Reborn: I Took Refuge with My Ex’s Worst Enemy

[Rebirth and revenge + strong heroine + satisfying comeuppance + groveling chase]

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I died in the winter when I was thirty-one.

In a dark, damp, moldy cell, acute kidney failure and sepsis took my last breath amid endless agony.

Gu Tingxiao was the one who announced my death.

He stared at me coldly through the icy iron bars.

“You embezzled public funds and even tried to frame Wan'er. A wicked woman like you belongs rotting in prison.” As he spoke, he straightened his cuff, like a cool-headed killer cleansing himself after a murder.

Beside him, the woman named Ling Wan'er lifted the corners of her mouth ever so slightly. Her pure, flawless eyes concealed a glint of triumph that only I could see.

I laughed, laughing until my heart seemed to tear apart. I coughed, bringing up the last mouthful of blood pent up in my chest.

I had loved Gu Tingxiao for ten years.

I had been there from when he had nothing to when he founded “Oracle” and built his own technology empire.

Countless all-nighters, countless banquets, and even the knife I took for him, its scar forever etched across my snow-white back.

I thought we were allies fighting side by side, lovers who trusted and depended on each other more than anyone else.

But it was all worth less than a single tear from Ling Wan'er.

She was the “younger sister” he had lost at the orphanage, the only hope in his bleak childhood, the light he could never reach in his nightmares.

And what about me...

At the very last moment, as my consciousness faded, I had only one thought: if I could live again, I would make them pay in blood for every debt they owed me.

Look at me one more time. Remember what I look like, and... my name. I... am Su Nian...

I'm back.