Ali, I Don't Like This World

[Rekindled love + reunion after years apart + healing each other] A resilient little white flower versus a rebellious troublemaker. Early on: “school bully × top student,” with a school romance full of tension. Later: “police captain × female doctor,” with grown-up chemistry.

Eighteen-year-old Gu Beici was bold, flamboyant, and willful.

Seventeen-year-old Sang Li was resilient, patient, clear-headed, and stubborn.

When Gu Beici met Sang Li, the carefree playboy reformed overnight and settled into a sweet, innocent romance, leaving everyone stunned.

Just as everyone was wondering how the couple's story would end, they fell apart without warning.

Rumors spread, and everyone thought she was just another girl Gu Beici had let down.

No one knew that, that year, Gu Beici had knelt for a day and a night before the very Buddha statue he cared least about.

“I've never believed in gods or Buddhas, but if you really exist, please keep her safe, healthy, and happy...”

“Even if she's not by my side.”

The once-confident young man was now humbled to the dust, praying only for the safety of the woman he loved.

Then they were apart for eight years.

“So you've stayed single all these years just to save yourself for her?” someone asked Gu Beici, clicking their tongue in amazement.

Gu Beici gave a bitter smile and shook his head.

The truth was, he hadn't deliberately stayed single for anyone.

It was simply that her arrival had made a playboy who once scoffed at love truly believe that perhaps a person had to be with the one they sincerely loved to live a life without regrets.

He hadn't made a point of waiting.

It was just that, across eight years of drifting through a sea of people, countless had come and gone, yet no one else could ever recreate the way she had made his heart race.

This time, he was going to fight for her to the bitter end...