The Gloomy Young Widower Decides to Take Everyone Down

Yin Shu's husband died.

Before he died, he left a will bequeathing his entire fortune to him.

When Yin Shu heard the terrible news, he didn't shed a single tear.

He calmly brought his husband's body home.

Calmly put it in the ice room.

Calmly used his enormous inheritance to hire a pretty boy with a temperament similar to his husband's.

Calmly announced at his husband's funeral that he would soon remarry the pretty boy.

Calmly waited until everyone had left, then pressed the pretty boy against the coffin and got intimate with him.

Then, on the seventh day after his husband's death, he finally heard the eerie knocking at the door he'd been hoping for.

His husband's familiar, gentle voice coaxed him from outside: "Sweetheart, I forgot my keys. Could you open the door for me?"

Even that gentle voice couldn't hide the resentment in his tone.

Anyone could tell something was wrong.

Wearing only thin pajamas, Yin Shu hurried to the door and opened it. "Sure~"

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After death, souls don't linger in the world for long. Only ghost stories born from powerful enough obsessions can remain.

Yin Shu's husband was a gentle, kind hero who had made it his duty to protect all living beings. He was always prepared to sacrifice himself. There was no way he could become a ghost story.

Even if Yin Shu needed him more than all the living beings in the world did.

It doesn't matter. If love won't do, then hate will.

Let his hatred become an obsession, and turn him into a ghost story.

For the rest of their lives, they could stay tangled together in confusion and chaos.

After all, he was the one who had made the first move.

Yin Shu was pinned to the bed by a mass of icy mist, and while they were at it until he was utterly spent, he grinned with delight.

A chain etched with an intricate formation bound the mass of mist, trapping it together with him.

"Even if you're dead, you're still mine."

PS:

1. The shou gets intimate with a sentient cotton doll at the gong's funeral. Please avoid this if it's not your thing.

2. The protagonist is dark and twisted early on, but has never killed an innocent person. He'll gradually learn to be a good person later.

3. The gong is abnormal for a while after becoming a ghost story, but this is a traditional HE. He'll get better, and our two babies will have a happy ending.

An excerpt of the shou's inner monologue:

My husband is gentle and kind, a good man by society's standards, who has made saving the world his duty.

He appeared in my dark world and illuminated my life. But often, I wasn't grateful. On the contrary, I hated him.

Being kind means he isn't kind only to me. Loving everyone means justice matters more to him than I do.

I once thought that one day I might be driven mad and do something I could never take back. That day hadn't come yet when he abandoned me first. Not because he had fallen out of love, but because

He died saving someone who had nothing to do with us.

They all call him a hero. But he abandoned me.

I hate him. I love him. I want only him.

Even if the one who comes back isn't all of him.

Theme: Protect our home.