Reborn: What’s the Harm in Giving Him Another Chance?

[Love across two lifetimes + devoted to each other + sweet romance]

Note: In his previous life, the male lead took the female lead by force, lived his whole life in regret, and loved her without ever winning her heart. The female lead is reborn and gives him a chance. The male lead was not chaste in his previous life, so don't read this if that bothers you.

In his previous life, Xiao Beizhou stood at the pinnacle of power and was a playboy who had known countless women. He never expected to lose his heart and give up his debauched ways because of one woman.

He took her by force and became the other man for love, giving her his whole heart. He even took a bullet for Lu Qingqing and nearly lost his life, but threatening her with their child still couldn't get him a marriage certificate to bind her to him.

For the first thirty years, he had scorned the so-called institution of marriage. In the latter half of his life, when he begged in vain for a marriage certificate, he finally understood how much that thin sheet of paper mattered.

It mattered so much that he waited until his hair turned white and his back bent, yet it never came.

To Lu Qingqing, she had hated and despised Xiao Beizhou in her previous life. She hated him for ruining her future with her first love, for forcing her to have his child, and especially for his arrogant certainty that she would eventually fall in love with him.

But she would never fall in love with him.

She had even less regard for his so-called promise to “love her for life and have only her.”

How many women had shared his bed? Could she really believe a man like that?

Then she married and spent thirty quiet years with her husband. All the while, he watched her for thirty years with reddened eyes and tears he tried to hide. He never married, secretly spent his days hugging the only photo they had taken together, and even risked his life to protect her at the age of seventy.

Then she believed him.

She believed he hadn't lied.

As he lay dying, he asked humbly, “Qingqing, I've lived such a painful life. In the next life, could you grant me just a little love? I'm not greedy. Just a little.”

She didn't agree, because she wouldn't betray her marriage.

But if there really was a next life, she would say yes.