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

[Chapter 161 was accidentally added to the top of the list, but Rotten Tomatoes doesn't allow adjusting the volume after it's published, so you'll have to scroll down to the table of contents to find chapter 161.]

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Lin Zhiyao couldn't wait to open the book.

She traced the lines of blind spots with her fingertips, becoming engrossed in touching and reading.

The edges of the pages were worn rough from repeated turning. My fingertips ran over the pharmacological knowledge again and again. One time wasn't enough; I couldn't remember it, so I went back and touched it again.

He read it so intently that he forgot to eat and sleep.

Outside the window, the cicadas' chirping gradually subsided, and the sunlight faded from warm yellow to grayish blue.

Then, the sky went completely dark.

Lin Zhiyao noticed it, but ignored it.

Since she can't see clearly anyway and relies on touch, darkness doesn't really affect her.

It wasn't until the old-fashioned alarm clock on the bedside table suddenly rang that I snapped out of my daze.

It's exactly nine o'clock.

It was the time she usually went to bed.

Lin Zhiyao reluctantly closed the book, ran her fingertips over the cover a couple more times, and then carefully placed the book next to her pillow.

Lin Zhiyao slowly lay down and groped to pull the thin blanket over herself.

Darkness was no different from daytime for her; she could still not see clearly if her eyes were not already able to see.

But tonight.

There are some differences.

Lin Zhiyao had just closed her eyes when the door was pushed open from the outside.

There was no knocking.

No one ever knocks on the door in the entire Gu family.

But it's so late, and they're not making a sound.

It's highly likely to be Gu Yuanshao.

Lin Zhiyao propped herself up and sat up, glancing vaguely towards the doorway, her expression turning cold.

His eyes showed vigilance.

What is he doing here at this time?

She didn't like Gu Yuanshao coming into her room.

Gu Yuanshao always had a mixed smell, a mixture of cosmetics and alcohol, and sometimes the perfume of other women or men.

This made her already keen sense of smell even more disturbed.

But this time...

Lin Zhiyao frowned slightly; she seemed to smell a herbal scent.

It has a crisp, slightly bitter taste, with a calming coolness.

It resembles, but is not entirely, the Angelica dahurica described in the Braille pharmacopoeia beside her pillow.

Instead of standing at the door and leaving as usual, Gu Yuanshao walked towards her.

The blurry blocks of color drew closer and closer. Lin Zhiyao shifted back, her spine against the headboard. "Gu Yuanshao, what are you doing?"

Lin Zhiyao looked at him warily.

Gu Yuanshao stopped in his tracks and didn't approach any closer. "Tomorrow night, come out to dinner with me."

He gave the order in a cold voice.

Lin Zhiyao thought she had misheard.

Going out to eat? With Gu Yuanshao?

Lin Zhiyao pursed her lips, her face showing undisguised disgust, and her tone was equally distasteful, "Who wants to go out with you? You're filthy."

She thought that after hearing this, Gu Yuanshao would slam the door and leave as he always had, or sneer and mock her as a blind, good-for-nothing who just eats for free.

But Gu Yuanshao only paused for a moment, then chuckled softly.

The laughter was very soft.

But there was a clear undercurrent of inexplicable pleasure in his voice; anyone who didn't know better would have thought he was enjoying being scolded.

Lin Zhiyao's ears twitched; she inexplicably felt that the voice sounded somewhat familiar.

She frowned and tried hard to think, but she couldn't make sense of it at all, and she became even more agitated.

Lin Zhiyao is blind. Although her five senses are indeed more acute than others, she is unable to distinguish other people's voices, probably because she has had very little contact with people.

At this moment, Gu Yuanshao approached again, and the slightly cool and bitter scent of herbs in the room became stronger, lingering around her nose.

It seemed so close.

Then, Lin Zhiyao felt the foot of the bed sink slightly, indicating that he had sat down.

"I'm not discussing this with you," Gu Yuanshao said in a low voice. "You have no choice, my fiancée."

The last three words were pronounced very heavily.

Lin Zhiyao gripped the corner of the blanket tightly, her knuckles turning white, her lips trembling with anger. She had just started to curse Gu Yuanshao, "You shameless bastard!"

But Gu Yuanshao seemed not to hear at all, and unlike his usual angry demeanor, he slowly turned and left.

The door closed.

The footsteps faded into the distance at the end of the corridor.

The room fell silent again, with only the second hand of the alarm clock ticking away in the darkness.

Lin Zhiyao sat on the edge of the bed, her fingers gripping the corner of the blanket tightly for a long time without letting go.

She was so angry that her eyes welled up with tears.

Lin Zhiyao raised her hand to wipe away her tears, only to find her hand covered in wet tears.

Bah! What fiancé!

The lingering herbal scent still hung in the air. She wrinkled her nose in disgust and exhaled sharply, trying to expel the smell from her nostrils, but to no avail.

Lin Zhiyao simply turned over and buried her face in the pillow.

The flavor is bland.

But she still couldn't sleep.

Lin Zhiyao flipped over to the left side, and the sheep doll was squeezed to the edge of the bed and almost fell off. She quickly pulled it back and hugged it to her arms.

I feel very wronged.

Lin Zhiyao was so angry that she burst into tears.

The second hand went round and round.

The herbal scent in the house had finally faded to almost nothing.

Lin Zhiyao's emotions gradually calmed down, and her mind returned to calm.

She belatedly realized that something was wrong.

Why do I feel like Gu Yuanshao has become a little strange?