Waiting for a Flower to Bloom Again

Blurb One: The good news is, I was reborn. The bad news is, I was reborn in someone else’s body. I’m still trying to wrap my head around it, but there are plenty of advantages to being reborn. For one thing, I’ve become prettier and gained the perfect parents I always dreamed of. I’ve also become more outgoing and made lots of friends. And, even more luckily, the outstanding boy I had a crush on when I was young has fallen for me too, and now he wants us to promise each other a future. Everything is so perfect. But when I look across the crowd at my younger self, still shabby and gray, I’m at a loss.

Who am I, really? Wen Yiran? Tan Xiao? Or am I neither of them?

Blurb Two: If you could live your life over, what would you do? Tan Xiao had never considered the question. It seemed so absurd, until one day she really did return to the somewhat old-fashioned past and became classmates with her younger self. She began to seriously consider what she could do to make it all meaningful. Later, she stopped chasing after some so-called meaning. All she wanted was to accompany herself and retrace the path of growing up while there was still time.

Content warning: This is a story of self-redemption and the coming-of-age journey of an ordinary small-town girl. It is not a wish-fulfillment story. There is a romance, but it doesn’t appear until later, so please don’t read if that bothers you.