I Cuddled Up to My Bodyguard, Then Found Out He Wasn't Human

All his life, Zhu Xichi has never had a close friend, let alone been in love, because he is sick.

He's allergic to any contact with other people. Get too close and he starts to hyperventilate; touch his skin and it turns red and breaks out in hives. In severe cases, he even gets nauseous, faints, and could die...

He thought he would never be able to get close to anyone and would have to accept a lonely life until the end.

Until one day, he spent a fortune to save a poor, utterly clueless little loser.

The little loser, Chou Qi, said he wanted to repay him and stubbornly refused to leave, so Zhu Xichi decided to see his kindness through and hired him as his personal bodyguard.

He even laid down a rule: "No matter what happens, you must never touch me."

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The first time Chou Qi touched him, it was an accident.

After reflexively pushing him away, Zhu Xichi realized that the skin Chou Qi had touched was completely unharmed.

He pulled him back in shock. "Wait, um... let me touch you again!"

And so Zhu Xichi opened the door to a whole new world.

He made up for never holding hands with the other kids on school outings.

He made up for having to hug himself when it was too cold in the mountains.

He made up for not being able to check his temperature by pressing foreheads together when he had a fever.

Zhu Xichi tried every way he could to cuddle up to Chou Qi, just like someone with touch starvation.

Chou Qi was honest and decent, so Zhu Xichi wasn't worried at all that he'd get the wrong idea.

But oddly enough, ever since he became obsessed with cuddling up to Chou Qi, he kept dreaming at night that countless tentacles were wrapped around him. The sensation felt completely real, but when he woke up, everything was as usual.

Zhu Xichi: Weird. It must be my imagination.

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Zhu Xichi had seriously wondered why Chou Qi was the only one who could touch him.

But Chou Qi looked perfectly ordinary. There was nothing special about him.

Until one day, Chou Qi thought he was going on a blind date and scooped him up in his arms,

then leaped out of a window on the 38th floor.

Zhu Xichi stared blankly as a pair of eerie black wings slowly unfurled behind Chou Qi.

Countless indescribable dark things wound their way out, wrapping around Zhu Xichi's hands and feet inch by inch.

It was exactly like his dreams.

Zhu Xichi's face changed dramatically. "...You, you, you're not human?!"

The corners of Chou Qi's lips lifted slightly. His pupils were deep and greedy as his black wings closed around Zhu Xichi, trapping him, and he planted a string of kisses that allowed no refusal.

"What about it? Can't non-humans cuddle?"

A Great Old One who plays the honest man while devouring his prey x a slow-on-the-uptake but flirtatious young rich heir

Theme: Even if the world abandons you, someone will always be there to catch you.