The giant octopus was frightened by my reaction. It withdrew its tentacles and went back to the bathroom where it had first stayed.
I sat alone in the living room for a while, watching my popularity keep rising online. At last, I forced myself to calm down and decided to find the person behind it.
I paid for the videos and opened them. Judging from the angle and resolution, they looked like footage secretly recorded by cameras.
But I had been the only person in the house. No one else could have come in.
Even the renovation workers from a while ago had done everything under my watch.
Then Ethan's call suddenly popped up on my phone.
My heart lurched.
The octopus was something he had brought back. Before all of this, he had been the only person entering and leaving that bathroom.
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