Bright, charming little darling x brooding, devoted older brother
[Rebirth + Redemption + Devoted to Each Other + HE + Age Gap + Slow-Burn Romance + Sweet Indulgence + Brooding Older Brother After She Grows Up]
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In the eyes of outsiders, Jiang Ye is cold and aloof, a young billionaire executive with a powerful new position, a self-made tycoon who rose from nothing. But no one knows that he devotes himself to a young girl many years his junior. The love he never got to confess was buried in his previous life.
After Wu Yiling's family is destroyed, the obsessive young man takes her in, carefully watches over her as she grows up, and gives her a life filled with light.
But Wu Yiling never hears Jiang Ye's unspoken confession before she dies. She becomes a lingering spirit and watches helplessly as, after taking his revenge, he sits alone in his vast office and kisses a photograph of them together. "Ling'er, I'm coming to join you."
When she opens her eyes again, she has returned to the time before her family is wiped out.
She still has her family, and is the treasured little princess of the Wu family, adored by everyone.
Jiang Ye is still that handsome, tragic boy, wearing a faded black T-shirt, his gaze cool and distant, wary of everyone.
His life is hard, though she never heard him say so. In her previous life, he only smiled and told her it was all in the past.
Wu Yiling swears she'll repay her older brother properly for all he did for her in her previous life.
But Jiang Ye's gaze grows more and more troubling.
Then he pins her beneath him, refusing to let her pull away. Only then does Wu Yiling see the undisguised love in his eyes. "Ling'er, you've been bad. Say that you only want me, that I'm the only one." Jiang Ye's profound love is swallowed up by that hot, humid, rainy day.
Ling'er was the one who first took my hand and promised we'd be together for life, so no matter what, I won't let go.
[For those who like extra-sweet romance, skip to Chapter 40 onward]
