Fall in Love with Him at First Sight

After crawling out of the coffin, I pretended to faint right in front of a young scholar, who kindly took me to his home.

"I'm just escaping the famine, not some strange creature from the woods," I assured him. He believed my story.

Dealing with mortals was a pain. They aged, got sick, and died. So, every few decades, I needed to fake my death by lying in a coffin. When I emerge, it was time to 'accidentally' bump into him in his new life.

I always thought I was just a hopeless romantic, a total simp, until I stumbled upon his diary buried beneath a tree.