[Rebirth + redemption + devoted to each other]
[The heroine is reborn to redeem him; from the hero’s perspective, his secret love comes true]
[Multiple characters are reborn + they return to different points in time]
In the eyes of outsiders, Shen Xiuyan is a refined young gentleman, steady and wise, who has made the Shen family business thrive. Lin Xi, who was a troublemaker from childhood, was lucky enough to marry Shen Xiuyan after a drunken mishap left her down on her luck. It must be a blessing earned over several lifetimes.
Only Lin Xi knows that Shen Xiuyan is no different from a tyrant. She hates how he watches her every moment and the deliberately challenging look in his eyes whenever he sees her.
When Shen Xiuyan is home, nine times out of ten they spend the day arguing. She wants to go skydiving, but he forbids it; she wants to go hang gliding, but he forbids it; she wants to go skiing, but he tells her to wait until he can take time off.
Time and again, Lin Xi thinks that they’ve never gotten along, even as children. Shen Xiuyan must have fallen in love with the feeling of superiority he gets from using her as a point of comparison.
Until, after one of their arguments, Shen Xiuyan dies protecting her.
After the Shen family business falls into Lin Xi’s hands, she wakes up screaming every night. The clammy sweat from her nightmares feels like Shen Xiuyan’s blood-soaked body after his fall from the cliff.
Before he dies, he asks, “Xixi, do you love me?”
When she returns to the day of her father’s funeral, her uncle is still giving her a hard time, and Shen Xiuyan stands beneath a tree with a black umbrella, just as he did in her previous life.
This time, she doesn’t get provoked by her relatives’ words, lose her temper, beat her uncle badly enough to put him in the hospital, and end up in prison herself.
She walks toward the imposing figure beneath the tree, catches the concern in his eyes, and asks him for help.
“Shen Xiuyan, help me, and I’ll marry you.”
My rival-to-lovers widower, love me properly this time.
And don’t put on such an act like you did in our last life~
P.S. Because the heroine has changed, her fatherly widower will change too in this life.
