For the Rest of My Life: He Waited Twenty-Two Years for Me

Name: For the Rest of My Life: He Waited Twenty-Two Years for Me
Author: South of the Small Town

余生为期：他等了我二十二年

by South of the Small Town (小城以南)

Status: Completed
Length: 180k Words
Genre: Modern Romance
Subgenre: Youth Sweet Romance
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School life / Winning her back / Sweet and angsty / Reunited after a breakup / Both leads are virgins The year Bai Xiaoxiao died, she was twenty-seven. She died of an incurable illness, but she lied to Gu Sinian and told him she had fallen in love with someone else. On the day they signed the divorce papers, Gu Sinian's hand shook as he wrote his name on the agreement. He didn't try to stop her. What he didn't know was that every step Bai Xiaoxiao took after turning away from him brought her closer to death. When she opened her eyes again, Bai Xiaoxiao was back at seventeen. Determined not to repeat the past, she decided to keep her distance from Gu Sinian this time. After her rebirth, she went out of her way to avoid him: taking detours to school, pretending to be cold, and pushing him toward other girls, all because he didn't know she wouldn't live long enough to grow old. But the look in Gu Sinian's eyes was not one a seventeen-year-old boy should have. It was deep and restrained, filled with an aching devotion. Later, Bai Xiaoxiao learned that Gu Sinian had returned to the past too. He had come back with memories of the twenty-two years he spent living alone in this world after she died. Hearing this, she faltered for a moment, then suddenly understood. Looking straight into his eyes, she said calmly, “Gu Sinian, everyone has their own road to walk. No one is indispensable to anyone else.” Gu Sinian's gaze shifted, and a complex emotion crossed his face. “And how do you know that my road will be all sunshine if I leave you?” Later, when Bai Xiaoxiao received an anonymous threatening text, she learned that someone had arranged her death in her previous life. This time, she didn't want to let go. She would face every obstacle with Gu Sinian.

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