[Past and Present Lives + Redemption + Mutual First Loves + Angsty Romance + Devoted Puppy-Like Hero + 1v1, Both Leads' First Time]
(A heads-up: This is a slow-paced story, not a wish-fulfillment novel, and it has a bad ending. Historical romance chapters about their past lives are interspersed throughout. If that's not your thing, please don't click in. Thank you.)
Li Shuyan is talented and accomplished, the classic beautiful, wealthy woman. The only regret in her life is that no one ever showed her affection as a child.
Then she met a man who treasured her above all else, and thought her hardships were finally over.
But that man died on his way to propose to her.
Devastated, she then discovered that her boyfriend's identity had been fake. So she didn't even know who she was grieving for.
Then one day, she found a mysterious letter her boyfriend had left behind.
It read: “My dearest Ayun, my one true love.”
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In their previous life, he was a brave young general who endured humiliation and hardship.
Even someone like him would nervously rush to her before setting out for battle, eagerly asking what gift she wanted. He was cold and taciturn, but with her alone, he was warm and full of life.
Before he could confess his budding feelings, he was poisoned, dismembered, and left to die in the wilderness.
That winter, as snow blanketed the land, she couldn't find his body.
[Past Life: Clear-headed, independent winemaker focused on her career VS taciturn, lonely young general]
[Present Life: Resilient, sensitive university lecturer VS gentle, fatherly police officer]