The Strange One

[The blurb and setting may be tweaked before the story begins, but the general direction won't change]

-Have you ever heard the story of the monkey's paw?

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At some point, Xiao Wei began to sense that something was wrong.

At school, on the subway, on the deserted path home, in his adoptive parents' house, in his room...

Strange, sinister, damp, clammy eyes seemed to watch him everywhere.

At the same time, he began finding countless trails of soft-bodied creatures crawling through his room every day.

Before all this began, the only unusual thing he had done was lend a helping hand to the madman downstairs, someone everyone despised.

The year Xiao Wei lost his parents, his adoptive parents lost their only biological son.

He and his adoptive parents buried their loved one, laying him to rest beneath the earth. But not long after the funeral, his adoptive brother, who had already died, came back.

No one noticed his sudden return, not even his adoptive brother himself. It was as if he had always been at home and had never died.

No one except Xiao Wei.

His adoptive brother was a monster wearing human skin.

He was terrified.

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With strict household rules and adoptive parents who were always arguing, the house was often shrouded in a stifling gloom. Under this immense pressure, his adoptive brother only grew more exceptional: disciplined, courteous, mature, and considerate, someone to envy.

Little by little, Xiao Wei forgot the fear he'd felt as a child and came to see him as the only refuge in the family.

He didn't notice that as he grew up, his adoptive brother's gaze grew increasingly strange, just like the crawling marks that appeared in his room every day: sticky and wet...

Nonhuman top × human bottom

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