The sticky sensation beneath their feet had vanished completely. Cold light fell across the young man's fair, delicate face, his lashes casting dense shadows. The searing heat had already faded.
Once the space had transformed completely, Shen Ru became utterly listless.
Only after Liang Yu checked again and again that those grotesque, revolting things had truly disappeared, and that the scene before her wasn't a dream, did she slowly release the breath trapped in her chest.
She was just about to say something when the office door at the far end of the Long Corridor slowly swung open.
Creeeeak-
The grating sound of the door made Liang Yu's breathing falter.
Just as she held her breath and stared at the slowly widening gap, afraid some enormous creature would emerge in the next second, a few soft little tentacles leisurely poked out first.
Liang Yu: "?"
She must have gone insane. She actually thought they were a little cute...
The little tentacles first clung tightly to the doorframe, as though checking something. Seeing that neither of the two people opposite them moved, they gradually grew bolder, slowly stretching their soft bodies outward.
"Tch."
Shen Ru's irritated voice shattered the silence, echoing through the empty Long Corridor like a silver needle plunging into an unguarded heart.
The tentacles startled too, scrambling back behind the door as though fleeing in panic.
Perhaps they were too frantic. They tripped over one another and tangled into a mess. The gap was too narrow, and the excess tender flesh around them became horribly squashed as they retreated.
Liang Yu stared wide-eyed at the trembling octopus tentacles, then at the breathtakingly handsome young man before her.
Oh no...
For a moment, she couldn't tell which one was the monster...
Before Liang Yu could finish her inward commentary,