After Rejecting the Obsessive Tentacle Creature's Confession

Bai Tao was just as lovely as his name suggested: fair, delicate, and beautiful. When he smiled, he looked like a dewy, exquisitely ripe peach. Before he came of age, admirers flocked to him nonstop. Unfortunately, all that loveliness froze in place when he turned eighteen. He saw how much other people hated him, and realized that everyone loathed him. Since that was the case, Bai Tao decided to use his knack for getting on people's nerves and joined a livestreaming variety show as its villainous clown. That very day, the Galaxy Fleet, known as the heart of the Empire, returned. The young imperial general leading it was Gu Chen, a boy marshal with the blood of an alien species running through one of his parents. He was also the hero idol adored by everyone on the capital planets. Media outlets scrambled to push through the crowd and present him with flowers, and the variety show Bai Tao was on was no exception. Bai Tao's task was simple: make a scene and shove his way to the front to offer flowers, drag someone in to be a guest on the livestream, and do whatever he could to annoy people and grab the camera's attention. But when Bai Tao saw who he was supposed to welcome, he was completely stunned. No one knew how long the famous marshal had been shunned as a monster when he was a child. And when he tried to court someone, he was rejected without mercy, with one spiteful remark left ringing in his ears: "I'd never marry a monster." Thinking of the gap between their current positions, Bai Tao was so scared he kept out of the marshal's way. Yet even from far away, the young marshal looked across the crowd at him. His black eyes were cool and clear. Behind him, a huge tentacle writhed in the shadows, barbed and threatening, while a blood-red 999+ glowed above his head... Great. Now he was really done for. * A few days later, Bai Tao somehow ended up fake-married to the marshal. Only then did he learn that the marshal hadn't liked him in the first place. He needed someone to purify the alien half of his body, so Bai Tao had to maintain an intimate relationship with him. That was easy enough! Bai Tao happily enjoyed all the privileges of being the marshal's spouse, and occasionally laughed to himself about how high the marshal's hatred score for him was. Clearly, the marshal was the one getting the short end of the stick whenever they got intimate. So even when the alien features that came close to him scared him half to death, he put up with it. But one day, he discovered that his ability had been wrong all along. What he saw wasn't a hatred score. Bai Tao happily walked out into the street, only to discover that everyone loved him. The little pink hearts floating above people's heads were so beautiful. Then a pair of arms wrapped around him from behind. Bai Tao turned around stiffly. Above the massive tentacles, a terrifying scarlet heart, so red it seemed to spill blood, beat wildly. The exceptionally handsome man came toward him with that heart, his possessive greed enough to make Bai Tao's scalp tingle. "Darling, it's time to go home." A possessive, yandere tentacled heartthrob seme X a pampered, gorgeous, irresistible uke Recommended upcoming novel: NPC Cheats and Gets Six Husbands After waking up, Jiang Jin, an ordinary but beautiful man, discovers that the world is about to become an infinite-flow game, and that he'll become a background NPC. At first glance, that sounds pretty good. He can drift through the world's most terrifying plots without a care. During the day, he can work an easy job as a librarian at a hellish high school, have lunch with his sister, a nurse at a psychiatric hospital, and go home to sleep in a haunted apartment building at night. Every now and then, he can pretend to be reluctant as he gives away a crucial clue. His life should be pretty comfortable. But things don't seem so simple. With staff in short supply, he's forced to work as an NPC in six different infinite-flow scenarios... Now he's a full-fledged overworked wage slave, and the worst part is that he doesn't even get paid. Jiang Jin is exhausted to the point of collapse. To make matters worse, all six scenario bosses are top-tier S+ threats. Players in their worlds always die without exception. The scenarios can't be sealed off, so they're restarted over and over until they collapse, while the NPCs inside are reassigned to other scenarios to keep working. Jiang Jin can't sit around anymore. He rolls up his sleeves and starts cheating on the sly. Using his NPC status, he secretly gives players clues. Since he's old friends with the other NPCs, he gets them to pull strings and help him cheat. If that isn't enough, he can just rely on his ghostly strength and brute-force his way through. If he can solve something by throwing a punch, there's no need to use his brain! Even if he seems to have offended the big boss, he just grits his teeth and accepts it. The boss will leave once the scenario is over, anyway. After overcoming one challenge after another, he finally gets most of the players to the last day, where they'll face that top-tier boss. With this many players, surely someone can clear the scenario. Jiang Jin turns and leaves, then lies flat and waits for the good news. He really does lie flat, eyes closed on the sports field, happily planning a vacation once it's all over. In the sunlight, his black hair is like a brilliant flower, and his red lips are strikingly alluring. Just as the players are getting closer and closer to clearing the scenario, someone plays dirty and steals a kiss, then takes advantage of him by slipping their tongue into his mouth. Jiang Jin jumps up in shock, then stares dumbfounded at several familiar suspects: the big bosses. Suspect Number One: the aloof junior at school, bullied until he turned into an evil spirit. Suspect Number Two: the sickly handsome serial killer who went on a killing spree at the psychiatric hospital. Suspect Number Three: the handsome neighbor in the apartment building, always coming and going with a knife in hand. They were all looking at him, their eyes scarlet. A gorgeous, cheating, laid-back uke X a yandere big boss split into multiple incarnations as the seme Theme: Work hard to make everyone happy and actively build a better life