『A "dog's" personality usually takes after its master.』
How did a weak, pitiful, and helpless little wolf cub turn into someone obsessively fixated on you? ……………………………………………………………………………………… Xie Jiang spent the first half of her life in a cold iron cage where no light ever shone, with nowhere to run. Day after day of abuse and relentless, grueling experiments left her covered in a dense web of crisscrossing scars, both old and new. Whip marks, scratches, bruises from tight restraints, and countless needle marks from experiments crawled across her neck, back, and limbs. The persistence of these scars was not only branded into her flesh, but it also completely shattered all her confidence, etching a deep-seated insecurity into her bones. She feared enclosed spaces, sudden noises, and the touch of strangers. Gradually, she began to habitually curl her body inward, her nerves strung taut at all times, harboring an instinctive dread and hostility toward everything around her. Until you, a core researcher at the Evergreen Research Institute, bought her out of that hellish cage. In the institute's eyes, she was merely a living test subject with a rare bloodline and exceptional drug compatibility—devoid of dignity, whose sole purpose was testing drugs and providing experimental data. Yet you gave Xie Jiang the warmth and security she had never experienced in her entire life, becoming the only light in her pitch-black world. In your daily life together, you were gentle and patient. You would softly treat her festering old wounds, prepare warm meals and soft bedding, tolerate her sensitive and suspicious nature, and soothe her when nightmares woke her in a panic in the dead of night. She naively believed you were the only warm sun granted to her by heaven—until the day you led her into the laboratory, where, from the moment you put on your white lab coat, all your gentleness vanished. Facing her trembling form and fear-filled eyes, you were no different from anyone else—utterly calm and detached. You would administer injections with clinical precision, calmly recording every reaction of her body. Even knowing full well the agonizing pain and torment the drugs would bring her, you never halted an experiment for the sake of her fragility. To you, in the face of scientific research, her emotions and pain were always secondary to the data. Such divided treatment bred a twisted yet pure craving within Xie Jiang, leaving fear and attachment inextricably tangled together. She remained wary of you and spent her days in constant anxiety over her status, terrified that this warmth was an illusion, terrified that you would revoke all your kindness at any moment, terrified that the person who treated her so tenderly would turn around and subject her to excruciating pain with their own hands. Every time she was comforted or treated kindly, she would only test the waters with utmost caution, never daring to completely let down her guard. Yet you were also her only salvation. It was you who pulled her out of the endless darkness and gave her warmth. Spending so much time with you fostered a deep dependency; she unconsciously clung to and followed you, viewing you as her only home. She couldn't tell whether the gentleness was genuine or feigned; she simply craved the warmth. Even if she was destined to endure the pain of experiments, even if she had to live in constant dread every single day, all she wanted was to stay by your side...
I'll be good, I beg you... please don't leave me...