Encountering Evil

[Local Lovecraftian horror / Mild scares / Next up: Lovecraftian horror + a pretty, delicate, and crazed man] "...Did he never tell you that the gap between your species is even greater than the one between humans and paramecia? He truly had to defy every instinct to love you." It seemed that someone else was living in Bai Qiyu's home. The maddening smell of the sea at midnight, as he tossed and turned, The noisy voices echoing through the sewers, The cloying fragrance surrounding the swollen-headed "Mountain God," The nightmare of the German Concession air-raid shelter, with no way out... If sanity had a line that, once crossed, meant total collapse, he was walking right along its edge. "We have never truly understood this world. Not for a single moment." [Act One: It awoke in a cave on a pitch-black shore, then followed him. Then it split into ten people to ask him out. "Darling, you there? I've got all the faces you like. Want to date?" Bai Qiyu: As everyone knows, humans don't date ten people at once. [Act Two: A vague giant wandered at the edge of the horizon, melting, melting into the revelry of its followers. Then it kept asking him out. "Darling, you there? Tall (20,000 meters), rich, and handsome. Want to date?" Bai Qiyu: As everyone knows, humans don't date one... one hundred buildings. [Act Three: Bai Qiyu says there's no third act, because he's mastered every secret art of China and is ready to charcoal-grill seafood. [Before You Read] 1. A pretty, love-starved bottom who gets kissed while blindfolded by an evil entity vs. a sinister top, a domineering CEO and model student of gentlemanly conduct, with a split-body ability 2. Includes local shamans, spirit mediums, and original, out-of-character takes on local Lovecraftian horror [Coming Soon: He's So Pretty [Infinite Worlds]] [A let-loose work, starring a pretty, crazy man who attracts one-sided affection from everyone (and every living thing)] [Local Lovecraftian Horror / Thriller / Infinite-Flow / Coming This Year] On the third day after the world fell into disorder. Beyond the corridor lay a blood-red sky and a pitch-black wilderness, where a thousand-headed giant and a hundred-limbed worm slaughtered, melted, devoured, and swelled... In the mirror, the ghost of Guanyin, clad in a golden-red kasaya, coaxed him gently: "Ling Hualu, go assassinate the people in Dorm 405." But his roommate stopped him. The good news: his roommate wanted to be his dog and wouldn't let him get his hands dirty. The bad news: four years ago, Ling Hualu had already turned down his roommate's confession. And he'd turned him down three times, calling him a "freak." And he'd heard that the guy was dead. And... the guy didn't even have a human form anymore. If he could go back in time, Ling Hualu would rush back four years and force himself to say yes. ...Though maybe it wasn't too late now? In the surface world, where peace was only an act, reality had long since rotted and mutated. The "people" maintaining their "human forms" were doing their best to survive. Scenarios include: A haunted school during a typhoon, with home visits: a handsome young teacher vs. a tentacled monster principal A monster world where humans are kept as pets: a pampered little pet vs. a lion-headed count A circus at a bioweapons facility: a delicate animal tamer vs. a mysterious, seductive investor "Kiss you on the world's final day, and spend the countdown to the end of our lives with love and all things" A pretty, delicate, neurotic bottom X an unknown creature top who takes advantage of the situation while wearing a human guise The top splits into multiple bodies; the pairing is exclusive Theme: A true hero must face the grim truth