After the Spirit Spring Awakened, My Boyfriend Wasn't Human

Sweet romance in the beginning + nonhuman love interest + yandere + redemption + mild horror + mutual first love + forced love in the middle and later arcs + age gap

He Jingjing always felt that her life was probably already over.

At twenty-three, her parents were dead, and she had no friends or social life.

But she had a house with a little courtyard, a car she loved, and more money than she could ever spend.

Then one day, the spirit spring space that had been with her for two years suddenly disappeared.

Staring at the last sum of money it had left in her bank account, He Jingjing fell into thought:

“So… my golden finger retired?”

Hoping to escape the inexplicable emptiness she felt, she drove to Suzhou to clear her head.

A sudden downpour sent her taking shelter in a rockery in a classical garden.

And there she met the man who would change her life.

Thirty-eight-year-old Lian Wen was gentle, refined, mature, and reliable.

He would stroll through the gardens with her, make a point of eating the little cookies she’d messed up, and hold her hand whenever she was afraid.

He Jingjing thought she’d found the greatest stroke of luck in her life.

Until one late night.

She discovered that her boyfriend had tentacles…