[Gender-bender + mild raising trope + mild adjustment + forced love + 1v3]
Legend says that human-shaped, fleshy monsters grow in the blood-soaked mud beneath ancient gallows.
Their roots resemble human bodies, and they are vicious by nature. If forcibly pulled from the earth, they let out a piercing shriek that drives anyone who hears it mad, until they die raving.
People call them "Blood Eggplants," and this one named herself Qiu Qie.
She has lived for a thousand years, immortal and undying, while the instinct to reproduce etched into her very bones and blood gnaws at her day and night.
Ordinary soil cannot nurture her seeds, and beasts and birds cannot bear her roots. Only human bodies are just barely compatible, yet every attempt ends in failure.
So she hides among ordinary people, using desire as bait to strike all manner of deals, choosing handsome young men as her "experimental soil."
