From a Bad Ending in The Mystic Nine to Restart

(An original-character heroine + multiple pairings + canon-compliant) “Love is most beautiful when you’ve weathered every hardship, then suddenly decide you don’t love them anymore.” Winter, 1930. A Xing died on his way to meet me. He was only one street corner away from seeing me for the last time, but a wall separated us in life and death. Autumn, 2004. Watching Zhang Qiling turn and leave without a word by the lake in Banan, I decided I would stop loving him. Summer, 2015. Old Qi said I’d never let go. I knew he was only making excuses, but I still agreed we should go our separate ways. Spring, 2017. I met someone who gave me his whole heart and saw only me, but he lied to me. I would never forgive him. The love in my life was something he lost and found again. I sighed over a broken mirror that could never be mended… But love was never what caused the tragedy of my life.