I Love You, but I Won't Marry You Again in the Next Life

“Chen Mo, if there’s a next life, I never want to marry you again.”

As she lay dying after a car accident, Su Wan finally spoke the words she had kept hidden for three years.

In ten years of marriage, she had stood by him as they went from having nothing to raising two children. She had never enjoyed a single day of happiness, only accumulated debts and a heart full of wounds. Debt collectors blocked their door, their child ran a high fever in the middle of the night and needed a doctor, and she sold her wedding bracelet to scrape together tuition. He was always silent, always absent. After a car accident, she found herself back at the blind date she had attended ten years earlier.

Across from her, Chen Mo clutched an orange-flavored lollipop, the tips of his ears turning red. This time, Su Wan turned and walked away, accepting the advances of a rich second-generation heir. Chen Mo married a female teacher whom everyone else saw as gentle and compliant, someone who never argued.

They had both chosen what seemed like the perfect life story. But only after living through it did they understand: the best marriage isn’t about finding a perfect person to shelter you from the storm. It’s about facing every storm together with someone imperfect...