Tan Yu was born slow to react. After his childhood friend died in a car accident, he felt no sadness at all, and went on attending school and making friends as usual.
It was just that things never went very smoothly.
No one rode a bicycle to school with him, so he had to get up early and walk a long way by himself to catch the bus.
At school, his homework and books always ended up in the trash. People tripped him as he walked, and even locked him in the bathroom and splashed dirty water on him.
Fortunately, he made a very good friend.
The friend would drive over to pick him up and help him retrieve his exercise books.
Until Tan Yu heard him say to someone else, “What friend? I’m just messing with the idiot. Want to try? You can have him.”
Tan Yu wasn’t very sad. He just thought of his childhood friend, Lu Gui.
He remembered how Lu Gui would ride his bicycle to pick him up and bring his favorite soup dumplings. With Lu Gui there, Tan Yu could follow along behind him without a worry, not having to think about anything.
The cruelty kept piling up, so Tan Yu sought help from everyone he could.
Teacher: “Have you ever considered that this might be your own fault?”
Parents: “You need to try harder to fit in with them. Who would like someone as unpleasant as you?”
Tan Yu hung his head, his mind full of things Lu Gui had said to him in the past.
“You did nothing wrong. Don’t be sad just because other people dislike you.”
“Everything Xiao Yu does is so cute.”
“I like Xiao Yu so much.”
It was only a year after Lu Gui died that Tan Yu seemed to gradually realize that Lu Gui had loved him.
Life went on, but the pain he felt belatedly surged like a tide and broke through Tan Yu’s psychological defenses.
He ran to his childhood friend’s grave and stayed in front of the tombstone all night.
When he came back, everything around him seemed to have changed.
Strange things began happening to the people around Tan Yu.
The person who tripped him broke a leg. The person who splashed dirty water on him nearly drowned. The person who locked him in the storage room was admitted to a psychiatric hospital...
In other words, everyone who had bullied Tan Yu was punished one by one.
No one dared go near him.
Tan Yu was safe again, but he discovered a new problem.
Why did the gaze behind him always follow him like a shadow? Why did he shiver with cold even after taking a hot shower? Why did he wake up with so many red marks on his body?
Tan Yu didn’t know that people’s personalities changed drastically when they became ghosts after death.
He also didn’t know what price he would pay for being haunted by a vengeful ghost.
*Slow-to-react, universally disliked bottom x gentle in life, sinister as a ghost top
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*Note from 2026.8.8
Theme: Love can cross the divide between life and death