The Secret I Keep from My Husband

I think I might be a monster.

.

I am a real, genuine man, no question about it.

But when I woke up one day, there was a child beside me.

The child said I had given birth to him.

At first, I didn't believe it at all.

It was impossible. I was certain I was a man.

I went to the hospital for a full physical. I wasn't intersex, and I didn't have any strange organs. I was definitely a man!

Maybe the child was mentally ill.

I took him to the hospital, and after the doctor confirmed it, I breathed a sigh of relief and told him to stop saying such strange things.

But little by little, I seemed to develop strange abilities.

At first, I only wanted to win a doll from a claw machine.

Then I actually won one.

After that, I wanted concert tickets, a lottery ticket, an invitation to a party...

And I got every single thing I wanted.

It seemed that whatever I wished for came true.

Until one day, my skin turned blue...

Maybe there really is something wrong with me.

Later, I met my husband.

I tried to hide the strange things happening to me, but they kept multiplying until they became impossible to conceal.

I thought I couldn't keep hiding them any longer.

Just as I was about to tell my husband everything before our wedding, ready to face his fearful gaze and hear him say we were through...

The hands that had always been cold and dry beneath his sleeves slowly turned into tentacles and wrapped around my waist...

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Wei Yin had always been searching for his