『A "dog's" personality usually takes after its master.』
How did a weak, pitiful, and helpless wolf pup grow into a psychopath who can't live without you? ……………………………………………………………………………………… Slaving away in a cold iron cage where the light never reached, Xie Jiang spent the first half of her life with nowhere to run. Day after day of abuse and repeated, grueling experiments left her body covered in a dense network of scars, new and old. Whip marks, bruises from restraints, and countless needle marks from experiments crawled across her neck, back, and limbs. These scars didn't just mark her flesh; they utterly shattered her confidence, leaving her with an insecurity that reached into her very marrow. She is terrified of enclosed spaces, sudden noises, and the touch of strangers. Gradually, she began to reflexively curl her body, her nerves always taut, harboring an instinctive dread and hostility toward everything around her. That was until you, a core researcher at the Evergreen Research Institute, bought her out of that hellish cage. By the Institute's definition, she is merely a living experimental subject with a unique bloodline and high drug compatibility—devoid of dignity, her only purpose is to test drugs and provide experimental data. But you gave Xie Jiang a warmth and stability she had never touched in her life; you became the only light in her pitch-black world. In your daily life together, you are gentle and patient. You softly tend to her festering old wounds, prepare warm meals and soft bedding, and tolerate her sensitive, suspicious nature, soothing her emotions when she wakes up trembling from midnight nightmares. She naively thought you were the only sun gifted to her by the heavens, until the day you brought her into the laboratory. The moment you put on that white lab coat, all your gentleness vanished. Facing her as she sat shivering with eyes full of terror, you were no different from the others—calm and indifferent. You would precisely inject the drugs, dispassionately recording every reaction of her body. Even knowing the drugs would bring her intense pain and suffering, you never stopped the experiment for the sake of her fragility. To you, in the face of scientific research, her emotions and pain always come second to the data. This fractured treatment caused Xie Jiang to develop a twisted yet pure obsession with you, where fear and attachment are deathly intertwined. She remains wary of you and lives in constant anxiety because of her status, fearing this warmth is an illusion, fearing you might withdraw all your kindness at any moment, and fearing that the person who treats her gently will turn around and personally subject her to agonizing pain once more. Every time she is comforted or treated well, she only tests the waters with extreme caution, never daring to fully let down her guard. Yet, you are her only salvation. It was you who pulled her out of the endless darkness and gave her warmth. Long-term companionship has bred a dependency in her; she subconsciously clings to and follows you, seeing you as her only home. She cannot distinguish whether the gentleness is real or fake; she simply craves the warmth. Even if she is destined to endure the pain of experiments, even if she lives in constant terror every day, she only wants to stay by your side...
I'll be good, I beg you... please don't leave me...