I Received a Monster's Confession Before We Broke Up

Ever since that voyage, Chi Yu seemed to have attracted the attention of something strange.

Before that, her life was already a complete mess: a boyfriend who had fallen for someone else, and her precarious hold on control of the company...

Chi Yu had naively thought that things couldn't get any worse.

Until an unknown tentacle came crawling out of the drain while she was showering and wrapped around her ankle.

Chi Yu: ...Help.

Similar strange incidents became more and more frequent. No matter how much she washed them, her bedsheets still smelled salty and fishy the next day. The ornamental fish in her aquarium seemed to have developed minds of their own...

Each incident tested her frayed nerves. Finally, after sleepwalking to the seaside for who knew how many times, Chi Yu broke down.

She chose to leave everything behind and run.

After leaving that coastal city, it seemed her life had finally returned to its usual calm.

Thank goodness. If life's only problems were little things like a cheating boyfriend, she was actually pretty lucky.

Just as Chi Yu was getting ready to clean up, say goodbye to her scumbag boyfriend, and start a new chapter in her life, a strange man appeared by her side.

[Chi, Yu]

He pronounced her name one syllable at a time, as strangely as if he were speaking for the first time. Yet his smooth, ethereal voice was more beautiful than any instrument in the world.

[I see you.]

*

At first, when faced with his sudden advances, Chi Yu refused. But as she looked at that flawless face, a brilliant idea suddenly came to her.

She would return everything the scumbag had done to her, just as he had done it, including the heart-rending betrayal.

And this strange man before her was exactly what she'd been waiting for.

*

In a moment of impulse, Chi Yu agreed to a stranger's confession of love so she could get back at her boyfriend for falling for someone else.

At first, he was completely devoted to her. Chi Yu found it awkward, but she was reasonably satisfied.

But gradually, she began to notice something unsettling about him.

He didn't seem quite human.

When she realized her new boyfriend might be something other than human, Chi Yu trembled as she packed her bags in the middle of the night, ready to make a run for it by train.

But just as Chi Yu shut the car door, she heard her boyfriend's familiar voice from the driver's seat.

It was still beautiful, but now its smooth, silky quality sent shivers down her spine. Like a snake.

[Are you going to the train station? I'll take you.]

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