We're Not Close? Then What's That Kiss Mark on Your Neck?

A twisted entanglement with her sworn brother.

Forcible possession × yandere × childhood sweethearts × rekindled love

Clear-headed, resilient girl-next-door VS deranged, possessive madman

When Lin Shu was seven, her parents fought over a divorce. Forced to follow her mother to the Zhou family home to make ends meet, she glanced up from the stairs and saw Zhou Yixi looking down at her. He pointed and said, “I want her.”

Thanks to that one pronouncement, she and her mother were allowed to stay. But in their dependent position, she was forced to become the live-in nanny for Zhou Yixi, the family’s golden boy.

Mrs. Zhou saw her as a dose of medicine to treat Zhou Yixi.

Her classmates saw her as a puppy Zhou Yixi couldn't shake off.

Her mother saw her as a tool for gaining a foothold and repaying a debt of gratitude.

And Zhou Yixi, in his twisted mind, saw her as his possession.

“I chose you, so you're mine. Forever. Don't ever think you can escape.”

She thought she'd be free once she got to college, but Zhou Yixi only tightened his grip on the chain around her neck. Desperate to reclaim her peaceful life, Lin Shu was forced to give in to him, only for him to become even more extreme.

“You got home five minutes late.”

“What are you to him? Why were you standing so close?”

“Should I cripple him? Which hand?”

“Or should I kill him?”

She endured it and tried to please him, secretly planning to escape after graduation. But she never expected him to tear her plans apart, or to become so twisted that he would even target the people around her.

At last, Lin Shu could bear it no longer and screamed,

“Zhou Yixi, you psycho! You're insane! I hate you so much. I'll hate you for the rest of my life!”

“Is that so?” Zhou Yixi pinched her chin. “It's fine if you hate me. You've hated me ever since you were seven, and you're still right here by my side...”

“Isn't that right?”

“Lin Shu.”