How Do I Deal with Becoming a Tentacle Monster?

The complete version is available exclusively on Jinjiang. We take no responsibility for pirated copies. Weibo: @Qianqian Code Machine ○ Childhood friends, pseudo-siblings / long-planned schemes ○ Scent obsession X skin hunger syndrome Blurb: An unknown virus has leaked from the world's largest life sciences research institute, infecting numerous researchers. The specific symptoms are unknown. The mechanism of action is unknown. The dangers are unknown. Yuan Qingyue was congratulating herself that her older brother, who worked at the institute, was away on a business trip and hadn't been infected. Then she discovered that she herself, as a member of a project team collaborating with the laboratory, had unfortunately been infected. Some infected patients slept for three days and nights straight. Grass sprouted from some patients' heads. A single eyeball grew on the backs of others' heads. Yuan Qingyue grew tentacles. She lowered her head to look at the somewhat sticky, limp tentacles growing out of her body, but all she could think was that her childhood dream of growing three hands seemed to have come true. In fact, her dream had come true in excess, because she seemed to have eight hands now. On top of that, she seemed to be extremely sensitive to certain scents, and so obsessed with them that she had to breathe them in a few times to feel comfortable. It wasn't until she saw her brother return from his business trip that she realized the scent coming from him was particularly strong. "Big Brother, you smell so good. Let me take a whiff." Tang Zhouheng leaned closer, letting her breathe in his scent. Yuan Qingyue expressionlessly hugged Tang Zhouheng and took several deep breaths. Her tentacles waved in the air, reaching uncontrollably beneath his clothes. Sated by the scent, she let out a blissful sigh, completely unaware that the person she was holding down had tears at the corners of his eyes and was trembling uncontrollably. * Everyone knew that Tang Zhouheng was a doting older brother. He took care of every aspect of Yuan Qingyue's daily life, and had always been the one standing in front of her as she grew up. But no one knew that when Yuan Qingyue's tentacles touched his skin, his mind was filled with Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, Qingyue, Qingyue, Qingyue, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love. I love Qingyue. I love Qingyue's scent, I love Qingyue's warmth, I love Qingyue hugging me, I love Qingyue kissing me. We're the closest people in the world to each other. We know each other's one and only secret. So, Qingyue, don't just love my scent. Could you love me, too? [Emotionless tentacled heroine X scheming, devoted husband-type siscon hero] *Emotionless type: taciturn, heartless, expressionless. The heroine is a cute, cold-faced little thing QvQ. *Thanks to little dog Beikeni for the character card fanart. It's so lovely. Content warnings: 1. Both leads are sexually inexperienced, happy ending, and the hero is completely pure in both body and mind, with only one partner. 2. The hero and heroine grew up together, relying on each other since childhood. They're not typical childhood friends, but more like brother and sister. 2. Neither the heroine nor the hero is exactly normal! This is the product of indulging my kinks QvQ. A slow-burn, everyday-life story focused on the two of them, a sweet little romance... Very slow burn. 3. Not cosmic horror, not nonhuman romance (the heroine is human, after all), no sanity loss. An alternate future, with my own take on the future setting. 4. This is a boy-girl romance. The author does not accept any claims that it is a psychological gender-bender romance QAQ, so please stop asking. The blurb was screenshotted on 2024.03.30. All characters and plot for this story were planned by mid-2024, with screenshots and screen recordings as proof. My next novel will be I Found Out I Had a Boyfriend After I Died. If you're interested, feel free to add it to your collection. ○ Pseudo-incest, widower, secret male crush ○ Food-first, oblivious ghost girl X scheming, obsessive, gloomy older brother Xu Chuyao is a young female ghost. She can't remember how long she's been dead or anything about her life before death. One day, a man moved into the empty house where she often stayed. On the first night after he moved in, Xu Chuyao rubbed her hands together, ready to scare him. Then she saw several photographs on a bedside table that had once been bare. The girl in the pictures looked exactly like her. Right afterward, she heard the man holding a nightgown and softly calling her name. It was only when she heard his suggestive panting that she realized she and this man must have been very close when she was alive. Xu Chuyao didn't know how the man had found out she existed, or how he could see and touch her. The moment Xu Yize saw her, he held her and cried for what felt like an eternity. Before the blazing yang energy radiating from him could make Xu Chuyao faint from its delicious scent, she timidly asked, "Hello, um, were you my boyfriend when I was alive?" With tears still hanging at the corners of his eyes, Xu Yize froze for a moment, then smiled. "Yes, Yaoyao. You're the one I love." Xu Chuyao had lost her memories, but Xu Yize smelled so good that every night she had to burrow into his arms and breathe him in. The instinctive familiarity of their physical closeness made her even more certain that they must have been deeply in love. And so, the human and the ghost began living together in shameless bliss. One day, she heard Xu Yize's mother say over the phone, "Yize, your sister's death anniversary is coming up. Your father and I will come over in a couple of days so we can visit her grave together." Xu Yize replied softly, "All right." "Your sister's death anniversary? You have a younger sister? Did she pass away, too?" Xu Yize held her. A flicker of surprise passed through his eyes. "Your sister means you. You're younger than me, so Mom and Dad are used to calling you that." "Oh..." Xu Chuyao nodded, then buried her chilly face against his chest and took another deep breath. Little sister, why did you leave me like this? Even in the third year after her death, Xu Yize still often thought this. He'd gone to every length to find her soul, but never expected her to mistake him for her lover. He craved the closeness he had never been able to have with her, so he thought he might as well go along with the misunderstanding. After all, they would be together forever. But he hadn't expected Xu Chuyao to discover his lie after all. Theme: Love and peace.