Chu Jiu had a childhood friend. When they were little, their parents joked about arranging a marriage between them.
Chu Jiu firmly refused: "We're best buddies!"
His childhood friend: "Mm."
Later, they went to school together, graduated, found jobs, and even moved in together. Their parents began giving them increasingly suggestive looks.
Chu Jiu declared with absolute conviction: "We're straight! That's just what best buddies are like, get it?"
His childhood friend: "...Mm."
Then Chu Jiu got into an accident. His normally calm and collected childhood friend broke down as he signed the critical-condition notice, wishing he could die alongside him.
Everyone looked at the pair of lovers facing a tragic parting with pity.
Realizing there'd been a misunderstanding, Chu Jiu, on the brink of death, suddenly sat bolt upright and shouted one last time: "What are you looking at... We... are... brothers!!!"
His childhood friend: "..."
Their friends and family: "..." They could burn that guy to ashes in a crematorium, and his mouth would still be stubborn.
Chu Jiu firmly believed that even though they'd grown up holding hands and had been inseparable for decades, they were both straight best buddies.
Until he was reborn. He opened his eyes at the filming location of a livestreamed parenting variety show, where he met his childhood friend once again.
At first, things seemed normal. But as time went by, he noticed lines of comments slowly appearing above the head of his usually handsome, aloof childhood friend, a cold beauty on a high peak.
[Hold it in. Don't let the tentacles show.]
[Tentacles +1 +1 +1 +1]
[Jiujiu is so cute. I want to fuck him.]
Chu Jiu: !!!
Holy shit, I thought he was straight! My childhood friend is a tentacled monster, and he thinks about my ass every day!!
Tags: Variety show livestream, childhood-friend romance, a tentacled nonhuman with the aloof, repressed seme archetype and his goofy, thick-headed straight uke
(The blurb and title may be adjusted when the story begins.)
Theme: Communicate when problems arise to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings
