Reborn romance, bittersweet ending. When someone reborn meets a two-faced male lead, will this salvation lead into an abyss or onto a smooth road?
At the instant the truck came hurtling toward her, Lin Wanxing saw the shock on Gu Yanchen’s face. When she opened her eyes again, she was back one month before the college entrance exam. Her only friend, Zhou Xiaoxiao, was lying in the hospital, while Gu Yanchen, the culprit, sat by the window, twirling a pen as he watched her struggle.
“Do you want her to live, or do you want to live yourself?” the rebellious boy asked, offering her a brutal choice. She gritted her teeth and answered, “I choose her.”
But when she charged into the classroom clutching a fruit knife, she saw him take a thug’s steel pipe for her. When she thought he was a demon, an anonymous text warned her, “Beware of the people around you.” When she tore up the review notes he’d given her, she found a photo from their middle-school sports day hidden in an exam paper: a boy in a white shirt, bending down to help her after she fell.
Her father’s belt, her mother’s cold gaze, the hospital’s overdue bills, Chen Hu’s sneer, Jiang Yi’s brotherly kindness… together, they wove a suffocating net. Only when blood from the warehouse splashed across her face did she realize that the person she had hated in both her lives had draped his down jacket over her shoulders on a winter night when she was thirteen.
As the college entrance exam bell rang, an explosion tore through the sky. He pressed his car keys into her palm. “Drive forward. Don’t look back.” In the rearview mirror, as a dagger sank into his chest, she finally understood the tsunami hidden in his eyes.
The embers of this fire reignited, burning away the lies, but never the words he’d left unsaid: “I’ll protect you.”
