Quick Transmigration: Yandere Male Leads? Hand 'Em Over! - Chapter 281

“Fufu, Ru… I mean Ru, imagine this—there’s a man who sneaks into your bedroom every night at midnight. He doesn’t touch you, doesn’t say a word, just stands there watching you for hours. Then, before dawn, he quietly leaves. What do you think is going through his head?”

After being secretly watched by Shi Yan for a week, Su Ci finally couldn’t hold it in. While heading out to dinner with her foodie roommate, she brought up this bizarre little topic.

At first, she’d been so tense she could barely sleep a wink.

With Brother Sheng Yan on the mic and Shi Yan standing at her bedside, it felt—if she used a rather inappropriate metaphor—like she was a married woman having an illicit online romance, terrified her husband would find out about the other man’s existence.

But after two or three nights, she realized Shi Yan was only there to watch. Occasionally, he would even tuck in her quilt or pick up her pillow. With that, she slept soundly, at ease.

Maybe because she wasn’t catching a chill or sleeping in a bad position, she’d wake up every morning feeling unusually refreshed.

But this was just a rental she shared with her roommate.

Once her senior year’s fall internship began, she’d have to find a place closer to her company to cut down on commuting time.

When she moved, would Shi Yan still sneak in every night to watch her sleep? Should she give him a heads-up?

If she could just figure out why he was doing this, it would be easy. Shi Yan loved money so much—she could just pay him to watch her sleep.

Unexpectedly, Cai Fu grabbed her arm and shook her excitedly.

“Su Su! You read that crazy popular novel too?”

“…Huh?”

“You know! The one where the male lead’s a creepy, gloomy ghost—acts all aloof and proud on the surface, but deep down he’s madly in love with the heroine!”

“Every night, he watches her sleep. And the jewelry, clothes, and shoes he gives her all have GPS trackers and hidden cameras! The yandere vibes are practically overflowing!” (t/n: “Yandere” is a Japanese pop culture archetype for characters who are obsessively in love, often to the point of violence or control.)

Su Ci remembered—it was that insanely addictive yandere-control novel their dorm chat had been buzzing about every day.

“Emmm… I’ve seen the promo posts. Fufu, I mean in real life—do people actually sneak in to watch someone at night like that…”

“Run! Just run!”

Cai Fu’s scream was as sharp and dry as sugarless whole-wheat bread.

“Fiction is one thing, but in reality? No way they’d ‘do nothing.’ That male lead’s a perfect 2D paper man—real-life voyeurs are just perverted creeps! If you wait until something happens, it’ll be too late!”

Su Ci nodded. “Fair point… But Ru—he even tucks in my quilt and picks up my pillow. One time, I woke up thirsty and he brought me water…”

Cai Fu, suddenly calm, patted her chest in relief.

“Oh, then you must’ve just come across one of those fake viral stories. People online will write any made-up gossip for clicks…”

“I thought you’d run into a real creep. Glad it’s not that—Su Su, don’t let yourself get fooled.”

Su Ci swirled her hotpot and smiled politely.

Please. She had met one.

After a while, she asked again: “Fufu, that ‘yandere vibe’ you mentioned—what does it actually smell like?”

Tonight, when Shi Yan came, she was going to try to sniff it out.

If so many people liked it, it had to smell good… right?

Like his own crisp, cool scent.

“Ah, that’s hard to explain… Wait a sec, I’ll send you a few posts.”

Moments later, Su Ci received several links explaining “yandere” traits.

《Core Traits of a Yandere》

① Extreme Emotional Attachment – A yandere has an intense possessiveness toward their target, often engaging in obsessive surveillance, stalking, and controlling behaviors.

Worried Su Ci might not understand, Cai Fu quickly “translated” into plainer terms:

“In real life, a yandere is just a full-on creep who won’t give their lover a shred of personal space!”

“They’re often fetishists too—not only shadowing and monitoring you constantly, but also stealing things you’ve used and doing unspeakable things with them.”

Biting into the candied hawthorn on her icy rice dumpling, Su Ci asked with heartfelt confusion:

“But isn’t true love about being open with each other, no holding back? If they carefully keep your things, that’s being responsible—what if you lose them?”

“…Uh? Well, but still…”

Was that right?

Being watched on camera 24/7?

That was a crime!

② Twisted Emotional Logic – Using self-serving “dark logic” to justify extreme behavior, forbidding the target from socializing normally, and cutting them off from society.

“See? Yanderes are both thrilling and terrifying! They won’t let their lover work, make friends, or even go out. How’s that any different from imprisonment?”

“Sounds great to me—you could just stay home all day, binge dramas, read novels… You wouldn’t even have to clean, because the yandere would get jealous of you touching the broom and mop.”

“But the good kind of yandere only exists in anime and games! In real life, they’re just creepy losers—like that broke guy upstairs who’s always reading comics.”

“…Cough. Eat, eat.”