My Fourth Year as a Widower

Lin Song, 27, is the youngest professor in Nan'en University's history.

Handsome and refined, he's been voted Nan'en University's most desirable partner for four years running.

But no one knows he has a husband who died four years ago.

Lin Song and his husband grew up together, and registered their marriage after earning their doctorates.

He'd thought married life would be happy and harmonious, but fate had other plans. His husband died in a car accident the day after their wedding.

Lin Song became a widower.

After that, his life followed the same three stops: the university, the cemetery, and home. Lin Song found life alone peaceful and fulfilling.

In the fourth year after his husband's death, he brought home a golden retriever. From then on, things at home began to feel strange.

First, his late husband's toothbrush, which he'd locked away in a cabinet, suddenly appeared in Lin Song's cup, thoughtfully arranged in the shape of a heart.

Then, whenever he came home, the floor had been cleaned, and the usually lively golden retriever was cowering in a corner, trembling.

Yet there was no sign that any living creature had entered or left the house.

After that, whenever he woke up, his body was covered in indescribable red marks. They reached up his neck, forcing him to wear turtlenecks to hide them.

Lin Song felt he couldn't go on living like this.

Nan'en University's old campus was being renovated, so Lin Song moved to the new campus.

With his assistant on maternity leave, the university assigned him a new one: Pei Feng, the second son of the Pei family, who had been taken in by them two years ago.

On the first day of term, Lin Song rescued his new assistant from drowning in the lake.

The new assistant had just graduated from university. He was youthful and full of energy, and, more importantly,

he had the same face as Lin Song's late husband.

Lin Song accepted his new assistant and, in view of the university's partnership with the Pei family, let Pei Feng move into his home.

Though Pei Feng looked remarkably like his late husband, Lin Song stayed true to himself and maintained proper boundaries.

But Pei Feng's behavior began to resemble his late husband's more and more, and the safe distance between them was gradually eroded.

At last, Lin Song couldn't help asking, "Are you trying to pursue me?"

Once the unspoken truth was out in the open, Pei Feng became even bolder.

Lin Song rejected his advances without hesitation and kept their relationship strictly professional.

Until one day, a department calling itself the Superpower Management Bureau showed up at his door.

"You're saying the husband who lived with me for years is the world's most dangerous It, and it's right by my side?"

The Bureau's employees saw the dense, intensely oppressive aura of the anomaly emanating from Lin Song and nervously nodded.

Lin Song looked at his assistant behind him, whose face was identical to his late husband's. For once, that face wore an expression of panic.

He slowly smiled.

"I'm afraid my husband died four years ago."

Gentle human bottom x obsessive, husband-obsessed nonhuman top

*Happy ending

*The leads dote on each other, and have eyes only for each other

Theme: Love life