Back to the Past to Embrace My Monster Boyfriend

Next door to Yu Chuwei lives a monster.

No one knows the monster's real name. Everyone is afraid of him, and they always hurry past his apartment.

No one has ever seen the monster, because he never goes out during the day.

Many neighbors say, "The Federation is just taking the easy way out by letting a monster like that live here. They use mental care instead of prison!"

Yu Chuwei never imagined that on the third day after moving into his new home, he would meet the monster on a rainy night.

He was nothing like the ferocious fiend of the rumors, nor was he several yards tall with a green face and fangs.

The monster was a man of imposing height and build. His defined chest showed through a thin black shirt, and two crimson dragon horns rose above his short silver-black hair, one of them broken and jagged.

His desolate, cold gaze swept over Yu Chuwei, making his knees weak.

Yu Chuwei works the night shift at a Federation care facility. The only 3S-level Omega in the entire facility, he is slender and handsome, and has been hit on by plenty of alphas.

Tonight, one alpha would not leave him alone and even followed him all the way to his front door.

Just as Yu Chuwei was at a loss, the door next door opened.

The moment the alpha saw the monster, his face went white. He cried out a word, then scrambled away in a panic, looking utterly pathetic.

After the monster went downstairs, Yu Chuwei took a long while to recover. He had heard a word from the alpha: "Marshal."

There was only one Marshal in the Federation: an ancient legend who had never been defeated, a human nuclear weapon, the Federation's sharpest blade. Rumor had it that after the Star Wars, the Marshal suffered from severe mental power surges and had long since retired from public life. No one knew where he was.

For a moment, Yu Chuwei could not connect the monster with the legendary Marshal.

But he thought the monster was a good person, and wanted to repay him.

After quietly observing the monster for a long time, Yu Chuwei discovered that he often went alone to the nearby riverbank late at night to fish, and ate nothing but cold, raw food.

Mustering his courage, Yu Chuwei invited him over one night as the monster was leaving. "I made fish soup tonight, but there's too much for me to finish alone. Would you like to eat with me?"

The monster silently followed Yu Chuwei into his home.

They say the hardest part is getting started, but Yu Chuwei had clearly made a good start.

After that, the monster often came to his place for dinner.

He would help Yu Chuwei wash the dishes and mop the floor, fix the broken water heater, clean the air conditioner that had gone unused for ages, and listen to him vent about work. He was always gentle and patient.

The monster was exactly what Yu Chuwei had imagined in a partner.

But he never expected the monster to turn him down.

The monster said there was a vast age gap between them, along with the realities of life. His face was worn with age, his body covered in old wounds, while Yu Chuwei was so young and should have the best years of his life ahead of him.

The monster rejected Yu Chuwei, washed the bowls, and put them in the dishwasher. After that, he never set foot in Yu Chuwei's home again.

Later, an accident revealed the monster's identity once and for all. Only then did Yu Chuwei learn that the monster was the Marshal who had retired from public life. In the house that had been consumed by fire, Yu Chuwei found an old military uniform, a symbol of the Marshal's former glory.

Yu Chuwei kept the uniform and hung it in his wardrobe. That night, he fell asleep in tears.

When he awoke the next day, Yu Chuwei was astonished to find that he had traveled back twenty years. The Marshal was twenty-one that year, a top-tier alpha and the number one student in the command program at the Imperial Military Academy.

As for Yu Chuwei, somehow he had become the little boyfriend the Marshal's younger sister was preparing to date. He had dyed his hair blue and dressed like a two-bit hoodlum.

The Marshal gave him a cold look and told him to stay away from his sister.

Yu Chuwei: "..."

Theme: People should stand on their own feet and strive to be strong