My Ghost Childhood Friend Came Back for Me

*Warning: the male lead is a strangling vine.

*Warning: nonhuman, genuinely ghostly, and pathologically possessive.

In her second year of high school, Mu Yi suddenly had a childhood friend.

The good news: he was beautiful, with pale, cool-toned skin, and was every girl's dream. He was also very good to her, so good that everyone envied her.

The bad news: she had never met this so-called childhood friend.

To be childhood friends, you have to have grown up together, right? But before her second year of high school, she had never met this supposed childhood friend.

He appeared by her side out of nowhere. Then everyone she knew, including her parents, began to share the same distorted memories.

They all insisted they knew Song Yuhuai, that he had grown up with her, and that he had been her little knight since childhood.

Looking at Song Yuhuai's elegant features and the clean yet unsettling smile on his face, Mu Yi desperately wanted to run.

But wherever she fled, he found her like a leech, watching her with that same strange, bashful smile.

"Baby, what are you doing here?"

"Why didn't you take me with you? Why, why, why, why, why..."

At last, Mu Yi couldn't take it anymore. After a long time plotting, she finally found a way to erase him.

This thing wasn't even human!

*

At first, after escaping Song Yuhuai, Mu Yi was so timid she didn't dare go outside.

But then she realized he really did seem to have disappeared. The memories of those around her began returning to normal, and nobody kept bringing him up anymore.

Little by little, Mu Yi stopped being afraid. She really had gotten rid of that unclean thing for good.

Later, she went to university and naturally got a boyfriend.

On the night she came back from a date with him, her phone's inbox began popping up messages like it had been infected: Did you have fun did you did you have fun did you have fun did you have fun I'll die for you I'll die for you I'll die for you I'll die for you I'll die for you I'll die for you...

Her phone crashed completely.

Mu Yi sank to the floor.

Then she glanced out the window and saw Song Yuhuai plummeting from a high-rise.

"I'll die for you."

Song Yuhuai, whom she thought she had erased for good, had come back for her.

*

Mu Yi finally broke up with her boyfriend, and Song Yuhuai latched onto her again.

His expression was as bashful as ever, his cheeks a little red, but his dark pupils trembled. "Baby, will you be with me?"

Mu Yi tilted her head back and let him kiss her wildly, feeling something unknown writhe and coil around her. She gasped for breath, her tone dripping with sarcasm. "Didn't you say you'd die for me? So why aren't you dead?"

Mist clouded the corners of Song Yuhuai's eyes, and his pupils went unfocused. His voice was brimming with barely restrained excitement. "Baby, I'm dying of pleasure."

"I am one with my master."

A deranged, love-struck ghost x a clearheaded, composed, gentle, and powerful heroine

2025.12.17

My next novel will be Private Snowfall. Please add it to your collection. Here's the blurb.

Bright, bold heiress x gloomy, twisted, damp ghost

The day Luan Jingxue brought Xu Taiqing home, the mold in the old house's corners had dried up as if it might die at any moment, while Xu Taiqing's eyes, black as bottomless pits, seemed ready to devour her whole.

But that must have been a trick of exhaustion after her long journey.

Xu Taiqing was clearly so pitiful. Even when he was bullied, he would only gaze at her miserably without saying a word.

She brought him home, gave him the family he had always dreamed of, and got him into the same high school as her, so he could become a normal person living in the sunlight.

She expected nothing in return, but she never imagined he would repay her with revenge.

This handsome, slender boy always did as she said, coming when called and leaving when dismissed. The busy Miss Luan rarely saw him, but she had always had a fairly good impression of him.

Until the day news of her engagement went public. The usually obedient boy knocked on her door, his dark eyes filled with a bitter, bone-chilling wind.

He toyed with a knife in his elegant, bony fingers and smiled as he asked, "Luan Jingxue, if I died on your wedding day, would you hold your wedding first, or my funeral? A hundred years from now, could our bones rot together?"

Xu Taiqing's revenge was simple. He would use the most extreme means to force her to see him, just to quiet the heart-piercing jealousy and itch.

*

Xu Taiqing loved Luan Jingxue. He wished he could burrow into her body and become one with her.

The love itched relentlessly deep in his bones. He wanted to cut out his heart and feed it to Luan Jingxue, then softly ask how it tasted.

If she said it was delicious, Xu Taiqing's life would have meaning.

But gloomy, damp mold belongs in a corner, where it can spy on the sun and avoid drying up beneath its rays.

Xu Taiqing was just like his name: perpetually sickly mold.

Even stealing things covered in Luan Jingxue's scent to build a nest couldn't ease the itch in his bones or the sickness crawling all over his body.

Until Luan Jingxue leaned over and softly asked him, "What's wrong? Are you sick?"

"I'm lovesick."

"Luan Jingxue, desire is itching through my bones and blood."

*

Later, the sun finally shone on the moss, and Xu Taiqing pressed himself against Luan Jingxue's leg.

Parched moss turns green again when it meets water. Xu Taiqing came back to life when he met water.

His cheeks were damp, his long lashes brushed her trembling leg, and he smiled with narrowed eyes. "Thank you, Miss Luan, for granting me a refreshing downpour."

*A gender-swapped foster-care trope. The leads are not related and there are no legal adoption papers.

*The male lead is extremely abnormal, with eyes only for the heroine.

*Those in positions of power always hold their heads high and never bow to anyone or anything. The one in power is the heroine.

Theme: Life rings out with conviction.