Childhood friends / mutual crush / nonhuman male lead | Optimistic, cheerful ray of sunshine x insecure, gloomy snake demon
Wen Chi was the neighborhood's famous ringleader from a young age, with countless underlings. The clingiest of them was her neighbor Xie Ji, who had grown up with her.
Someone had seen Xie Ji beat a person up.
He slammed the other person's head hard against the ground, punching them with all his might. Blood spattered his glasses, but he calmly took them off and wiped them clean. His eyes, which should have been dark, shone with an eerie red light.
When Wen Chi heard about it, she looked at her childhood friend, who was obediently following behind her. His thick glasses hid most of his face, making him look dull and easy to bully. Wen Chi let out an incredulous laugh.
Ever since Wen Chi got into university, strange messages had kept showing up on her phone.
At first, they were just a few ambiguous, flirtatious lines. Then came blurry, barely recognizable pictures. Most recently, the sender had sent human limbs and claimed they would avenge the woman who had died.
Unable to take it anymore, she asked who the sender was. To her surprise, this time the message didn't disappear into the void. She got a reply.
[Who gave you the nerve to impersonate the account owner?]
[Impersonate? I'm Wen Chi. You've been sending me creepy private messages every day, and now I should be asking who you are!]
The person on the other end spent a long time typing. Wen Chi didn't receive a reply until the next day.
[I'm Xie Ji.]
“...”
Wen Chi stared up in a daze. Xie Ji noticed her gaze and looked at her gently. “What's wrong? Is there something you don't understand? I can help.”
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Xie Ji was a secret experimental weapon, Subject 07, the Snake Man.
He returned to human society at the age of ten as a defective product.
After an accidental encounter, he was saved by the girl next door, and from then on he clung to her like a leech.
He was base and broken, and never dared to dream that the sun would shine on him alone. All he wanted was to stay by his light as an ordinary person.
He never expected even this tiny wish to be shattered.
At the graduation party, he eagerly welcomed Wen Chi, only to be met with her cold corpse.
That night, every metric for Subject 07 exceeded its threshold. Xie Ji, covered in blood, appeared in the laboratory and knelt, begging them to restart the experiment.
He sold his soul to the devil, all to personally kill the real culprit who had murdered the girl.
[Bonus Scene]
Xie Ji sat in a room strewn with corpses and opened his phone to send Wen Chi her usual message.
Without holding back, he sent her all the things he'd never dared to hope she would answer: his secret crush and the despicable thoughts he couldn't bring himself to say aloud.
Only, no one would ever reply again
“Ding-dong.” Several messages suddenly came from Wen Chi's account.
Wait, someone had actually replied to him???
He opened the messages:
[What do I do? I think I've fallen for my childhood friend, but they said we're just friends, sob sob sob.]
?
[It's over. Xie Ji seems to be a snake demon. His tail keeps wrapping around me at night. Good thing he doesn't know I've figured out his secret, or I couldn't keep pretending.]
??
[By the way... couldn't Xie Ji let me touch his tail more?]
???
Reading guide:
1:1v1, both pure, each other's first love, mutual crush, out of sync in time, each has only the other.
Theme: Those who never forget will eventually be answered.
