Song Zhiyi died once.
In her previous life, on her eighteenth birthday, her stepsister brought her a bowl of “tonic soup,” and she drank it with a smile. Three days later, her throat was ruined and she could no longer speak. Her stepsister put on her white dress and sang the Russian song their mother had taught her, impersonating her to marry the man who should have been Song Zhiyi’s: Gu Tingshen, the future business legend. Her stepmother then locked her away in a sanatorium for eighteen years under the pretense of “treatment.” Shortly before she died, she saw Gu Tingshen being interviewed on television. He said, “My one regret in life is that I never found the girl who sang a Russian song by the river.”
She died with her eyes open.
When she opened them again, it was the summer of 1985. She was eighteen, her voice was intact, and she had yet to drink the soup.
She poured the poisoned soup over the carefully tended white lotus her stepsister cherished. Then she said, each word clear and deliberate, “Little sister, I’ll remember the taste of this soup for the rest of my life.”
Reborn, she has three things to do: protect her voice and take the stage that should have been hers; tear off her stepmother’s mask of virtue and uncover the truth about her mother’s death; and make sure the man who waited for her by the river his whole life doesn’t mistake someone else for her this time.
But revenge is never easy. Her stepmother drugs her in secret, while her stepsister openly imitates everything about her: the white dress, her singing voice, even her identity. Her father watches in silence, allowing it all to happen. The only people she can rely on are her memories of her past life and a destitute young man who makes a living painting for others on the street.
Gu Tingshen still doesn’t know that the “girl of his dreams” he has searched for all these years is right in front of him.
And she doesn’t know that the old brooch her mother left behind conceals a secret even greater than her rebirth.
Given another life, she won’t be
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