After the Mad Dog Dies, He Clings to His Wife

Death could not hold Shen Wangyan back. In another way, he continued to imprison Lin Qi for the rest of his life.

[Nonhuman – pure love – two male leads – sweet on the outside, dark within – lovesick – 1v1 – male ghost – coercion – imprisonment – love at first sight]

Lin Qi should never have gone to that university gala.

After that night, Shen Wangyan set his sights on him. The young master from the capital was ruthless and so possessive it was suffocating. Love at first sight, as Shen Wangyan called it. To Lin Qi, it was only the beginning of a long imprisonment.

He was trapped by that man's side, unable to escape or break free, until he finally carried out a carefully planned escape.

He made it. He fled to a neighboring county, then heard the news: Shen Wangyan had died in a car accident.

Lin Qi thought he would feel relieved. But for that entire week, he wandered around in a daze, unable to name the feelings churning inside him. A photographer, he began carrying his camera across the length and breadth of the country, hoping the vast landscapes and countless miles on the road would carve that man out of his memory.

At first, everything was normal.

But gradually, a shadow began appearing in his photographs. Blurry and distant, like a tiny flaw on the lens. Yet it was there in every picture, following him from the snowy plateaus to the waterways of Jiangnan.

Then the images grew clearer and clearer. The outline took shape, the figure became distinct, and at last came a face he knew better than any other.

Shen Wangyan stood in every photograph he took, watching him silently.

Lin Qi finally understood that some things don't end with death. He had never truly escaped.