Bode’s life was fading away, his hands trembling as he cupped Ye Nan’s face, he kissed him with determination and pain.
His final words were whispered right into Ye Nan’s ear: “At least I count as one of your possessions... That way... my death won’t be in vain.” His shattered gaze was full of reluctance to let go.
According to the demon’s bargain, there were still two things he had to take from Ye Nan for the rest of his life... But what else could Ye Nan possibly have left for him to take?
The demon had forced his way into every part of Ye Nan’s life. Even eating had become like being a puppet on strings. At every moment, sticky, spiderweb-like eyes clung to his body, crawling over every pore. He began to feel disgusted and sickened by it...
“I have to find a way to get away from ‘him,’ to get away from Milton.”
[The earlier part focuses on the plot; the later part focuses on the romance]
🥹The cover is the modeled face of the protagonist, which is easy to represent. But when I listen to the book, I still have that (uncle voice) that sounds interesting.