Waaah, I'm being forced into loving my yandere wife's brain.

Lin Zhiyao stood frozen in the center of the living room, her fingertips gripping the key, the cold metal edges digging into her palm, bringing a chill.

The light from the big screen spilled over from the screening room at the end of the corridor, casting a blurry, dark blue outline of the entire living room and furniture.

Lin Zhiyao took two steps toward the light source and came to the door. She heard a faint, muffled sound coming from the crack in the door, and it seemed to be... her voice?

Lin Zhiyao's mind went completely blank.

She followed the sound and peeked through the crack in the door, then her almond-shaped eyes widened suddenly.

The screen suddenly shone brightly, and the image froze on a back view that she knew all too well.

—It was herself.

Wearing that light blue bikini, she was lifted out of the water by a pair of hands supporting her waist.

Ambiguous sounds flowed slowly from the surround sound system, her sobs and moans mixed with the sound of sloshing water and Shen Jin's suppressed panting.

Lin Zhiyao stood frozen in place.

My blood was flowing backwards.

She stood in the shadows, breathing very softly. The smile in her almond-shaped eyes had completely vanished, replaced by a thin mist of confusion and unease.

How could this be...?

Lin Zhiyao touched the door with her fingertips and pushed it open with a pale face.

The interior was completely revealed to her.

Shen Jin is not inside.

But the image on the screen was completely visible to her, and she could see it clearly.

Lin Zhiyao's face turned even paler, and she almost fell over from the impact if she hadn't been holding onto the wall.

"squeak--"

The door to the washroom in the movie theater was opened.

Shen Jin stood there.

She probably washed her face or something; her hair was still wet with cold water, and dampness clung to her forehead.

A vein bulged taut on his neck, his shirt was completely open, and his collarbone and lower abdomen were flushed, with a thin layer of sweat on his body.

Those fox-like eyes turned to Lin Zhiyao in the dim light, the unnatural redness at the corners of their eyes still lingering, and the blue watery reflection from the screen still lingering in their pupils, moist and sticky.

Upon seeing her, his Adam's apple bobbed slightly.

"Yaoyao..."

Shen Jin spoke, his voice hoarse beyond belief, "Why... are you back so early?"

Lin Zhiyao didn't say anything.

I don't know if they haven't reacted yet, or if they've been too shocked.

But the screen continued to play.

In that scene, she was being pressed against the edge of the pool, her lower back against the cold tiles, her head tilted back, pink diamonds being stirred between her lips and teeth, the refracted light swaying gently with her breath.

Then, the scene changes—

The movie begins with Lin Zhiyao drinking, and that night they spent at the hotel.

Lin Zhiyao's face turned even paler.

"Yaoyao, listen to me."

Shen Jin quickly walked to the sofa, picked up the remote control, and turned off the screen.

The room went dark.

He couldn't see Lin Zhiyao's expression.

Then I went to the side and turned on the light.

The moment I touched the light switch.

He heard Lin Zhiyao's soft, trembling voice, tinged with suppressed anger: "President Shen, look, why did you stop watching?"

The last syllable of his voice was tinged with tears.

Shen Jin paused in his action of turning on the light, but still turned it on. Then, he immediately turned to stare at Lin Zhiyao and saw that her almond-shaped eyes were already red.

Tears welled up in her eyes, but she held them back until she could no longer bear it. Then she quickly wiped them away with the back of her hand, stubbornly refusing to let the tears fall from her eyes.

Lin Zhiyao stared at him.

His whole body tensed up, his hands clenched into fists and hanging at his sides.

"Yaoyao, listen to me." Shen Jin spoke very softly, as if afraid of aggravating her already fragile nerves.

"Then tell me!"

Lin Zhiyao's voice broke down.

Shen Jin's Adam's apple bobbed slightly.

"Say something! Why aren't you saying anything?"

Lin Zhiyao's voice cracked, the last syllable trembling like a taut string, "What is that? Shen Jin, tell me, what is that!"

She pointed at the black screen, her fingertips trembling, her almond-shaped eyes brimming with tears, but she stubbornly held them back, though her eyes were red-rimmed.

She stared intently at him.

Shen Jin stood next to the light switch, his fingers still resting on the panel, his fox-like eyes lowered, watching her for a while.

Then he walked over, his steps unhurried, and stopped two steps away from her.

"It's the surveillance footage from the pool that night," he said, his voice still hoarse from the previous conversation. "I had someone watch the export process; no one else has seen it, and the original files have been destroyed."

"Yaoyao, this is for me alone, I won't show it to anyone else..."

"What are you talking about?"

Lin Zhiyao interrupted, staring at him with disbelief.

She couldn't understand what he was trying to say.

Shen Jin softened his tone further and continued, "Yao Yao, I'm not lying to you. How could I bear to let others see you like this? I would be jealous, absolutely jealous to death."

