Back to the Days When I Was a Powerful Man's Stray Cat

| A down-and-out, obsessive boy and a bright, resilient girl |

The year Lin Xianjing transferred to Maicheng No. 2 High School, her classmates were always teasing her about her and Qin Mu.

Qin Mu had been at the top of his grade for years. He was strikingly handsome, but cold and quiet, with a detachment beyond his age. As luck would have it, Lin Xianjing's new home was right next door to Qin Mu's.

There was a large courtyard, with only their two families living there.

After evening study hall, they would walk home together, and to everyone else it looked like an unspoken romance.

Her friend whispered to her, “Qin rarely starts conversations with anyone. You're so lucky! The way he looks at you is so gentle. I think he definitely likes you a little, baby.”

Lin Xianjing shook her head and answered firmly, “We could never be together.”

No one knew that she had been reborn.

In her previous life, her father had been gravely ill, and she had no choice but to stay by Qin Mu's side for five whole years. During those five years, Qin Mu never got angry with her, nor did he show her what he liked or how he felt. Lin Xianjing felt like a butterfly specimen locked in a box, cut off from every sign of life.

After her father died, she was consumed by grief. Qin Mu, meanwhile, went mad trying to save her.

On the day she left the hospital, Qin Mu asked her, “Lin Xianjing, is there no one in this world you care about?”

For some reason, she saw pain he could barely conceal in those usually distant eyes.

She thought Qin Mu would keep her trapped like that for the rest of her life, but he died.

He died of an illness. The news was kept so secret that Lin Xianjing was the last to hear of his death.

What was that supposed to mean?

When Lin Xianjing opened her eyes again, she was back in her second year of high school, face-to-face with Qin Mu, a miserable mess collapsed at the mouth of an alley.

Kindness moved her to help him up. Since she couldn't avoid him, Lin Xianjing decided to approach him with the intention of teasing him, only to stumble upon the most painful, buried period of Qin Mu's life.

Lin Xianjing hated him and pitied him. Her clumsy malice became the only rain after a drought in his barren life.

“Can I love you?” Qin Mu asked her in this life.

But Lin Xianjing still hadn't decided whether to forgive him this time around.

[Reading Guide]

A slow-paced story, with a light ensemble feel and a small-town coming-of-age story about teenage boys and girls.

Both leads are each other's first and only. The family storyline gets pretty heartbreaking, and one supporting character has a minor romance with another girl.

This is my first practice novel. I'll see it through, though the writing and pacing are still rather inexperienced.

Thank you for reading. If you can, ~(￣▽￣~)~ please add it to your favorites.

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