The Ex-Boyfriend I Dumped Ruined the Plot

1v1, SC, HE, an honest man x a madman

"When the predetermined tracks come crashing down, the seemingly unshakable world splits open in the darkness."

Jiang Guanyi returned after the plot went off the rails.

When she saw Ling Ce again, he still looked restrained, composed, and so coolly immaculate it was almost unreal. He was unfailingly tactful and polite, yet he would casually draw her into his orbit, and in shadowy corners with no way out, unleash all his loss of control and restraint, pressing his burning breath against her neck.

From long-buried memories to the present moment, when what was lost had been found again, Jiang Guanyi had always thought Ling Ce was wonderful.

He was gentle and calm, like a wind suspended in the air, never changing from then until now. She even thought that once all the shackles and restrictions around them were gone, they could be together again.

But she did not know that amid this seemingly tranquil reunion, someone had long since become incurably ill.

On the night she packed her bags again, ready to cross the strait and travel far across the ocean, a lock that had been silent for years was engaged.

His past yielding and forbearance had been nothing more than a precarious house of cards built at the edge of losing control. The helpless version of himself from two years ago, forced to watch Jiang Guanyi turn and leave, was Ling Ce's deepest shame, etched into his very bones.

In the dim light, the man's cool fingers clamped tightly around her wrist. With his mask stripped away, his eyes held a terrifying, blood-red obsession.

"Why are you still leaving?"

His voice was choked with tears, with the trembling desperation of a caged beast.

"Stop trying to fool me with those pathetic excuses."

"Don't think you can leave me again."

(The male lead really is ill. He takes medication, and he gets better.)