[The blurb may be revised again, but the premise won't change]
1.
As a breathtaking beauty with a heart of stone, Xie Huan has only two daily pursuits: researching genetic mutations and turning away his admirers.
Some obsessive admirers have even been willing to suppress their desires and pretend to be ordinary friends with no ulterior motives for as long as three years, just to get close to him!
Xie Huan: There's really no need.
Just when he was fed up with it all, his childhood friend Pei Zhou suggested that they could get married under an agreement, putting an end to the hopes of his other obsessive admirers.
Pei Zhou was not only his longtime friend, but also exceptionally powerful, easily outclassing those admirers. Most importantly, he was an upright person.
Upright in more ways than one.
Xie Huan was shamefully tempted.
Then, the day before their agreed-upon wedding, Pei Zhou was injured on a mission. When he woke up, he had amnesia.
Xie Huan hurried over, only to see Pei Zhou's eyes light up at the sight of him.
“Who are you?”
“Can I marry you?”
Xie Huan: ?
The therapist beside them, who knew the truth, hurriedly tried to cover for him with a lie: When someone has memory problems, they can develop a natural fondness for family and friends they were close to before. In more serious cases, patients may get confused by the feelings in their subconscious and blurt out a confession on the spot. I think he must have gotten confused.
Pei Zhou: ? I didn't get confused. I like him.
Xie Huan: ...
The injury really must be serious.
2.
After a battle with an extraterrestrial life-form, the injured Pei Zhou not only lost some important memories, but his genes also unexpectedly fused and mutated with those of the extraterrestrial being.
In practical terms, his SSS-level combat ability had temporarily disappeared, and he had turned into a bundle of transparent little tentacles that could only survive in a petri dish.
This was the second case in the Lango Empire in several years of a genetic mutation caused by fusion with extraterrestrial genes.
To care for him and observe the changes in the fused genes, he was assigned to recover at Xie Huan's residence.
On the night he moved in, Xie Huan asked what he thought: Should we sleep together?
Pei Zhou: !
Isn't that moving a little fast?
His expression remained stern, but the tips of his ears quietly turned red. He politely demurred: That might not be appropriate...
At the same time, the bundle of tentacles carefully placed nearby quickly changed from transparent to red, writhing wildly in every direction.
Xie Huan noticed the change, too. After watching Pei Zhou's stiff expression for a moment, he changed his mind: All right, then we'll sleep separately.
On the second day after he moved in, while preparing to enter the treatment chamber, Xie Huan was going to help apply treatment fluid over his chest and abdomen. But the moment his hand touched Pei Zhou, the tentacle bundle, which had been quiet as a mouse, immediately turned red.
Pei Zhou: ...
Damn it, you useless thing! Turn back, hurry up and turn back!
Xie Huan moved his hand away and told Pei Zhou to do it himself. Sure enough, the tentacles soon turned blue again.
Blue was the color used for celebrations in the Lango Empire, symbolizing happiness and pleasure.
A few days later, Xie Huan solemnly recorded his observations in the electronic log:
[After a genetic mutation, the tentacles that separate from the body change color according to the Host's emotional state.]
[They turn red when angry and blue when happy and relaxed.]
[They turn black when dejected or in a bad mood.]
3.
During the monthly observation report, Xie Huan handed his observation log to his mentor, the only professor in the entire Lango Empire with experience researching the fusion of extraterrestrial genes.
He casually opened a page and questioned Xie Huan's observations. According to his research, the tentacles turning black did not mean the Host was in poor spirits. On the contrary, it meant the Host was extremely aroused.
Xie Huan asked, eager to learn: Aroused?
Mentor: Sexually aroused.
Mentor: What did you do to him?
A short-to-medium-length sweet romance for practice, adapted from an earlier short story I wrote. It's probably about someone who's had a crush for ten years, then another ten years, and boy, can you keep up the act~
Theme: Have the courage to pursue love.
