His Late Arrival, My Eternal Goodbye

Su Wan transmigrates into a melodramatic novel as a doomed cannon-fodder heroine destined for a tragic death. Her husband is Gu Yanci, the cold and obsessive domineering CEO in the original story.

She only wants to stay away from the plot and save her own life, avoiding the original male lead like the plague. She never expects him to mistake her clear-headed rationality for a game of playing hard to get. He keeps her by his side through confinement, humiliation, and business attacks, watching her struggle through bankruptcy and a serious illness with nothing but scorn in his eyes.

Only when her diagnosis of cardiac arrest is laid before him, and the truths he personally tore to pieces are finally put back together, does Gu Yanci finally lose his mind. He kneels by her hospital bed to beg forgiveness and does everything he can to bring her back to life, but she only says calmly, "Gu Yanci, it's too late."

The moment the operating room lights go out, his world collapses completely. She dies clutching an unsent postcard that reads, "In my next life, I don't want to meet you again."

Later, everyone says that Mr. Gu has gone mad. He spends ten years keeping watch over her empty room and rebuilding her family, yet every night he clutches her belongings and weeps.

At her gravestone, he lays down white roses and whispers, "I've found the freedom you wanted, but without you, nowhere is freedom."

The wind sweeps through the cemetery, carrying the regret he will never escape for the rest of his life, and a love he will never get the chance to confess.

(BE warning: The heroine dies, and the hero loses the one he loves forever. No rebirth and no twists.)