After a Doctor from a Sweet Romance Finds a Terrifying Boss

Shen Xu is a doctor NPC in a sweet romance novel, whose daily job is to travel between different sweet romance worlds and treat the protagonists, while being forced to watch them be lovey-dovey.

One day after work, he finds a boy on the verge of death in a dark alley.

Shen Xu takes the boy home and matter-of-factly bandages his wounds, only for the boy to "hug" him of his own accord, rubbing "tears" against his neck.

So Shen Xu strokes the boy's hair and, imitating the standard practice of the employers in his romance novels, gives him a perfunctory goodnight kiss, apparently not noticing the shadow of writhing tentacles on the wall.

A week later, Shen Xu finds a "girl" in a medieval dress, injured in the lower body.

While examining the injury, the "girl" suddenly reaches out and presses Shen Xu's face against their belly.

Through the elaborate layers of the dress, Shen Xu hears a strange chewing sound coming from the "girl's" abdomen.

Shen Xu stands up. His gloved hand parts the "girl's" dress, and with an unchanged expression, he shows them the cold instruments behind him. "Don't worry. I'm good at prenatal checkups too."

Three days later, Shen Xu finds a man in a wheelchair outside his home, with empty trouser legs.

The man stares fixedly at him. Under Shen Xu's gaze, his deformed body turns into a writhing, indescribable mass, its many compound eyes glinting and pulsing.

Shen Xu pauses with a hand on the wheelchair, then turns around and pushes the man back outside.

"Sorry, I don't have time today. My employer asked me to take care of his mermaid's tail."

But this time, Shen Xu doesn't seem so lucky. The strange mass latches onto him, quite literally.

Shen Xu: "...If you don't believe me, come with me to my employer's house." His calm tone is as irritating as ever.

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Shen Xingli is a name Shen Xu gave him after they returned from the home of that fussy mermaid. Shen Xu gave him a name and allowed him to stay in an empty room on the second floor.

On the night he moved in, Shen Xingli crawled around the entire house in the dark, coiled on Shen Xu's ceiling and watched him for most of the night, then gave him a face-to-face jumpscare when he woke up.

Shen Xu expressionlessly takes out gauze and medicine. "Come here."

Shen Xingli obediently sits down and waits for Shen Xu to bandage his wound.

"Even if you want to scare people, you don't have to actually hurt yourself. Or do you just like having me bandage your wounds? You don't need to get hurt for that either. You can learn from my employers."

Shen Xu only meant to get the little monster to settle down, but it misunderstood him.

So one day, when Shen Xu gets home from work, a fussy little mermaid is lying on the carpet, pearls shooting around like bullets, demanding to know why he hasn't built a huge swimming pool.

The next day, when he gets home from work, the little monster is holding a little monster's hand. Right in front of Shen Xu, it strangles the little monster that was trying to bite him, then tearfully accuses Shen Xu of abandoning his wife and child.

The third day, when he gets home from work, the little monster reeks of durian, insisting that he's a pregnant O who needs an A's pheromones to survive, and demanding that Shen Xu bite him.

Shen Xu: "..." He wants to hit someone. His cold, aloof doctor persona is about to crack.

Shen Xingli (crawling around in the dark to his employer's house) (studying under the bed)

Aloof, slow-to-react top X former horror boss turned drama queen bottom. One-on-one, happy ending.

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