[1V1, double cleansing, redemption, long planned]
It was only after Linghu Jiao died that she learned that Shi Guanlan, the stepbrother she had always been in awe of, loved her to the core.
Her wandering soul saw—
He fell asleep holding her favorite tulips every night and wiped the tombstone over and over again in front of her tomb;
He knelt in all the temples around the capital, kowtowing step by step, with bloody marks on his forehead, just asking the gods and Buddhas to grant her good health in the next life.
When she opened her eyes again, she was back to the age of eighteen, backstage at the freshman orientation party.
The person in the mirror has bright eyes and good eyesight, and has not yet experienced all the things that will happen later.
And in the shadows below the stage, sat the man who would be the most powerful man in Beijing in the future, but at this moment he was still holding back.
In this life, she smiled brightly and openly, playing the music she wrote just for him under the spotlight.
The strings of the piano stirred the heartstrings, and also caught the deep gaze in the darkness.
Later, the Beijing circle was in an uproar.
It was said that the cold-hearted heir of the Shi family was entangled with a little girl.
When he hides, she chases; when he retreats, she advances.
Until one night, he pressed her against the piano room, his breath hot:
"Jiaojiao, do you know what you are doing?"
She tiptoed close to his ear:
"Catching a coward who has secretly loved me for two lifetimes."
It turns out that rebirth is not the mercy of gods and Buddhas, but the perfection he obtained for her with his pride.