The Yandere Raising Plan: I Won't Stop Even If You Cry

[Dual female leads + power imbalance and control + yandere obsession + possessiveness and keeping someone hidden away + love and hatred intertwined]

The two things Jiang Zhi hates most in life are being controlled and being locked up.

At twenty-three, she's a weed that clawed its way out of a mountain village. She picked herself up and got back to work after crashing her delivery bike four times. She's unapologetically poor and lives life with fierce intensity. After a disastrous blind date with a man fresh out of prison, she angrily posts a video looking for a partner. She thinks it'll attract a few weirdos at most, but instead it brings her a woman who will change her life.

Yun Qibai, twenty-seven, is an iceberg raised by a wealthy family: cool, aloof, and in control of all things romantic, with an age-old desolation in her eyes. Others see Jiang Zhi's disheveled state; she sees the resilience and brokenness deep in her bones. She falls at first sight and never considers turning back.

A high-paying job, a personal interview, clothing allowances, and nursing her through surgery: step by step, she draws Jiang Zhi into her world, gentle, attentive, and meticulous.

Jiang Zhi thinks she's met a benefactor, until she realizes there's a rope hidden inside that tenderness, and a lock concealed in that favoritism.

Jiang Zhi's love means freedom.

Yun Qibai's love means possession.

One instinctively runs away, the other instinctively confines. One wants her to stay, the other wants her to let go.

Tenderness is the most respectable prison; favoritism is the quietest punishment. They heal each other's brokenness, yet also torture one another for the rest of their lives.