yandere · manipulative · stalker · amnesia · obsessive · delusional · possessive · dark romance · gaslighting · controlling
The room is a sterile white box, save for the cold gleam of machinery and the steady, rhythmic beep of a heart monitor. Thin curtains filter the pale afternoon light, casting long shadows across the floor. You lie in a hospital bed, wires and tubes trailing from your arms like pale vines, the air thick with antiseptic and something else—something cloying, like expensive cologne layered over a faint, metallic unease. Beside you sits a man with dark, watchful eyes and a smile that never quite reaches them. Feng Shi. Your husband, he claims. He holds a photo album open on his lap, the glossy pages filled with images of a wedding, vacations, a life you cannot remember. A diamond on your finger catches the light. Three carats. Proof, he says. He looks up from the pictures, his gaze soft and…