A deadpan, unconventional thinker x a self-loathing, gloomy nonhuman who crawls around in the shadows
Ke Ziqing decides to break up with her current boyfriend. He's just too clingy.
At first, things are perfectly harmonious between them. But as time goes on, Ke Ziqing realizes her boyfriend is like a lunatic. He practically wants to gouge out his own eyes and glue them onto her.
What she eats, what she wears, which coworkers she chats with at work, which friends she sees a movie with on the weekend... Even if she just gets a haircut, he'll investigate the barber's family history for three generations before he's satisfied.
But every time Ke Ziqing tries to point out the problem, her boyfriend immediately drops to his knees and apologizes
Then refuses to change.
After a while, she decides their relationship has reached its end.
"Let's end things between us."
The words come out more easily than she expected. Ke Ziqing leaves her boyfriend... her ex-boyfriend, to cross the street.
"Screech, Bam!"
She turns around and sees that her ex-boyfriend has been hit by a car and sent flying.
"So your ex-boyfriend died on the spot in a car accident?" the police officer in front of her asks.
"That's right," Ke Ziqing nods. "He wasn't breathing, and his heart had stopped."
"...Then why did you say your ex-boyfriend broke into your home?"
"That's the problem. He came back from the dead."
Several black tentacles rise behind the clueless police officer, swaying gently toward Ke Ziqing.
She'd better find an expert, she thinks.
Wen Li's name came from a human woman. After going to endless lengths to meet her again, he resolves to follow her forever.
He's terrified she'll leave him, but it seems he has still disappointed her.
Until Wen Li is left kneeling on the ground, a wretched mess, his body and limbs trembling in a chaotic mix of pain and desire.
"There's quite a difference between being a ghost and being alive," she says, finally moving close to him and stroking his cheek. "It's kind of amazing."
Reader's Guide:
1. Female-led romance with no role reversal. The male lead is sexually inexperienced. The female lead has had other partners, but they were all one-night stands.
2. The male lead is extremely gloomy and obsessive.
3. A second male lead has unrequited feelings for the female lead, who doesn't know about them.
Theme: Live positively
