[A Cool-Headed, Warm-Hearted Tentacle Monster Artist of Erotic Comics x A Beautiful, Shrewd Heiress and Artist at a Publishing Group]
As usual, Xu Jing stepped into the convenience store late at night. While paying, she thought she glimpsed the cashier tapping the register with nimble little tentacles.
The cashier looked up at her, her voice as cold as thin ice:
"Twenty-one yuan and fifty fen. Please show me your payment code."
Xu Jing blinked hard, paid, and took her late-night snack, thinking: Finals really do mess you up.
At last, she made it through the ordeal. After a whole vacation, the hallucinations hadn't gone away. They'd only gotten worse.
On a dark and stormy night, the clerk, who wasn't working another shift, slapped a drunken creep who was trying to molest her right out the store with her tail...
Xu Jing rubbed her eyes.
Maybe that wasn't a tail?
Maybe it hadn't been a hallucination last semester either?
The new semester began. Xu Jing's roommate came back to the dorm and shared her latest favorite comic with her.
Xu Jing took it and flipped it open without a second thought, checking out the latest chapter: "The Female Customer at the Convenience Store."
She suddenly remembered that her roommate liked erotic comics.
But what was with the familiar character design and that figure that looked so much like someone she knew?!
The next day, Xu Jing discovered that the convenience store clerk attended the same university. Starting this semester, they even shared some classes.
When she looked over curiously, her roommate kindly explained:
That was Chu Shou, a legendary master artist on campus, a treasure of the fine arts college, and a famous comic artist who made a name for herself at a young age.
Chu Shou was a tentacle monster who had been raised by humans since childhood.
Monster might be an overstatement. She looked pretty much like a human, except for a few extra "arms."
Her tentacles had all sorts of uses and were nimble and quick, giving her a solid advantage when racing to meet her deadlines.
That's right, Chu Shou was a comic artist, and she drew the spicy kind.
Don't blame her. She was desperate to improve, so she clicked on a mysterious online learning bundle and came away with 64 GB of learning materials.
And honestly, they were all masterpieces by great artists. They were worth studying.
Tentacle monsters had keen senses and delicate emotions, making them especially suited to creative work. Before Chu Shou even went to university, she'd already made a name for herself in the community as a "tentacle master."
Chu Shou glanced down at her tentacles, only two fingers thick, and decided she didn't deserve such a grand reputation.
She had always been modest and low-key, keeping her identity in the world of comics a secret.
Until a woman with gorgeous curves came storming up to her... and slipped down the stairs.
The helpful tentacle monster caught her with her soft but strong left appendage
You ask why she didn't use her left hand?
Because tentacles can reach a little farther.
Xu Jing confronted the master artist on the spot and demanded compensation for using her as the model for an erotic comic. She ended up landing a side job as a "figure model."
When Xu Jing came to her senses, she thought: Why does this look like I'm the one compensating her?
One day, in the quiet studio of the campus's master artist, Chu Shou grew frustrated because her model couldn't hold the right pose, and she reached out without thinking.
But when she saw the other woman's astonished expression, she quickly realized she'd used the wrong "hand."
Xu Jing never thought she'd become obsessed with the creator of erotic comics...
But she really wanted those nimble tentacles that could hand over pens, pick up erasers, trace sketches, and apply color...
Until Chu Shou gently patted her back with a soft tentacle to soothe her to sleep.
In her dream, Xu Jing instinctively learned 108 special ways to use tentacles.
Xu Jing (crying): Why do they keep growing?
Chu Shou: I'm still considered underage in my species.
Xu Jing: ?!
1. A cool-headed, warm-hearted tentacle monster who draws erotic comics x a tsundere heiress and artist at a publishing group
2. Early on, Xu Jing thinks the tentacles are some kind of special mechanical arms made from artificial intelligence
Theme: Hobbies should be nurtured from an early age
