Lin Xiaonuan dies suddenly and wakes up as an albino Tyrannosaurus rex, small and conspicuous, with less than three days to live. Instead, a huge dark-brown Tyrannosaurus carries her back to its nest. He lies down and points out some fern shoots with his nose, clumsy as a child waiting for praise. His name is Dayan. She teaches him to hunt by circling around his prey; he shelters her from the rain and keeps her nest warm. He even carries off and hides the baby teeth she loses, keeping them for three lifetimes.
In her second life in the beast world, she returns to human form, while he becomes a black Tyrannosaurus hunted by the entire world. This time, she stands in front of him and shouts, “He's mine!” When he loses control and transforms, no one dares go near him. Only she rushes forward and hugs his snout. The colossal beast instantly calms and lies down obediently, a purr rolling from his throat in perfect harmony with the sound from all three of their lives. The first words he learns to speak are, “Nuan, I'll protect you.” It took him two lifetimes to learn those five words.
He becomes Gu Yanzhi, the campus heartthrob with warm, dark eyes, but he doesn't recognize her. Yet he's kept her teeth for three lifetimes, and her albino birthmark remains on his left shoulder. His body recognized her before his soul did. Then she touches her forehead to his, the way he had nuzzled her across three lifetimes, and the fragments come crashing together.
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