Claiming You and Pulling You into My Arms

[Reborn yandere ghost pursues his wife / post-marriage sweet story with obsessive, possessive love] After the Empress Dowager passed away, the whole nation ceased all performances. Drums and clappers fell silent. Her father, the head of an opera troupe, was deeply troubled. Hoping to ease his burden, Cheng Xueyi decided to marry the son of a wealthy salt merchant. Once the wedding date was set, the opera troupe reopened. A beauty danced with flowing water sleeves, her face pale as frost, her brows like distant mountains, her eyes full of feeling. In an ink-wash singing style, she performed a scene from The Peony Pavilion. She had just reached the line, "What a day, what a lovely scene," when she was astonished to find that only one audience member remained in the private seats below the stage. Gu Qilin was the heir to a princely household and a brilliant top-ranked candidate in the palace examinations. He was as refined as an orchid and as radiant as moonlight. Before this, Cheng Xueyi had never met him in person. But for some reason, the man's gaze on her was so heavy and clinging that it made her scalp tingle and sent chills down her spine. That night, Cheng Xueyi had a dream. In it, a man of supreme imperial authority walked toward her with steady steps. The clear clink of the beads hanging before his forehead, as well as the sound of chains clashing from some unknown place, was so vivid it made her blood run cold. "Jiaojiao." "Jiaojiao." "Jiaojiao." The emperor kept calling her by her pet name. His voice was gentle, low, and extremely pleasant to hear, yet it carried a ghostly, sinister quality. His tone was almost pleadingly possessive. "Don't run away again, all right?" Cheng Xueyi woke with a start. The next day, an imperial edict arranging her marriage arrived at the Cheng residence, making her break out in a cold sweat. - After thwarting the marriage Cheng Xueyi had originally been meant to have, Gu Qilin followed all the formal betrothal rites and offered a dowry of ten million taels, ensuring she had a wedding of the utmost splendor. Until their wedding night. The man's breath mingled with hers, clinging and oppressive. Cheng Xueyi was drenched in tears, a fear that threatened to swallow her whole rising in her heart. After she fell asleep, she finally remembered everything from her previous life In her previous life, Gu Qilin had also been her husband. But their marriage had come about by an accidental twist of fate. He married her out of a sense of responsibility, and after she entered the princely residence, she endured endless scorn because of her lowly background. She lived cautiously and miserably. Gu Qilin also had a childhood sweetheart who was like the moon in his heart. He found her before his enthronement ceremony. Cheng Xueyi had no intention of entering the imperial household again. Before the decree naming her empress had been issued, she asked him for a divorce. Everything that happened afterward connected to the nightmare she had experienced before. - In his previous life, Gu Qilin had swept away abuses and revived the moral order. He was hailed as a wise ruler of his age. But after the empress passed away, rumors spread that he had shut himself away in the palace to seek immortality, and from then on he neglected state affairs. One day, the chancellor came to consult him on an urgent matter. The palace servants searched everywhere for the emperor without success. At last, they found his body in a secret chamber, his arms wrapped around the empress, who had turned to bone. After being reborn, the wife he had missed until he was driven mad was right before his eyes. Gu Qilin's obsession with her grew by the day. But his wife seemed like a different person. She no longer endured everything in silence. She took revenge whenever she was wronged and lived as she pleased. Gu Qilin also wanted Cheng Xueyi to live happily and without worries in this life. However, his wife was skilled at singing opera and even more skilled at putting on an act. After they married, she was gentle and attentive, never letting Gu Qilin see the fear and resentment in her eyes. So when the servants told him in terror that Cheng Xueyi had disappeared, his mind went blank for a moment. After Cheng Xueyi successfully escaped, Gu Qilin learned two things, each of which drove him nearly mad with frenzy First, the childhood sweetheart who had saved and accompanied him when he was young was actually his wife. Second, in this life his wife was no longer frail and sickly, and she was carrying his child. (1) The male lead appears to be an aloof, lofty beauty, but is actually ambitious. He is a genuinely yandere ghost, disturbingly obsessive and unhinged in both lives. If that's not your thing, don't read. The leads are devoted to each other, and there is no harem. (2) In her previous life, the heroine was a bright, sunny girl who accidentally entered the imperial household. In this life, she is all about making others pay, and refuses to bottle things up or torment herself. Expect satisfying revenge and putting scoundrels in their place. (3) The previous life is a tragic romance of resentment and heartbreak. After rebirth, it becomes a sweet story with a strong flavor of possessive love, including tropes like the husband winning his wife back, mistaking someone for his true love, and a pregnant wife running away. (4) Both leads are reborn. The male lead is reborn first, while the female lead gradually recovers her memories of her previous life as the story unfolds. [The original blurb was written in 2022 and revised in March 2026. A screenshot has been saved for the record. Please do not steal its ideas or falsely claim ownership.] Theme: A peaceful nation and a prosperous people; calm seas and clear rivers.