Da Chu
Da Chu
TAGS
danmei
modern fantasy
supernatural
comedy
fairy tale tone
non human leads
monster of the week
fluff
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A lovestruck North Sea kraken — currently working as a human painter — courts the monster hunter whose job is to kill things like him, one date and one tentacle at a time.
Chinese Title: 大触
Pinyin: Dà Chù
Common English Title: Da Chu / Great Touch / The Great Tentacle
❤️ Main Relationship
沈亦清 (Shen Yiqing) × 沈曜 (Shen Yao)
✨ Introduction
Da Chu is Lu Tianyi's fairy-tale-flavored monster rom-com: a string of sweet, self-contained cases wrapped around one impossible courtship. Shen Yiqing is a famous painter — handsome, rich, romantic, and secretly a kraken, one of the last great sea monsters of the deep, who has spent centuries falling in love with a human legend: the monster-hunting family that kills his kind. Shen Yao is the family's best hunter in generations — soft-spoken, round-cheeked, and able to bench-press most of the monsters he exterminates.
Shen Yiqing's courtship strategy is to be human so convincingly that his beloved never has a reason to draw his sword: dates, paintings, tenderness, and an iron grip on his own tentacles. Around them, the city keeps producing small supernatural incidents — each case a miniature story with its own monster side couple — and beneath the fluff, a buried thread of childhood memory connects the painter and the hunter far earlier than either of them knows.
🌏 Background
The world is a modern city with the monsters of Western myth living quietly at its edges: krakens in the deep, rusalkas in the rivers, night hags in the suburbs. The Shen family of monster hunters polices them with old contracts and older weapons, and Shen Yao grew up as its most dutiful blade. The novel runs as a unit drama — monster-of-the-week episodes that are really about loneliness, appetite, and coexistence — while the main romance advances in the gaps between cases, and the slow reveal of a childhood meeting rewires everything Shen Yao believes about monsters.
🎭 Themes & Tone
- Loving the thing you were raised to kill
- Performance and authenticity: what it costs to pass as human, and when to stop
- Cozy monster-of-the-week structure with side-couple payoffs
- Food, art, and touch as love languages (tentacles included)
- Childhood memory as the hidden hinge of the romance
Tone: gentle, whimsical, and sweet, with rare, brief dips into darkness that make the fluff land harder.
👥 Main Characters
- 沈亦清 (Shen Yiqing) — a celebrated painter and ancient kraken; romantic, devoted, and desperately committed to seeming harmless
- 沈曜 (Shen Yao) — the Shen family's star monster hunter; soft-looking, terrifyingly strong, kind to a fault
- The Shen family — hunters bound by generations of contracts and very normal family dinners
- The case-of-the-week monsters — lonely, hungry, and usually more sympathetic than the humans who summon them
🎬 Adaptations
- Audio Drama: Ongoing (released through the second season's ending theme as of the latest public update)
🔥 Why It’s Popular
- The rare pure fluff entry in the supernatural danmei shelf — no abuse, no misunderstanding marathon, just a kraken trying his best
- Shen Yiqing became a fandom favorite "love-brained" gong: powerful beyond measure, absolutely whipped
- Unit-drama cases give every side monster a full miniature romance of their own
- Lu Tianyi's signature warm, chatty slice-of-life prose at its most polished
- A comfort reread for fans of monster romance without the angst tax
📚 Reader Notes
Beginner-friendly: ★★★★★
Angst level: ★☆☆☆☆
Plot complexity: Low
Romance visibility: High
Mystery focus: Low
Recommended for readers who want a soft, funny monster romance where the biggest suspense is when the hunter will finally notice the tentacles.
✍️ Author
吕天逸 (Lu Tianyi)
A Jinjiang author specializing in sweet, comedic danmei across fantasy, campus, and entertainment-circle settings; her work is known for warm banter, gentle pacing, and reliable happy endings.
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