No CP + a female-led power fantasy + reborn + sweet on the outside, dark within + a heroine who grows. Some supporting characters are involved in BL, so steer clear if that's not your thing.
Blurb:
Jiang Zhaoning was only six the first time she met Ning Yuan. In a rainy alley, she protected the frail boy.
But in the end, childhood sweethearts became bitter enemies.
Heartbroken and disappointed, Jiang Zhaoning walked down the street, unaware that someone had already set a trap for her.
She died silently in an “accidental” car crash.
When she opened her eyes again, she had become another Jiang Zhaoning in the same world and timeline: the eldest daughter of the wealthy Jiang family.
Unfortunately, this identity put her in hell mode from the start.
Her spiteful stepmother’s psychological manipulation, her hypocritical brother’s constant suppression, her biological father’s cold indifference... Everyone in this family was waiting to devour me until not a bone remained.
Fine.
Let’s see who the real hunter is.
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Ning Yuan came up to her, his eyes wild with pain. “Jiang Zhaoning, I recognize you.”
“In my past life or this one, what gives you the right to look down on me and trample me into the dirt again?”
So he had known all along. The humiliation and betrayal in this life were his twisted “reunion gift.”
But so what?
By the time the dust settled, I was the sole heir to the Jiang family.
Ning Yuan was like a beaten dog, held down by my people, yet still howling his twisted logic at me. “Jiang Zhaoning! I hate you! You made me this way! That day, I could have rotted in the mud. Why did you have to save me?”
I looked down at him and asked just one question:
“Who do you really hate: me, or the powerless version of yourself who can only prove he exists by hating me?”
