Delusion Disorder

#Angst-ridden romance | Male lead suffers | Coercive possession | Opens with a crematorium-style grovel

Zhong Yi's fiancé died the day before their engagement banquet. At the funeral, rain poured down, and beside her in the muddy ground stood a pair of custom-made Oxford shoes.

She looked up and saw her dead husband's face

Caught off guard when the woman with tear-streaked cheeks threw her arms around him, Gu Daixiao's mocking smile froze on his lips, and the malice rising in his chest caught in his throat.

Had she... mistaken him for her dead husband?

In an instant, a wild idea seized him.

Why not play along? Why not steal her away, possess her, toy with her mercilessly, and then coldly dump her?

Just like before.

Just as she had meekly obeyed Wen Moting, tricked him into falling in love with her, then dumped him. This time, she'd become Gu Daixiao's wife without putting up a fight.

*

Gu Daixiao had thought she would be the one suffering unbearable pain. Until she called another man's name in bed.

He was relieved that the man was truly dead.

Later, his hatred grew so wild that he finally realized the only way he had even the slightest chance of replacing him was if he were still alive.

He should never have taken advantage of her delusions to get revenge, posing as her dead husband and marrying her.

Now, every night when he kissed her, he could see the wedding photo of her and another man hanging on the wall beside their bed.

It constantly reminded him:

Don't willingly become the other man.

-Reading Guide-

* Both are sexually inexperienced, but the male lead doesn't know that and is consumed by jealousy.

* Straightforward woman × gloomy, deranged younger man. The male lead is a highly socially adept madman who uses his power to trap the heroine in a “Truman Show.” He's a deliciously intense ghostly lover! In short, his possessiveness is extreme, and he's completely, utterly insane. Their love and hatred are tangled up in a way that makes neither of them remotely normal, and he'll go to extreme lengths to get what he wants. Readers with strong moral sensibilities are advised to proceed with caution!

(2025.8.26/10.23: trope screenshots saved; 2025.12.04: first-draft blurb screenshot)

Theme: People have to accept reality and let go of delusions before they can find peace