[Resilient ray of sunshine × gloomy male ghost]
Onstage, Shen Zhi’s dress was soaked with blood. Her face was pale, and a single crimson spot marked her bloodless fingertips.
Her eyes shone like a sea of stars, and when she looked at him, they were still full of trust and joy.
“I owed you an apology a hundred years ago. In this life, I’ll repay you with my life...” After singing the final line, the beautiful woman breathed her last.
Her hair and arms fell limp, wrenching away the last of Jin Lianzhu’s attachment and stubborn resolve.
The man held her and wept bitterly. “In this life, I came for you...”
The curtain fell, and thunderous applause erupted.
A faint line from the opera sounded in Shen Zhi’s ear: “His sins end with him. Might I ask you to marry me?”
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Shen Zhi was born into a family of opera performers, yet spent her days being constantly put down by her older sister and overlooked by her elders.
When she met Jin Lianzhu, Shen Zhi had just been dumped by her online boyfriend and was drowning in a demanding, difficult job. She was exhausted in body and mind.
He came into her life like a ray of light, transforming her dull, dreary days.
They practiced their craft together, trained and rehearsed together, and ate their way through every delicacy they could find...
She was passionate as fire; he was as steady as a rock.
He became her best friend, her most in-sync partner, and her strongest support.
No matter how much trouble Shen Zhi faced, Jin Lianzhu would smile gently and say, “Don’t worry. You have me.”
Shen Zhi’s career soared, and she won award after award, all thanks in no small part to Jin Lianzhu’s support and help.
But when Shen Zhi wanted to surprise him, he disappeared...
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Jin Lianzhu transmigrated from a hundred years in the past to take revenge.
Back then, the legendary performer Jin Congshan, famous across the land and hailed as the “Grandmaster,” had been killed by a young disciple surnamed Shen.
The Shen family had become a renowned opera family over the past century by stealing his work.
Yet in Shen Zhi, he saw the person he had once been.
She was nothing like the rest of the Shen family. She was gifted and hardworking, and she loved opera with all her heart. She was just like him.
She was resilient and sunny, unafraid of hardship and willing to take responsibility, just like him back then, when he had refused to bow to the Japanese invaders and faced death with his head held high.
She was kind and guileless, trusting him sincerely, caring for him, and relying on him. She made him feel as if he had returned to that turbulent age when he had ventured out alone to make his way in the world.
When he was with Shen Zhi, he felt alive, intoxicated by her sincerity and goodness.
Jin Lianzhu was completely smitten: It wasn’t as if he absolutely had to take revenge...
Theme: The treasures our ancestors left us are the real deal.
