He symbolizes terror, despair, and might. He is the shadow of fear, the embodiment of the uncanny, standing above the stars and gazing down upon the world.
Until he meets her, and a rose of love blooms in his inhuman heart.
She looks up at the sky. Countless stars shimmer, crossing worlds and sweeping past the firmament. Above the stars, he loves her.
Eternal Nightmare
Sang Ke transmigrates into a book. This world is on the brink of a resurgence of ghosts and monsters, and the city where she lives bears the brunt of it, trapped in a strange realm beneath the shadow of the S-class monster Nightmare.
As a cannon-fodder character, she hopes to cling to the male and female leads and leave the city, so she can live a few more years. But in the end, she discovers that they have no way out.
Sang Ke stands there, her face pale. The familiar faces smile at her, their lips curling in exactly the same way, sending a chill down her spine.
They look just like the 'brother' she never had.
At some point, the city has already become part of it, including everyone and every monster within.
Her teammates, too.
"Keke, where are you going?"
"Keke, it's nine o'clock. Why aren't you home yet?"
"It's all right. Your brother's here to pick you up."
[The future you want, I can give you all of it.]
[Everything you dream of is already mine.]
[Go to sleep, go to sleep. In your dreams, there will be me, and you.]
Endless black fog envelops her, whispering softly in her ear.
The Deep Sea's Fall
Xi Yu is an obscure reporter who unexpectedly receives an invitation. Hoping to write a substantial article, she decides to board the mysterious cruise ship Deep Sea.
They say it hides the secret to eternal youth, and that countless socialites and wealthy families gather there.
Then she rescues a boy and discovers that the truth is not so simple.
The elusive staff, the dark red steaks that make you younger when you eat them, and the pitiful boy clinging to her with his tentacles.
Lightning flashes as the cruise ship sails alone toward the dark sea. Countless enormous tentacles burst from the water, wrapping around the ship.
[Eat me, and live forever with me.]
Like a Shadow
Zhou Ye's shadow disappears. People without shadows don't live long.
Desperate, she believes an online folk remedy and makes herself a shadow.
Until one day, her shadow moves on its own.
[We will never be apart. I will follow you like a shadow.]
The Human Chair
Bai Banxia is a gaming streamer whose favorite hobby is collecting ergonomic chairs.
She abandons each chair after using it for a while, until one day, a fan sends her one.
She loves this chair. Unlike before, she can't bear to part with it.
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She is a fickle woman, changing boyfriends one after another, each relationship shorter than the last. Every night, a vicious, resentful voice rings in her ears. Whenever she wakes, her whole body aches.
Later, she realizes that the voice haunting her midnight nightmares sounds like her first ex-boyfriend, who died long ago.
[I wish I could stay with Xia Xia forever. If I die, I want to become the thing Xia Xia loves most, and stay by your side forever.]
Bai Banxia, her face pale, picks up a knife and walks toward the chair she can't bear to part with.
P.S. 1. More stories to be added.
2. A series of stories featuring nonhuman characters, with obsessive, corrupted characters and a female lead who isn't forceful. The male leads aren't human, they're all messed up, and there's some coercion.
3. The ending may be a forced HE or a willing HE, but either way, it counts as an HE to me. Consider that your content warning.
Blurb written on 2024.4.23 and saved as a screenshot.
Theme: In all the world, there is always one thing that belongs only to you.
