The Pretty Stammerer Is Forced by a Mad Monster

[Two male leads, 1v1 + both pure, happy ending + nonhuman/tentacles/obsessive + lunatic/imprisonment/yandere, possessive love + groveling pursuit]

[Black-bellied top who pretends to be pitiful; beautiful, cold-faced bottom who’s slow to understand his feelings]

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To pay off a massive debt, Yuan Xi was tricked by a shady employment agency and unexpectedly hired as a cook aboard an ocean-going ship.

As they crossed the Pacific, one strange incident after another took place. The people aboard the ship died in bizarre ways, and at night, an unseen presence was always watching him.

The feeling of being watched was everywhere, dark and enough to make his scalp crawl.

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“Brother Yuan Xi...”

The terrifying monster called to him in a meek voice.

Yuan Xi turned around. A palm-sized little octopus had curled its tentacles into a ball and was gazing at him with glistening eyes.

It was so tiny. What danger could it pose?

Later, Yuan Xi was bullied so badly that all he could do was weakly slap it.

Yuan Xi admitted he’d been wrong about it. It wasn’t pitiful at all.

The little octopus put on a soft, adorable face and admitted its mistake. “I’m sorry. You can hit me, just please... don’t leave me.”

Shameless!

What a rotten thing.

As soon as Yuan Xi got paid, he hurriedly fled.

The problem was, when he got home, he discovered that the terrifying monster had followed him there.

It pleaded, “Don’t leave me behind.”

It looked like the one who’d been wronged, yet Yuan Xi was the one who burst into tears.

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Its weakness and meekness were only a disguise.

If he’d known, he would never have trusted this devious monster. He should have thrown it as far away as possible.

A black-hearted bastard with a head full of schemes!

[Note: He’ll come around, there’s face-slapping, and the bottom has a speech disorder and stutters. He won’t recover later on. Looks come first. He runs, it chases, and chases, and chases!]