Anyone Whose Husband Keeps Dying Knows

[Boys’ Love] “Everything about my married life makes me sick. The sticky feel of the medicine on my fingers when I put it in my husband’s milk in the morning, the crossbow I set up on the stairs jamming, the revolver I keep under my pillow happening to land on an empty chamber when I shoot at the monster beside me in bed, or the gas detonator suddenly malfunctioning at home while my husband is asleep and I’m out grocery shopping...” Bai Wei sits quietly across from the therapist, picking at his fingers. Therapist: “Wait. Are you sure you’re talking about your married life?” “Actually, my marriage used to be perfectly normal. Everything went wrong after my husband crawled out of his grave.” Bai Wei’s gaze is vacant. “He’d died perfectly normally once, like everyone does.” Therapist: “...Did you kill your husband?” Bai Wei changes the subject. “Until things settle down, I still want to stay in this marriage. Otherwise, I won’t be able to get his death benefit as his spouse. Please give me therapy so I can face my married life calmly.” Therapist: ... * “Men always change after they get married,” a friend sobs to Bai Wei. “He comes home from work, lies in bed scrolling TikTok, doesn’t play the piano or tidy up the backyard. He’s like a moldy potato, a puddle of mud, an intruder, a non-recyclable life-form.” Bai Wei: “Yes, my marriage is the same. Before we got married, he’d bleed if his fingers were cut, end up in the hospital if he was hit by a car, and land in the ICU after drinking half a moldy coconut. If he was pushed down the stairs, he’d lose half a leg. After our honeymoon, everything changed.” Friend: ? Bai Wei: “Yes, everything changed. Men before and after marriage are like two different species.” * I love my wife. After I quit my old line of work, I fell in love with him at first sight. He’s gentle, caring, and polite. When I was pushed down the stairs, when I crawled out of an exploding gas fire, when a car suddenly backed over me in front of our garage and broke my leg, he always looked after me in the hospital and watched my oxygen tube. So, alive or dead, I’ll always stay by his side. Marriage is an art. I won’t leave my wife. If he wants to go back to his parents’ home, I’ll cling to the underside of the car and go with him. If he wants to be alone, I’ll turn invisible and curl up carefully in the sewer. I’ll hide my tentacles, stop attacking people, put away my five extra eyes, and be an ordinary auto mechanic, a good husband. I’ll build a perfect marriage with him and make him feel safe. In the quiet remainder of my life, this is the only thing I want to do. I think he knows he’s my wife, too. After all, he’s never denied it. A haunting, persistent monster ghost nonhuman seme X an abducted, neurotic, naturally antisocial former villainous boss uke Recommended: My Reborn Obsessive Ghost Boyfriend Won’t Leave Me Alone, complete In her second year studying design, Chi Lanyi thought she’d found the perfect older boyfriend. Gao Rong was strong, reliable, rational, and devoted. He gave Chi Lanyi access to the best fashion resources and dealt with every classmate who was jealous of her. At work, he calmly stood up for Chi Lanyi’s image as a genius. In bed, he gently kissed away every one of Chi Lanyi’s fragile tears. Chi Lanyi thought no one in the world could be luckier. She was grateful to Gao Rong and wanted to spend her whole life with him. Until she discovered that Gao Rong wasn’t the person she’d imagined. Gao Rong had been watching her all along. * Gao Rong was reborn, returning from the darkness of betrayal. In his previous life, Chi Lanyi had used her genius, her neuroses, and her lethal beauty to make Gao Rong fall hopelessly in love with her, then destroyed the life he should have had on a normal path. Gao Rong should have become a great entrepreneur or a successful politician, not what he was now: after turning Chi Lanyi into a fashion genius, he was divorced and thrown out by the person he’d loved all his life. After being reborn, Gao Rong looked at Chi Lanyi and thought that he’d spoiled her in his previous life. This time, he’d make it impossible for Chi Lanyi to look after herself without him. With a gentle trap, he’d make the genius his alone. He drove out the professor who framed Chi Lanyi and locked her in the greenhouse of an incubator project. He negotiated the most favorable contracts for her, but also sent away her friend, who had kissed Chi Lanyi on the cheek. He would make Chi Lanyi a canary in his glass cage: admired by all, perfect, and yet able to flutter only in his hands. He would keep Chi Lanyi in warm water, drowning her without her even noticing until she belonged to him alone. He wanted Chi Lanyi to love him madly, stay by his side, and never want to escape. * Gao Rong had always thought he was doing a good job. He arranged for Chi Lanyi’s vicious parents to go bankrupt, cutting off her last escape route. But he never expected Chi Lanyi, whom he’d laid down to sleep on a velvet cushion, to be standing behind him, her face as pale as a sheet as she heard the whole phone call. Gao Rong thought Chi Lanyi was lost in a sweet dream. When morning came, he would give her a tender good-morning kiss, then carry on with every happy, passionate day alongside his little prey. Gao Rong didn’t know that Chi Lanyi, hiding behind the curtains, had only one thought amid her endless terror. She wanted to escape. A reborn, obsessive, possessive ghost-like seme whose protectiveness is just as strong as his possessiveness X a proud, genius designer with depression, the uke Both are reborn. The seme is reborn first; the uke recovers her memories later. Content warnings: 1. Contains coercive romance. 2. They’re both deeply in love with each other, to an almost gravitational degree. If you prefer light, sweet romances, this may not be for you. 3. At every point in their lives, the seme and uke are each other’s only ones, though there is a period of separation. Theme: If you give your true feelings, you’ll find a love that brings sunshine and hope.