How to Take Good Care of Your Wife After Being Reborn

Haven't decided yet, so here's a little double-rebirth idea for now (have a taste).

This kind of story: [A handsome man who's already gone dark and his delicate, fierce flower of a wife]

Temporary blurb:

[Note: The blurb is a total mess. He's actually pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger.]

Qiyun, a rising star in business circles, is detached and composed, with cool, distant, alluring eyes.

Who could have guessed that his close friend would betray him, his company would go bankrupt, and Qiyun would end up penniless and homeless?

At his most wretched, his sworn enemy, Yu Zhuo, took him in.

Yu Zhuo was in poor health, so Qiyun spent three years caring for him, doing his laundry, making soup, and arranging his schedule.

Even so, he couldn't stop thinking about his friend's betrayal.

At last, as Yu Zhuo watched in panic, Qiyun died of grief and went ahead of him.

Only after dying did Qiyun learn that he had mistaken the identity of the person who saved his life:

The person who was supposed to become his close friend was Yu Zhuo.

The one at his side had been nothing but a cunning impostor.

Watching Yu Zhuo, his revenge complete, hold Qiyun's photo in exhausted arms and cough until he was torn apart, Qiyun closed and opened his eyes, returning to three years earlier.

Everything was as it had been.

Qiyun pretended to fall into his friend's takeover scheme while greeting Yu Zhuo, who had hurried over, with polished courtesy:

"Darling, let's go."

Yu Zhuo had just gotten out of the car and pulled his coat tight. Before he could react, Qiyun, unable to wait another moment, took him by the hand and led him back into the car.

On the surface, Qiyun was still as composed and elegant as ever. In reality, he had prepared a huge trap of a contract for them.

*

The friend, having been outmaneuvered, came to demand an explanation.

Dressed in a suit, Qiyun looked elegant and carefree, his eyes full of confidence in his own schemes. "I'm terribly sorry, but your methods were simply too crude..."

"...I was completely at your mercy."

Qiyun changed his tune, lowered his head, and shed crocodile tears.

Friend: "?"

The next moment, a soft, delicate voice came from behind him, though its words were chillingly dark: "Who let you in? Threatening him? Are you looking to die?"

*

Yu Zhuo had loved Qiyun for a long time.

His health was poor, and he believed his own personality was twisted and vicious, impossible to like. He and Qiyun, who was like the bright moon, were worlds apart.

He had grown used to looking up at Qiyun from a dark corner, but then an unexpected chance let him stay by Qiyun's side.

And in doing so, he became an accomplice in Qiyun's death.

Reborn, Yu Zhuo once again sheltered Qiyun, but gave him tremendous freedom.

Because of his health, he had to bring his revenge plan forward.

Fortunately, a mysterious partner helped him, and the accelerated revenge plan went exceptionally smoothly.

He dealt with everyone who had caused Qiyun's death in his previous life.

The last person left... was himself.

Yu Zhuo's face was pale, and he couldn't stop coughing. "Mr. Qi, you're free."

"..."

Qiyun brushed the loose hair back from his forehead, wiped away the tears at the corners of his eyes, and warmed Yu Zhuo's cold hand. "Are you sending me away? ...But our contract isn't finished yet."

The man looked at him tenderly and reminded him, almost offhandedly, "It's a contract of indentured servitude."

Yu Zhuo sensed something odd and instinctively retorted, "It's work, not indentured servitude--"

The pure white moonlight isn't quite right. Why does it seem kind of naughty?

Wait? Hold on, is he that mysterious partner?

[Sweet on the outside, dark within x little madman]

[Villainous couple / drama queen couple]

Bonus scene:

As far as Qiyun is concerned,

Yu Zhuo is too delicate to take care of himself. A gust of wind can leave him coughing all day, and he's always coming down with one illness after another.

Qiyun thinks, "I'll take care of my own wife."

And so he becomes a proper househusband, the kind with a nutritionist certificate.

Once he's nursed him back to health, he'll reward himself with some bedroom time!

Yu Zhuo: "...?"

Reading guide:

1. I want to write this kind of story. Neither the top nor the bottom is a good person.

(That's how they seem to others. In their own eyes, they're simply taking reasonable precautions.)

[But I hope the love between the couple can make them shine: What he did was for me, so it's my fault. He's always the best. This is what it means to be mutual.]

Theme: You take care of your own wife, okay?