My Ex-Boyfriend Came Back as a Ghost to Get Back Together

A sweet girl who says one thing and means another x a brooding, ghostly boyfriend who was forced into becoming a clingy yandere

Su Lin is mild-mannered, and her family has fallen on hard times. By sheer luck, she lands a boyfriend from an outrageously wealthy family. He's handsome and great in bed, and has been supporting her lavishly since their school days. The only problem is his absurdly intense possessiveness.

He checks her phone, makes her report her whereabouts, and has even beaten up her admirers behind her back.

Su Lin's friends tell her this is an unhealthy relationship.

So Su Lin texts her boyfriend to break up.

On a gloomy, damp, rainy night, her ex-boyfriend returns, seven days after their breakup.

His white shirt is stained with blood, his jeans are torn, and rain has soaked his short bangs.

He wraps her in a suffocatingly damp embrace, tears wetting her neck. His voice cuts through the rainy night, cold as ice: "I won't accept this breakup."

Su Lin is too softhearted. She lets him inside, dries his hair, and looks into his damp eyes, feeling a little guilty. "Th-then let's not break up for now. Let's just call it a trial period."

But it seems the breakup frightened her boyfriend. His possessiveness grows ever stronger.

Sometimes she wakes in the middle of the night to find him still watching her from beside the bed, as if he doesn't need to sleep. When she checks the camera while she's out, she sees that he doesn't eat at all when she's away.

His body is always icy cold, without a trace of warmth. Even when their nights together grow most passionate, she feels a bone-deep chill.

It seems Su Lin is being affected by her boyfriend too. She often feels dizzy and sees spots, and her friends keep getting pestered by fortune-tellers trying to sell them protective charms.

Then one day, she sees a news report.

On the day she sent the breakup text, her boyfriend's car crashed on a mountain road. There were no survivors.

Holding her phone, Su Lin looks at the pale hand clasped around her waist and belatedly realizes:

Her partner might not be entirely normal...

*

Some time later, a string of bizarre incidents takes place on campus.

Her boyfriend sleeps with his head on Su Lin's lap, while she pores over books on folklore and ghosts, researching how to keep an unknown creature supplied for the long term.

Su Lin: Maybe I'm not exactly a good person either...

One-on-one romance, both leads' first time, happy ending.

80,000 words. A little twist. They choose each other. The heroine grows over the course of the story.

Theme: Strive for what you want.