In Melbourne’s bitter wind, Shen Yanbei clutches a diagnosis: late-stage brain disease, with only six months to live. Abandoned at an orphanage by his own mother at the age of three, he fled overseas as a teenager and scraped by at the bottom of society as an adult. The aftereffects of a gunshot wound gnaw at his bones, and gang threats haunt him. His life has never known a glimmer of light. Clutching the jade pendant engraved with the character “Shen,” he returns to China with red-rimmed eyes, bent on revenge. “The woman who abandoned me will pay with her life!” But on the path to revenge, he happens to meet her. She brings him hot soup when a splitting headache strikes, shields him when the gangsters come after him, and offers him her sincere heart. “Shen Yanbei, I want to stay by your side.” He thinks she’s an obstacle to his revenge, a bait sent by his enemies. So he coldly uses her, tramples on her feelings, and even pushes her into the abyss with his own hands. Then the truth explodes: his abandonment was part of a conspiracy, he hated the wrong person, and the woman he treated as a “pawn” was the only one who truly cared for him! But by then, she is already gone. Shen Yanbei kneels before her gravestone. In the three months he has left to live, all that remains is soul-crushing regret. “If I could start over, I wouldn’t want revenge. I’d only want you to be alive…” A six-month countdown, a misplaced obsession: he spends his whole life chasing revenge, only to discover at the finish line that the person he should have cherished most was the one he killed with his own hands. This is a heartbreaking romance that will have you crying late into the night. Read with caution!
