Entangled with a Gloomy Monster Man

Synopsis: Ling Qiu, a bottom-tier citizen living in a cyber world, scrapes by doing odd jobs. Unable to afford cybernetic enhancements and with extreme city pollution, she won't live past 30. One rainy night, she picks up a long-limbed man from beside a trash can. His skin is pale, but his face is exceptionally handsome. After hearing about it, her friend messages her: “What kind of person do you just pick up and bring home? What if he’s a bad guy? A pervert?!” Ling Qiu stares coldly at the man on the dining table voraciously stuffing instant noodles into his mouth and gives a twisted smile. It doesn’t matter, she’s no good person either. However, just to be safe, Ling Qiu locks him up. To her surprise, he still escapes. From then on, she frequently receives strange harassing messages.

【Your long hair must look great. Maybe skip the hair salon next month.】

【Just took a shower?】

【Your seductive skills are so proficient. Are you going to sleep with him?】

Looking at these messages, Ling Qiu decisively hacks into the system and video calls the sender directly. The call connects immediately. She only sees a blurry figure, followed by a clatter and hurried fumbling. The call is abruptly hung up. Ling Qiu types: “Already shy? Pervert? ^^”

——Mini Theater——

After spending more time together, Ling Qiu discovers that he knows nothing about sex and lacks common sense in life.

“These are boba pearls,” she tells Him, pointing to the dark things in the milk tea. “Soft, and you can chew them.”

Unsure if He understood, Ling Qiu takes a sip of milk tea, preparing to chew the second pearl. Just then, He leans down and whispers in her ear, “I want to chew the one in your mouth.” Ling Qiu is speechless.

Male lead has a handsome human shell.

Hacker female lead x High offense, low defense monster male lead who gradually becomes a nurturing father figure.

Micro elements of Lovecraftian horror.

※Preemptive pick-up for a similar gloomy ghost story: "Years After My Girlfriend Died"※

Lu Yan Ning never imagined she’d be haunted by a ghost one day.

The entity was gaunt, tall, and seemed to blot out the sky, appearing in her dreams like a nightmare. Countless hands reached for her, pulling her down by the ankle. It whispered icy breaths and moist words in her ear, rustling with unintelligible murmurs.

Doctors diagnosed her with no mental abnormalities. Helpless, Lu Yan Ning continued her life as usual.

Fortunately, apart from the strange dreams, her life wasn't greatly affected. Not until—

She fell in love at first sight with a senior student.

The senior was gentle… The senior’s ears were long… The senior… was very pleasing…

Lu Yan Ning paused, looking up at the twisted, gloomy figure hunched behind the senior.

She finally confirmed she had met a quack doctor.

She finally heard him clearly…

He said, “I found you.”

—

He couldn't remember how long it had been, but he had finally found her, even if not as a living person.

It was the same clear weather years ago when he proposed to her after her college graduation. The proposal went smoothly, and he began preparing for the wedding as he wished.

But he never expected that the sudden appearance of the apocalypse would disrupt all his plans. Even though he tried his best to escape with her, he ultimately watched her die in his arms.

He worked hard for a long time to earn another chance.

He found her, and he found his corresponding self in the same timeline. He began, intentionally or unintentionally… matchmaking them.

That’s how it should have been.

But slowly, he found himself growing jealous, consumed by mad envy.

Everything was exchanged by him, so why? Why wasn't he the one holding her? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? Why?…

—

It was terrifying. That cold, twisted ghost had become her nightmare.

Icy, damp, and sticky—that feeling was everywhere, enveloping her.

Whenever night fell, she heard the ghost whispering in her ear, “Dating him during the day felt good, didn’t it?”

“Tonight, it’s my turn.”

※Preemptive pick-up for a pseudo-incest story: "Brother is Just Brother"※

AB relationship, Male A, Female B, manipulative sister VS despairing brother.

A war turned two originally happy families to ashes, leaving behind only two underage children.

Jiang Shuo held Wu Shi’s hand and told her with the small child in his arms, “From today on, I’m your brother. I’ll take good care of you.”

From childhood to adulthood, Wu Shi spent 80% of her time with Jiang Shuo.

After the war, she went through a trauma period, and it was Jiang Shuo who held her while she called for “Mom”…

During her rebellious phase when she had her first period, Jiang Shuo personally bought sanitary napkins for her…

In her adolescence, her friends started dating, and she subconsciously looked for someone to her standard, just like Jiang Shuo’s…

All along, Wu Shi never felt anything was wrong, until one time, a classmate saw Jiang Shuo picking her up from home.

Her classmate teased her, “Do you call your own boyfriend ‘brother’?”

“What boyfriend…” Wu Shi’s eyes drifted, “Brother is just brother…”

—

Wu Shi was his sister, from a sister sharing misfortunes to an annoying, lying sister, and later a sensible and well-behaved sister…

From the age of sixteen, Jiang Shuo’s world contained only Wu Shi.

He studied desperately, worked multiple part-time jobs, and saved money in every way possible, all to bring Wu Shi from foster care to his side. He didn’t want to hear her crying every time he called.

Later, to earn money, he even stopped studying and worked day and night, the reason being that his sister had grown up and needed her own room.

Over the more than ten years they depended on each other, Jiang Shuo always treated Wu Shi as his own sister…

But one day, he started to lose his grip—

Why, when his sister smiled at that boy, did he wish…

To lock Wu Shi away.

[Emphasis] Scenes of a brother becoming jealous and going mad due to his sister’s flirtations with others.

Content tags: Sweet, Future, Sci-Fi, Regret, Light-hearted, Cyberpunk, Lovecraftian

Ling Qiu? A cute guy if you look at him long enough.

Aspiration: Work hard and strive for happiness.