Shen Jin didn't say the second half of his sentence: He would not only be jealous, but he would be so jealous that he would kill the other person.

Only he can see Yao Yao in the whole world. If anyone else sees her...

Whether he hires a mercenary or an assassin, he will definitely find a way to kill the other party.

As Shen Jin spoke, he seemed to be truly immersed in the situation, his fox-like eyes swirling with a thick, dark rage, as if he were so angry he wanted to kill those non-existent men.

He thought Lin Zhiyao was just worried about these things being leaked.

But Lin Zhiyao's voice rose half an octave, "Is that the point? The point is, you took this secretly! Shen Jin, do you know what you're doing? You didn't get my permission, you—"

She choked back a sob, her lips tightening and then relaxing. "What do you take me for?"

Lin Zhiyao looked at Shen Jin as if she were seeing him in a new light, her eyes filled with unfamiliarity and disbelief, as if she found him incomprehensible.

Shen Jin looked at her, his Adam's apple bobbing, realizing that he seemed to have misunderstood.

But Shen Jin didn't know what he had misunderstood.

He took half a step forward, wanting to reach out and touch her.

Lin Zhiyao suddenly stepped back, her lower back hitting the entryway cabinet with a dull thud.

She winced in pain, but didn't make a sound. Instead, she looked away from his face and fixed her gaze on the small nightlight on the edge of the cabinet.

"Yaoyao...why don't you believe me?" Shen Jin withdrew his hand and stood still. "These things won't pose a threat to you."

"Shen Jin, is this the important point?"

Seeing that he was stubborn and even seemed genuinely confused, Lin Zhiyao softened her voice, but it became even colder, like cold water poured on red-hot iron, creating a sizzling sound.

"The key point is, did you ask me before filming? Did you ask me before releasing it? Do you realize that doing this is hurting me?"

Although Shen Jin didn't show it on his face, he suddenly realized what was going on. At the same time, he stared at Lin Zhiyao, who was leaning against the wall and swaying precariously, and his heartstrings tightened.

He clearly realized that if he didn't do something, he might lose Yao Yao forever.

A brief silence followed.

Only Lin Zhiyao was sobbing softly.

Shen Jin's Adam's apple bobbed. Suddenly, an idea struck him. The darkness in his fox-like eyes vanished completely, and then his eyes reddened. He shed tears along with Lin Zhiyao, seemingly in great pain. "Yaoyao, I'm sorry. This is all my fault."

He stepped forward.

Lin Zhiyao looked at him in astonishment as he wept. Taking advantage of this moment, Shen Jin grasped her arm, looked down at her, and said sincerely, "I'm sorry, I didn't know this would hurt you so much... If I had known, even if I had a better reason, I wouldn't have done this."

"What's the reason for doing this?"

Lin Zhiyao was even more puzzled.

Shen Jin remained silent for a moment, seemingly in pain, or perhaps finding it difficult to speak.

Finally, the struggle in his fox-like eyes faded, revealing a layer of gray-white weariness beneath.

He raised his hand and rubbed his temples, his knuckles pressing a faint red mark on his forehead. "...Because I can't sleep. I've had insomnia for years. I've needed sleeping pills to fall asleep since I was a child, but even so, I still get less than three hours of sleep a day."

"What?" Lin Zhiyao was stunned.

Shen Jin lowered his hand, looked down at her, his voice low but his expression pitiful, "Yaoyao, I haven't had a full night's sleep in years. That night you slept next to me, I held you, and for the first time, I fell asleep without taking my medicine... Do you know how surprised I was?"

He paused for a moment: "I really wanted to hold onto something. I was afraid you would wake up and leave, afraid that all of this was fake, so I took those pictures."

Shen Jin's voice grew softer and softer, "If you're worried, I'll delete it right now, delete it all. You can watch me delete it, and I promise there won't be any attachments left. I won't do it again... just don't leave me, Yao Yao."

In conclusion.

Shen Jin's voice was filled with obvious pain and pleading, and his fox-like eyes were red, as if he were looking at her with great vulnerability.

Lin Zhiyao recalled that when she first met Shen Jin, he was indeed working overtime until the early hours of the morning.

Then she thought of the dark circles under his eyes that he always had, which seemed to have faded a little bit during the few days he had been with her.

Lin Zhiyao also couldn't sleep for nights before the college entrance examination, so she can understand the pain of insomnia.

But that's not it either...

Lin Zhiyao hesitated.

Shen Jin noticed the hesitation and wavering on her face, and quickly pressed his advantage, deleting all the video files in front of her. He repeatedly promised that he would not do it again, his tone sincere and pained, "Yao Yao, please give me another chance... I really didn't mean to hurt you, and I won't do it again..."

Lin Zhiyao was begged by him for a long time with tears in her eyes, and finally reluctantly agreed not to break up.

However, her perception of Shen Jin was reshaped once again, and she felt that he had become very unfamiliar, not the person she had known in the past few days.