Little Skeleton

A hot-tempered man who's afraid of ghosts and blood meets an adorable ghost.

Love can make a skeleton grow flesh.

Synopsis:

The orphan Jian Tiandong has always kept to himself. He's odd, withdrawn, cold, and quick-tempered. So he never expected that on his twenty-fifth birthday, he'd receive a gift from a distant relative he'd never met: an inherited property.

Jian Tiandong: Is money really falling from the sky?

After seeing the house:

Jian Tiandong: Is this a horror movie set?

The little villa was dilapidated and overgrown with weeds, with barely a single intact window. The inside looked like a crime scene, complete with mysterious bloodstains and cobwebs.

Jian Tiandong wanted to turn around and leave, but his old car broke down and stranded him in the middle of nowhere.

With no other choice, he stayed the night. He was tough, after all.

Jian Tiandong tidied up a room and went to bed fully dressed, but strange noises from downstairs woke him in the middle of the night. He mustered his courage and went to investigate. Something was moving in the kitchen in the dark.

It was a moving skeleton.

Jian Tiandong promptly fainted.

When he woke up, the skeleton was holding him in its arms.

Jian Tiandong fainted again.

After fainting and waking several times, Jian Tiandong flung the skeleton away, smashing it to pieces.

Unexpectedly, the scattered little bones joined themselves back together, reforming into the same skeleton as before. It touched its skull with a stark-white hand bone and even spoke: “I-it hurts...”

And so, the lonely and unsupported Jian Tiandong inexplicably made friends with a skeleton. The skeleton couldn't remember where it came from, how it died, or how old it was. All it knew was that it could bask in the moonlight every day and fill its stomach by eating incense ash.

The short-tempered Jian Tiandong decided to stay, repair and renovate the house, and give it a name: Little Skeleton.

Little Skeleton's steps went clackety-clack. It usually slept in the dark basement, afraid to meet people. It would only crawl upstairs when it heard Jian Tiandong come home. Its favorite thing was riding on the robot vacuum and eating fragrant, fresh incense ash.

One day, half a year later, an eyeball grew in Little Skeleton's empty left socket.

Jian Tiandong: Mom, that scared me to death!

Little Skeleton touched its skull. “Strange. I feel like I'm about to grow a brain.”

Over the next six months, Little Skeleton grew a piece of muscle one day and a blood vessel the next, slowly becoming a handsome, delicate young man. But the wound in his chest never healed, and his heart never grew. Jian Tiandong taught him to speak, eat, read, and use a phone, but had no idea how to grow a heart for Little Skeleton.

Then one day, Jian Tiandong spent the night at a friend's house and missed Little Skeleton's very first call. He didn't come home all night. The next day, Little Skeleton's body began to regress, and he lost an eyeball.

Jian Tiandong: ???

Theme: Treat your beloved with the gentleness of spring.