The Ex-Chasing Crematorium: Reborn After Loving the Wrong Person

What if being reborn isn't about making amends, but about letting go for good? When business tycoon Ling Ye is on the brink of death from a heart attack, he is suddenly reborn five years in the past, to the moment he used force to claim his first love, Shen Xingyao, and force her to get engaged to him. In his previous life, he used his power to imprison her, yet as illness tortured him, he could only watch her care for him as his wife, her eyes filled with nothing but indifference. Only when he died in a car accident did he learn that her diary was filled with all the love she had never dared to confess. In this life, Ling Ye calls off the engagement in front of everyone at the engagement banquet. "Between us, it was always just a transaction." He tears up the marriage contract with his own hands, then coughs up flecks of blood where she can't see. Shen Xingyao can't understand why the man who ruined her first love and took away her freedom has suddenly cast her aside. All she remembers is her hand rushing to save him when he collapsed during a heart attack, beyond her control, and the shrill alarm of a heart monitor that keeps recurring in her dreams. Outside Ling Ye's hospital room, she hears him mumble hoarsely in his unconscious state: "Xingyao... don't be left a widow..." "The Zhao family... they want to hurt you..." The fragments of her dreams suddenly stab into her: what she had forgotten was the truth that, in another timeline, they had loved each other until death. "Now it's my turn to imprison your heartbeat." She storms into the hospital room and slaps a bottle of nitroglycerin down beside his pillow. "Ling Ye, your life belongs to me. If you're going to die, you'll have to wait for my permission."