My Vengeful Ghost Husband Stares at Me from Beside the Bed Every Night

A gentle, devoted wife who shines like the high moon and is kind to everyone x an honest man in life, a crazed vengeful ghost in death Li Mu and his husband have a marriage of convenience, and their life together is plain and simple. Though they aren’t deeply in love, they barely even have sex. But Qu Yanchao always strictly fulfills the responsibilities expected of him. He plans everything in advance, without fail: their wedding anniversary, his birthday, every holiday. His friends always say his life is dull and boring. Li Mu just smiles gently and says he’s never been one to chase thrills. He’s a fish accustomed to shallow water, and any storm would only throw his life into chaos. He doesn’t need a passionate, earth-shaking romance, or a husband who’s smooth with his words. Life is short. All he wants is to live quietly until he dies. Then, one day, an accident takes his husband’s life. Li Mu’s life is turned upside down against his will. On the seventh night after his husband’s death, a blurry figure begins appearing in his dreams. The chilling, gloomy figure pins Li Mu to the bed and restrains his hands and feet. No matter how much Li Mu cries and screams, he refuses to let go. Li Mu wakes in a panic at dawn, drenched in cold sweat. When he looks in the mirror, he finds a mess of mottled bite marks all over his chest. He frantically hides the marks and tries to convince himself it was just an illusion, just a nightmare. His husband has only been dead for seven days. How could he do something like that with another man? Li Mu feels terribly ashamed and doesn’t dare tell anyone. But the nightmare happens again and again. For the next half month, he’s trapped in those dreams every night, making love until they’re both spent. His body is thoroughly ravaged, more than he and his husband had done together in an entire year. Li Mu can only install security cameras at home. After another night of lovemaking, Li Mu opens the surveillance footage, still drenched in cold sweat. He sees a figure standing by his bed in the dim, pitch-black bedroom. A car’s headlights sweep past the window, briefly illuminating the figure’s face. At last, he sees the man who has repeatedly invaded his dreams. It’s his dead husband. Li Mu holds his breath in terror, then watches the shadow raise its head and stare straight through the camera at him. He walks up to the camera, looming close to the screen. After a long moment, he lets out a low laugh. “Mu Mu, you’re so cute.” “Do you know? I’ve always wanted to fuck you like I have these past few days.” Li Mu is horrified. Only now does he realize that he never truly knew his husband at all. Reading guide: ① Short story. ② The bottom is extremely accepting and gentle, with a slight everyone-loves-him quality. The top is unhinged, a completely deranged ghost after death. ③ Both leads’ first and only, one-on-one, happy ending. Theme: Never stop striving