After Moving in with a Touch-Starved Tentacle Monster

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Lu Zhige is a research scientist with mild face blindness. Before she leaves for Arctic research, her family arranges a fiancée for her. The woman is a university professor. Though she seems cold as ice, there's an indescribable, distinctive charm in her every movement that wins Lu Zhige's heart.

They immediately exchange contact information and confirm their engagement.

Half a year later, when Lu Zhige finally returns from her research, she gets off the plane and sees her fiancée at the airport, holding a sign with Lu Zhige's English name on it. Her fiancée is usually so busy she can barely keep up, and had clearly said she wouldn't have time to pick her up. Now she stands there looking adorably dazed.

Lu Zhige is overjoyed. She walks over, takes her hand, and smiles sweetly. "Didn't you say you weren't coming? When did you become so romantic?"

Yan Qingshi, who only came to pick up her cousin and has no idea who Lu Zhige is: "?"

But the warm, soft, wonderful feel of their hands clasped together makes her strangely reluctant to let go, even sending a shiver through her. Almost as if possessed, she doesn't release Lu Zhige's hand.

Their romance begins out of nowhere, while Lu Zhige never realizes she has mistaken one person for another:

Every morning, noon, and night, like clockwork, she sends her a message calling her "baby" and checking on her.

She wracks her brains to surprise her on every holiday, even Qingming Festival.

She even works out to get defined abs and a six-pack so her fiancée will like her more...

Yan Qingshi always responds and thanks her, and every time she sends her a 520,000-yuan red envelope to spoil her.

But on the night before their formal engagement ceremony...

Lu Zhige receives a message from an unknown number: "Zhige, I finally got my SIM card replaced! Are you back from the Arctic? I miss you so much! I want to see you!"

Lu Zhige: "?"

Yan Qingshi, helping her try on a Williamson pink diamond ring, looks up at her. "What's wrong? Is the diamond not big enough?"

Lu Zhige: "..."

Later, she finally learns that she mistook someone else for her fiancée. Her real fiancée was supposed to be Yan Qingshi's paternal half-sister?!

There's no way this wedding can go ahead. Trembling, she goes to find Yan Qingshi. The moment she opens the door...

She sees Yan Qingshi sitting quietly at a drug-testing lab bench, with countless specimens preserved in formaldehyde behind her. It's a truly creepy sight.

Even more terrifyingly, eight grotesque tentacles are writhing wildly behind Yan Qingshi, all eagerly facing her. They seem to be saying:

Either marry me and become my wife, or be preserved in formaldehyde as my beloved eternal test subject.

Lu Zhige: QVQ

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Yan Qingshi is a monster. She's known that since childhood, but she also suffers from skin hunger, which makes her avoid people even more.

Then one day she meets Lu Zhige, who reaches out and takes her hand. In that moment, Yan Qingshi's blood boils and her whole body trembles with overwhelming desire. All eight tentacles scream at her to devour Lu Zhige...

Devour her, melt her, and she'll be yours forever.

Theme: Learning to love and be loved through being together.