My husband and I have been married for three years, and our lives had always been very peaceful. My husband is a model man—he goes to work on time, comes home for dinner, and always takes care of me. However, there is one strange thing I recently discovered.

Every night, after I have fallen into a deep sleep, I feel as if someone is staring intensely at me. Initially, I thought it was just exhaustion causing hallucinations. But that feeling grew more distinct every day.

One night, I decided to pretend to be asleep. Around 2:00 AM, I felt a slight movement on the other side of the bed. My husband sat up, but he didn't go to the bathroom or get a drink of water as usual. He just sat there, silent in the dark.

I peeked through a gap in my hair, my heart pounding. In the dim light filtering in from the hallway nightlight, I saw him leaning his face very close to mine. His hot breath brushed against my skin. He did nothing; he just watched me with a very strange look—one that was deep, intense, and carried a hint of something terrifying that I had never seen in him during the day.

After about ten minutes of "observation," he gently ran his hand through my hair and whispered a sentence that made my blood run cold: "It’s almost time, my love. Don’t make me wait any longer."

After saying that, he lay back down and hugged me to sleep as if nothing had happened. I lay there frozen, drenched in a cold sweat. What did "almost time" mean? And what was he waiting for from me?

Since that night, I began to pay closer attention to his actions. I discovered an old diary in a locked drawer in his office. When I secretly opened it, I was horrified to find photos of me taken surreptitiously from before we even knew each other, accompanied by meticulous handwriting: "Day 100 of following her," "She is so beautiful when she doesn't know someone is watching..."

As it turns out, the "chance encounter" that led to our marriage was not a coincidence at all. He had planned everything. And tonight, as I write these lines, I feel that gaze behind my back once again...