[The supporting female lead is the female lead's spouse] [Proud heiress, the white moonlight x tentacled monster substitute maid]
It ate a dying person in the sea and agreed to take on her fate.
She said she was a pitiful substitute named Zhang Wanning.
It crawled ashore and wandered along the road, where a kind woman picked her up and took her back to the city. The woman even treated her to a meal.
She was so nice.
Then a man came looking for her. He shouted angrily and slammed doors and cups, then finally gave her a check, ranting about substitutes and how she wasn't good enough, and ordering her to disappear at once.
Zhang Wanning stayed up all night reading ten stories about substitutes getting their comeuppance, and felt like she was growing a brain. Suddenly, a hand covered her book. The kind woman who had treated her to a meal said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. You have nowhere to go... Why not stay at my place for now?"
The woman cleared her throat and looked away. "I have plenty of empty servants' rooms, anyway."
The kind woman's name was Ji Dai'an. She was a strange person.
When Zhang Wanning organized her wardrobe, she said the work was good and that Zhang Wanning really was suited to being a maid, but she smelled a little heartbroken.
When Zhang Wanning took some time to learn the basics of being human, Ji Dai'an mocked her for being stupid and knowing nothing. A couple of days later, she tossed her an enrollment certificate.
When Zhang Wanning ran into that volatile man, he grabbed her wrist and cursed her for trying to drive a wedge between them. While she searched her memory for lines from substitute stories, the kind heiress stepped between them, mocked the man, slapped him, and led her away.
She smelled sweet, bitter, heartbroken, and secretly delighted.
Humans had such complicated scents.
One time, while drunk, the heiress Ji Dai'an hugged her maid, clutched her collar, and slurred, "C-can you like me?"
Then, emboldened by the alcohol, she fell into the maid's arms and kissed the lips she had long desired.
The maid was silent.
The transparent shadow beneath her spread out, transforming into one soft tentacle after another. They brushed against the heiress's hair, then curled around her ankles.
"You secretly kissed her!"
"I want a kiss too!"
"Me too!"
"Let me kiss her first!"
The Ji family's heiress had a maid who seemed very honest and a little slow, yet was remarkably efficient at her work, whether organizing the wardrobe or attending to the heiress.
In unseen corners, transparent tentacles lifted the hem of her skirt and slid sinuously over her pale skin, leaving streaks of red behind.
They cried out:
"She smells so good!"
"She's so soft!"
"I want to eat her!"
Reader advisory:
1. The protagonist is a jellyfish octopus with 12 legs, not a human.
Theme: Caring is where love begins