In Another's Palm, Mountains and Seas Stretch for Thousands of Miles

After being reborn, I returned to the night Xiao Ji saved me. I crawled out of the secret passage and saw him on horseback, holding a saber. His voice was cool as he asked me, “Besides you, are there any survivors in your family?” In my previous life, I didn't know my elder sister had taken refuge in a ruined temple and survived. I shook my head and said no, and she later fell into the hands of bandits. Xiao Ji married me to repay my parents' kindness. Then he went south to investigate a case and returned with my elder sister, who was five months pregnant. The man who was always so calm and composed lost control. Xiao Ji thought I'd deliberately kept the truth from him, and hated me for the rest of his life. He hated me for making the woman he loved suffer, and for keeping him from spending his life with my elder sister. Even as he lay dying, he never once treated me kindly. He called me to his side and said, unusually gently, “If there is another life, I won't marry you again.” Xiao Ji never heard my reply. He closed his eyes. Above me, a horse neighed. I looked up at Xiao Ji and said, “There's also my elder sister. She's in the ruined temple.”