(The rating is low because this was just released, but it'll rise later.) [Reborn Tragic Romance + Mutual Healing + Marriage First, Love Later + Business-War Revenge]
She died at thirty. At the scene of the car crash, lying in a pool of blood, she heard him say, "I love you." It was the first time she'd heard those words in eight years.
When she opened her eyes again, she was twenty-two.
Gu Yanbai handed her a marriage agreement. She picked up her pen and rewrote the terms: "Three years. No renewal when the term ends."
He didn't know she carried memories of the next eight years. She thought he was cold and distant. She thought their marriage was only a transaction. She thought she could rewrite her fate in this life by staying away from him...
Until she discovered the resources that appeared "just in time," the protection that came "along the way," and the figure sitting alone in a hospital corridor in the middle of the night.
It turned out his love in their previous life had been hidden in every "just in time," and in the name "Zhaoning" that he'd never said aloud.
It turned out the business marriage she'd assumed was a carefully laid plan, with him advancing step by step toward her all along.
"Gu Yanbai, will it kill you to give me a hug?"
"Yes." He pulled her into his arms, as if to enfold her into his very bones. "But I'm willing."
"Did you marry me to atone for your sins?"
"No." His eyes reddened. "It's because I love you. I've loved you more with every passing day since you were twenty."
"She thought she'd been reborn for revenge, but never expected them to find their way to each other. He thought he was advancing step by step, but never expected to fall into a fate from which there was no escape."
