Reborn: Absolute Protection

[Reborn | Tycoon × Deaf Genius Painter | Devoted, Over-the-Top Love | Obsessive Possessiveness | Protective Face-Slapping | Redemption | Regrets from a Past Life, Atonement in This One | Public Humiliation | Sweet and Angsty | HE]

He Tingyuan woke up on a beach in winter.

The salty sea wind filled his lungs. Between his fingers was a painting, soaked by the waves: the last thing Xu Xingzhou had drawn. A portrait of him. The ink dissolved in the seawater, and Xu Xingzhou disappeared without a sound, just like that.

He hadn't answered that phone call.

The boy, deaf in one ear and as thin as a sheet of paper, had called him for the last time after the whole world had bullied him.

He hadn't answered.

Reborn, He Tingyuan ground his regrets from his past life to dust and swallowed them down into his bones. Then he did something no one could understand...

He Tingyuan, head of the He Group and a twenty-four-year-old billionaire, personally went to a convenience store late at night and stared for a full ten minutes at a boy crouched on the floor restocking shelves.

The boy was very thin, his wrist bones jutting out sharply.

An old-fashioned hearing aid sat in his left ear.

The cuffs of his school uniform were frayed.

He kept his head down, not even daring to look closely at the instant noodle labels on the shelves.

This was Xu Xingzhou.