We Agreed to Be Parents Together, but He Took Off First

[Angsty melodrama. Subscribe and read with caution. If you feel uncomfortable, please stop reading promptly. Do not make personal attacks against the author.]

I realized something was off about the boyfriend I'd been dating for four years.

For our fourth anniversary, we went diving by the seaside. Not long before, he'd told me he would reveal a secret that day.

Under the sea, my boyfriend was holding my hand one second. The next, he suddenly turned into a gigantic "octopus."

I never planned on having an interspecies relationship.

But after giving it a lot of thought, I decided to accept him as my boyfriend.

Then one day, my boyfriend wanted us to have a child. I tried to treat it as some kind of bedroom fantasy and told him we couldn't have one.

He asked, "If it were possible, would A-He be willing?"

As if possessed, I agreed...

The next day, he told me dejectedly that our child was gone. His body couldn't carry a child, so he could only lay eggs inside my body...

It's true that I love him very much, but I couldn't accept such a bizarre demand, so I ran away.

A few days later, in a hotel, tentacles covered the ceiling of my room and dragged me into the sea to force me to lay eggs:

I cried and begged him.

He told me that because I hadn't kept my promise, he was already very unhappy with me. But because he loved me so much, he could forgive me for breaking my promise, and even for leaving without saying a word...

On the condition that I stop spoiling the mood...

Read this first:

1. A melodramatic HE. The seme is a Lovecraftian nonhuman. Pregnancy and childbirth → early childcare → life under the sea → raising the child.

2. Before his lover runs away: the seme is possessive. Afterward: obsessive, dark, and mentally unhinged.

3. The uke suffers a mental breakdown and has self-harm thoughts.

4. Anything in this story concerning "special abilities" (the "octopus" taking human form), "mutation," the two of them settling on a deserted island, or pregnancy is all made up.

5. No plot, just romance.

6. Content warnings have been provided. If you feel uncomfortable while reading, please stop promptly. Do not make personal attacks against the author.

The cover image is from Moxiang Banxia. Thank you~

Theme: Love can overcome every hardship