Blurb:
Jiang Yuanqing came from an ordinary background, but fell in love with the young master of the Ji family.
He naively thought he had found true love. In reality, he was only a cannon-fodder character destined to be abandoned.
The Ji family heir would ultimately marry someone of equal standing, while Jiang Yuanqing's love and devotion would become a ridiculous joke. His actions indirectly caused his mother's death, and he was also framed and left disfigured.
Worried that Jiang Yuanqing would cling to them after being disfigured, the Ji family “generously” announced that they would compensate him by arranging for him to marry another young master of the family.
That night, Jiang Yuan was sent to the Ji family's old mansion.
Looking at his ashen face, a servant sneered, “At least you're marrying into a wealthy family. It's not a bad deal for you.”
...Not a bad deal?
Knowing the truth, Jiang Yuanqing gave a self-mocking laugh in his heart.
There was no other young master in the Ji family. He was just a cover story they'd invented to hide the monster in the old mansion.
This so-called marriage into a wealthy family was really just their way of sending him to his death and eliminating a potential threat.
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Bound hand and foot and dressed in wedding clothes, Jiang Yuanqing knelt in the dark old mansion, his heart full of despair.
At the height of his hopelessness, a pair of arms reached around him from behind and held him tenderly.
Jiang Yuanqing raised his head in a daze, meeting a pair of pure black eyes.
Their owner bore some resemblance to the young master of the Ji family, but that beautiful face looked too perfect to be real.
“You're so beautiful.”
It licked the wound on Jiang Yuanqing's face, then his tears, and whispered tenderly against his earlobe, “Why don't you stop loving him? I'll be good to you.”
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No one knew how Jiang Yuanqing made it out of that old mansion alive, much less how the wounds on his face healed.
But everyone saw that not one of the people who had abandoned, betrayed, or framed Jiang Yuanqing met a good end.
Those who suffered his revenge could only make sinister guesses: Jiang Yuanqing must have made a deal with that entity, paying a terrible price.
What no one knew was that, on many nights, that entity did indeed come close to Jiang Yuanqing's ear to ask for a little compensation.
“Did I do a good job, Qingqing?”
The voice seemed to come from right beside his ear, yet also from all directions, like a predator tenderly gathering its prey into its nest.
“Th-thank you, darling.”
“You won't even let me eat them outright. A thank-you isn't enough.”
A soft laugh sounded beside his ear. A cold, supple tentacle reached from who knew where and wound its way down Jiang Yuanqing's body.
“Is there any other reward for me... Qingqing?”
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A hollow, gravity-warping monster who cherishes only the bottom x a proud, broken beauty who is half-disfigured at first
1. One-on-one. The top is a nonhuman being with somewhat Lovecraftian elements. The way the top is referred to changes depending on whether it is in human or nonhuman form.
2. The bottom begins with half his face disfigured, but it will heal. He's beautiful even when disfigured.
3. Please don't judge the top and bottom by real-world moral standards. This is not recommended for anyone with specific preferences about character control.
4. A big spider hums.
Theme: Good.
